Prospective students might enjoy these as an introduction to the History and Politics course but don’t worry – if we invite you for interview, we won’t expect you to have read them all!
- Richard Evans, In Defence of History (1997; paperback edition, 2001)
- John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2004)
- David Cannadine (ed.), What is History Now? (2002)
- Ulinka Rublack (ed.), A Concise Companion to History (2012)
- Stefan Berger et al. (eds.), Writing History: Theory and Practice (2003; second edition, 2010)
- Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists (2016)
- Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics (1962 and subsequent editions)
- Russell Dalton, Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies (1996 and subsequent editions)
- Iain McLean, Public Choice: An Introduction (1987)