History top in two UK league tables
The School of History has been named as the top history department in the country in both The Guardian University Guide 2024 and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024.
School news
School news
Staff Spotlight: Dr Jessica Purdy
Dr Jessica Purdy is an Associate Lecturer in Early Modern History. Her research focuses on the social history of early modern England.
Postgraduate Spotlight: Zachary Brookman
Zachary is a second-year History PhD candidate researching printing, bookselling, and library culture in the Swiss Confederacy on the eve of the Enlightenment.
Postgraduate Spotlight: Basil Bowdler
Basil is a second-year Modern History PhD candidate investigating the Anglo-Dutch public sphere in the late seventeenth century.
AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship
AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship with the University of St Andrews and The Royal Society: Scientific Grant-making in Britain, 1849-1914.
History in the making.
Second-year PhD student Jonathan Gibson wins BBC Mastermind Grand Final.
Dr Chandrika Kaul on Edward VII.
Dr Chandrika Kaul interviewed for King Edward VII documentary.
Royal Asiatic Society Medal for Professor Carole Hillenbrand
Congratulations to Professor Carole Hillenbrand who was awarded the Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society jointly with her husband Professor Robert Hillenbrand.
Dr Arthur der Weduwen awarded Menno Hertzberger Aanmoedigingsprijs
Dr Arthur der Weduwen for being awarded the sixth Menno Hertzberger Aanmoedigingsprijs for his first book, Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (Brill, 2017)