WHERE ARE THE HISTORY STUDENTS INTERNING?

Where Are The History Students Interning? A September Series Let's talk about something we don't talk about enough. If you studied Medicine, you did clinicals. If you studied Law, you intern in law firms. If you studied Engineering, you had your SIWES. But if you studied History? You most likely walked straight from your final year project into "what next." No internship structure. No clear career pipeline. No one showing you where a historian actually fits into the working world. And that's the tricky part, because History is not a narrow field like Medicine or Law where the path is already boxed in for you. A historian can work in a nonprofit, a government institution, an archive, a media house, as a research assistant, in heritage and culture, in policy, in education. The options are wide open, and for many young historians, that openness feels less like freedom and more like confusion. Where exactly do I start? Who do I even reach out to? That's the gap this series is here to close. Over four episodes, we sat down with history students and graduates who found their way into internships through very different routes, and each of them came with something worth sharing.