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History, centre for public history

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What careers can I go into with a history degree? [The ultimate 2024 careers guide]

What careers can I go into with a history degree? [The ultimate 2024 careers guide]

Read our 2024 history careers guide. We're talking jobs as a history graduate, careers in the history sector, is a degree in history really worth it? How will your degree help you in a challenging jobs marketing, and how your skills could prepare you for a career in both traditional and non-traditional history sectors.

Alexandra Stephens

02 April 2024

Podcast

This Shining Hour

Join Donna Graves, Sarah Lloyd and Alix Green in conversation with Jules Pretty about contemporary history, public purpose and making an impact on culture and the economy. Donna Graves is a public historian from Berkeley in California; Sarah Lloyd is at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London; and Alix Green is from the Department of History at the University of Essex.

Professor Jules Pretty, Dr Alix Green

16 March 2023

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History and climate change

Research student Michael Sewell explains how understanding history can help us tackle climate change.

Michael Sewell

20 October 2022

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Our Fulbright experience

History research students Liam Redfern, Louise Rodwell and Michael Sewell, from the University of Essex, explain what they learned from working with Fulbright scholar Donna Graves during her residency in Essex's Department of History.

Louise Rodwell, Liam Redfern, Michael Sewell

20 October 2022

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Heritage and climate change

Heritage and climate change

Research student Liam Redfern explains why we cannot understand today’s climate emergency without understanding the historical journey that has brought us to this point.

Liam Redfern

20 October 2022

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Heritage of creativity in the environment

Heritage of creativity in the environment

Research student Louise Rodwell explains why the arts and humanities have a role to play in advocating for landscapes and ecosystems.

Louise Rodwell

20 October 2022

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Finding answers to the climate debate in history

Finding answers to the climate debate in history

Research student Michael Sewell explains how the Suffolk coast and the Long Shop Museum could hold the answers to understanding and tackling climate change.

Michael Sewell

20 October 2022

Vlog

Episode 1: Brighter Futures - Bodies, Hearts & Minds: Using the Past to Empower the Future for Young Women

Episode 1: Brighter Futures - Bodies, Hearts & Minds: Using the Past to Empower the Future for Young Women

With speaker Professor Tracey Loughran

Professor Jules Pretty, Professor Tracey Loughran

06 June 2022

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Does heritage have a role in addressing the climate crisis?

Does heritage have a role in addressing the climate crisis?

Fulbright scholar and public historian Donna Graves explains how heritage and culture sites can be used to engage the public in the debate around climate change.

Donna Graves

26 May 2022

Podcast

Marconi unknown stories of the man who brought us wireless communication

Marconi unknown stories of the man who brought us wireless communication

Listen to the latest episode of the Louder Than Words Podcast to discover the story of inventor and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. Essex historians are now helping uncover new materials in the Marconi archive and finding new ways to engage the community in their discoveries.

Professor Jules Pretty

30 September 2021

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