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Research income: Over £2 million recently, from the AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy and Wellcome Trust.
Number of academic staff:34
Number of research students:96
Recent publications:
Major research projects:
Partner organisations: Institute of Historical Research • Georgetown University • Jawaharlal Nehru University • National University of Singapore • University of North Carolina. Joint PhDs are available with the National University of Singapore or Hong Kong University.
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History Research
|MPhil/PhD, option of joint PhD with HKU/NUS
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
RAE score: Highest (5*) rating in 1992, 1996 and 2001, and in 2008 60% of the department's research was rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.Research income: Over £2 million recently, from the AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy and Wellcome Trust.
Number of academic staff:34
Number of research students:96
Recent publications:
- Mystery Cults in the Ancient World
- Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages
- Eighteenth Century Ireland
- The Shadow of War: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present
- Thatcher's Britain
Major research projects:
- The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
- Profile of a Doomed Elite: English Landed Society in 1066
- The Fine Rolls of Henry III
- Building on History: The Church in London
Partner organisations: Institute of Historical Research • Georgetown University • Jawaharlal Nehru University • National University of Singapore • University of North Carolina. Joint PhDs are available with the National University of Singapore or Hong Kong University.
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KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Dr Paul Readman
Duration
Expected to be: MPhil minimum two years FT, three years PT. PhD minimum three years FT, four-six years PT. September to September, January to January or April to April.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Our students go on to careers in academia, teaching, the civil service and the public sector.
Year of entry 2012
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