Understanding the past provides a compass that helps you navigate the present and shape the future. Regardless of geographic area or time period, studying history provides an unrivalled basis for making sense of an increasingly complex and unstable world. The analytical and communication skills that history teaches are also keys for entry to a wide range of rewarding careers. Many of these - such as research, teaching, journalism, public policy, diplomacy, and the heritage and museum sectors - are also among those least likely to be overtaken by historical change themselves, in the form of automation or artificial intelligence. <br>Above all, History investigates human societies across time and space - few things are more fascinating. Studying History is about questioning the past imaginatively. Historians take nothing for granted: they search behind the façade of the present to uncover multiple 'truths' about the past. Yet History is also firmly grounded in the realities of daily life, and studying History helps prepare you for almost any conceivable career. In the rapidly changing world of the 21st century, it is more important than ever to understand human diversity and the complexity of social structures, and to understand why they change. Because of its broad-ranging nature, no discipline is better suited to this task than History. The historian's skills of research, analysis, synthesis and communication are also essential in the modern job market. History graduates work in a range of exciting fields that are as diverse as history itself.