Taught programmes

• Modern History - MA
• Modern History (Paris Option)
• History of Science, Medicine, Environment and Technology - MA
• War, Media and Society - MA
• Science, Communication and Society - MSc
• War Studies - MA

Research programmes

• History - MA, MPhil, PhD
• Cartoons and Caricature - MA, MPhil, PhD
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine - MA, MPhil, PhD

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 its own dynamic history, 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 most recent 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.

The resources for historical research at Kent are led by the University's Templeman Library: a designated European Documentation Centre which holds specialised collections on slavery and anti-slavery, and on medical science. The Library has a substantial collection of secondary materials to back-up an excellent collection of primary sources including the British Cartoon Archive, newspapers, a large audio-visual library, and a complete set of British Second World War Ministry of Information propaganda pamphlets.

The School has a dedicated Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War, which has a distinctive archive of written, audio and visual propaganda materials, particularly in film, video and DVD. Locally, students have access to: the Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archive (a major collection for the study of medieval and early modern religious and social history); the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone; and the National Maritime Collection at Greenwich. In addition, Kent is within easy reach of the country's premier research collections in London and the national libraries in Paris and Brussels.

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School of History
Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK
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