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History
National ratings
Research Assessment Exercise 2008: ranked 2nd nationally for research quality, with 70% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
History at Kent received a rating of 94% for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2008.
Taught programmes
Research programmes
The School of History at the University of Kent offers a great environment in which to research and study. Situated in a beautiful cathedral city with a dynamic history of its own, the University is within easy reach of the main London archives and is convenient for travelling to mainland Europe.
The School of History is a lively, research-led department where postgraduate students are given the opportunity to work alongside academics recognised as experts in their respective fields. The School was placed second nationally for ‘world-class' research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and consistently scores highly in the National Student Survey.
There is a good community spirit within the School, which includes regular postgraduate social meetings, weekly seminars and a comprehensive training programme with the full involvement of the School's academic staff. Thanks to the wide range of teaching and research interests in the School, we can offer equally wide scope for research supervision covering British, European, African and American history.
At present, there are particularly strong groupings of research students in medieval and early modern cultural and social history, early modern religious history, the history and cultural studies of science and medicine, the history of propaganda, military history, war and the media, and the history of Kent.
Dynamic Publishing Culture
The School of History has an active culture of publishing. Within the past couple of years, books have included: Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Social Russia (Philip Boobbyer); Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts (co-ed Alixe Bovey); Carson's Army: The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910- 1922 (Timothy Bowman); Steady the Buffs! A Regiment, a Region and the Great War (Mark Connelly); The Letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808), Volume I: 1747-1788 (Grayson Ditchfield); Ritual and Remembrance: The Memorialisation of the Great War in East Kent (Peter Donaldson); Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship 1547-c1700 (co-author Kenneth Fincham); The Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church (Helen Gittos, co-ed); The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 (Stefan Goebel); The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770 (David Ormrod); Karl Brandt – The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich (Ulf Schmidt); Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology (Charlotte Sleigh); Engineering Empire: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Crosbie Smith); Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema (David Welch co-ed); Conservation Fallout: Energy and Protest at Diablo Canyon, California (John Wills).
There have also been numerous publications as a result of collaboration between academics within the School, including: War and the Media: The Changing Context of Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003 (Mark Connelly and David Welch); and The American West: Competing Visions (Karen Jones and John Wills).
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