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 Welcome to the Department
We’re concerned with the local and the global, and teach and
write about everything from households and communities in Essex to witchcraft
in Germany, from the history of disease to the culture of death, from the
history of laughter to state surveillance, from slaves in the Americas to
aristocrats in early modern France, from revolutions in England, China and
Russia to the struggle for racial equality in South Africa and the United
States.
In addition to our BA in History, we offer a range of
undergraduate degrees that
reflects our strengths in modern history, including British and European, US
and Latin American, social and cultural, and film history. Our
postgraduate
schemes include MAs and Diplomas in social and cultural history, local and
regional history, gender, class and race; war, experience and memory.
The Department also offers a range of
Local History courses.
Why Study History at Essex?
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RAE Results 2008: The
Department of History is placed second in the UK, only behind Imperial
College London - an accolade for the ground breaking research that is done
in the Department. In the national Research Assessment Exercise, 35
per cent of our research was ranked as ‘world-leading’ and a further 35 per
cent as ‘internationally excellent’.
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The second best student
satisfaction rating in the UK with 99%.
The National Student Survey 2008 found that 99% of History students at
Essex were overall satisfied with the quality of their course.
(source: www.unistats.com)
Latest News
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Flight and Expulsion: German Refugees after World
War II. A talk by
Dr Rainer Schulze on
Monday 8 February at the Headgate Theatre, Colchester.
More info ...
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Dr Rainer Schulze
talked about the Holocaust Memorial Week on the "Sunday paper review"
on BBC Essex. Listen to the whole show
here.
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Holocaust Memorial Week at the University of Essex:
January
25-29 has been dedicated Holocaust Memorial Week at the Colchester
Campus, with a series of events put on to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, 27
January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp
by Soviet troops. The events are organised by the Department of History and
the Human Rights Centre. One of the themes this year is the Porajmos ,
or "Gypsy Holocaust". For a full programme, see
http://www.essex.ac.uk/events/holocaust_memorial/
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The Holocaust in History and Memory, vol. 2 (2009)
The second issue of The
Holocaust in History and Memory , a new journal produced in the Department
of History, is coming out now. It focuses on "Bearing Witness: Testimony and
the Historical Memory of the Holocaust", which was the main theme of last
year's Holocaust Memorial Week, and contains articles, witness testimonies
(among them Dora Love, Honorary Graduate 2009 of the University of Essex),
reviews and announcements. It is available from the Department of History
for £10.00/copy, with a special student rate of £8.50/copy).
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Local
History Courses starting in January 2010:
(more
details)
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New Postgraduate Degree Schemes
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Essex historians receive
prestigious award
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History graduate receives
prestigious Silberrad scholarship
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