‘For Real’: Top Jobs for History Graduates

David Nicholls analyses the potential job market for history graduates.

‘What's the use of that? What sort of job will it get you? Couldn't you do something more useful?' How often has someone said, or implied, something to that effect when you told them you intend to study history at university? What follows will give you the ammunition to answer them. For not only do history graduates enter an extremely wide range of careers, many rise to the very top. As Ali G, just one of many such successful history graduates, might say, 'For real'.

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