Hi, thanks for your comment bewildered.
I certainly don't really dislike geography. I am doing quite well in it, according to marks anyway so I'm wary about rushing into anything. I've checked the final year modules and think there's some scope for studying historical content and I think I could do something environmental history related for my dissertation, though a lot of the history content modules have been scrapped recently. I'd thought along the lines of making this into a good argument for an MA, so it's reassuring for someone else to make that point too, but I'm wary of it being like an Alex Salmond wanting to keep the pound situation- me making a case for it and (probably?) not getting it.

Hi, thanks for sharing your ideas- really. I think I'll contact the admissions tutor again.
Last time he was rather unwilling to discuss anything about accepting me onto the course without having done even half of this one module- I can't think why when it's just one module unless he thought it was a case of me trying to get into a popular course (which it's not a case of as I definitely had the grades).

There isn't a joint honours history/ geography so I won't have that option. This year I took one of the base modules for history (not technically compulsory but basically core for everyone doing history in year one), but I won't have that option next year as the geography dept. says it has to be human or physical geography and that alone.

I thought about doing some history modules by the open university to give at least some background for an MA.

I like modern British (esp. the 19th and 20th centuries), colonial (esp. India) and environmental history, all of them I read about regularly in some way.
I tried changing at the end of the first term but they told me there was a compulsory module which I hadn't taken the first half of, so I couldn't change then. I'm thinking whether I should join in at the second year of a history degree, but I'm a bit worried about the introductory content I'll have missed. On the other hand, I don't want to start again because of the debt and time spent.

I've just finished my first year, so have two more to go. I asked about changing to history after the first term (last January), but they said I would have to re-apply next year if I wanted to change rather than switching at the university.

Hi..
I'm currently studying Geography as an undergraduate and I'm thinking about further study, up to doctorate level, if that's possible, though I would like to transfer to history instead.
Has anyone else been in a similar position/ state of mind? I know I'd have to do an MA in History before starting a doctorate, but would history departments look on me less favourably for doing a different first degree instead of history (most MA profiles have entry requirements saying "history or a related subject")? Is there such a thing as a conversion course to history?
Any answers much appreciated.