I am, I personally find it absolutely amazing, it's everything I wished history was!
The exam board I'm currently studying is split into 2 'units' (as I call them, they might have a technical name). One is women in Athens and Ancient Rome, the other is Homer's Odyssey.
Women in Athens and Ancient Rome is basically what it says on the tin, we study the role of women in Athens first (and only have so far), what was expected of them, what men thought of them, their roles/rights in society, then we have a look at law court speeches and a text called 'how to train a wife' which tells us more about men's attitudes towards women. Then we studied Women at the Thesmophoria, which is a play by Aristophanes and that tells us more about Athenian humour and views of women. If you think of history as the politics of the past, this is more the sociology of the past.
Homer's Odyssey is basically English Literature in another hat. We study the language used, how words/phrases are used to create the desired effect, etc.
It goes very well with English Literature and I would imagine history, though as I don't study history I can't say for definite. I think it'd be quite interesting to a university since it's not particularly common but again, I don't know.
I hope this helps!