Every single predictable thing you’ll understand if you study History
No we can’t recite all the kings and queens of England
A lot of people think History is a dull degree for dull people and that we spend our lives holed up in dusty libraries, traipsing round museums or talking about wars. Which is kind of true. But not everything in a historian’s life is so predictable.
There’s no need for a gym membership when we’re constantly lugging around massive piles of books and notes
Walking home after giving our library cards an absolute hammering is a lot like climbing Everest. All these primary sources got us ready to hit the beach.
Everyone asks us what we can do with a History degree
Errrrrr, studying History actually has mad transferrable skills – we have to be super analytical, solid writers, organised, etc. etc. etc. This stuff is CV gold.
History starts repeating itself in daily life
“Ahaha doesn’t Jack ‘forgetting’ to buy his round really remind you of the 1781 Connecticut Loyalist Tax Resistance, guys?!” Stony faces all round. If this had been our seminar group everyone would have absolutely cracked up.
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We’re not even a little bit jealous of friends who don’t have essays or dissertations – like, not at all
Oh you only have to draw a graph and do a group presentation for your finals? How DIFFICULT. Sorry gtg back to the 15,000 word book that we’re writing, because that seems fair.
We love a good debate, even if nobody else does
It’s just weird how no one appreciates how opinionated we are. Especially after an afternoon at the union bar.
We feel super legit when we use the microfilm machine 
It makes us feel like we’re in a cool old film, even if it does give us motion sickness – millions of words whizzing past at lightning speed while our eyes try to focus fast enough to find the source we’re looking for? Pure nausea.
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We feel 1000 years old every time our tutor refers to us as ‘Historians’
Never mind that we’re sitting in this seminar covered in Adidas, hearing that magic word makes us feel like we should be dressed up in horn-rimmed glasses and tweed blazers.
Trying to find any reasonably diverse module is nigh-on impossible
And everyone will fight to the death to enrol on the ones that we can find. Sorry, but there’s only so much Cold War chat a person can stand.
Watching a documentary definitely counts as revision 
Pictures speak a thousand words, so watching an hour-long doc is the same as reading, like, 50 books, right?
Self-teaching becomes a massive skill
Only having three contact hours a week means that History students are absolute masters of time management. We have to be when lectures are like gold dust.
So we have to read so much it feels like our eyes will fall out of our heads
The prep set by History tutors is no joke. It’s where that library-hermit stereotype stems from. We literally live here.
And we’re sick and tired of everyone asking us to reel off dates
I might just record myself saying “1066” and play it whenever anyone asks me about the stupid Battle of Hastings. Because they always, always do.
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