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History, faculty of arts and humanities

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

Find out about our week of events for Holocaust Memorial Week

Dr Joanna Rzepa, Dr Andrew Fagan, Professor Andrew Le Sueur

07 December 2022

An Essex History student shares her experience whilst on placement during her studies at the University of Essex

Department of History

08 February 2021

Our historians need you to tell your health story

The Body, Self and Family Project team in the University of Essex Department of History are interviewing women aged between 50 and 80 about their everyday health experiences, to paint a picture of how women in postwar Britain tried to stay healthy, coped with pain, and looked after their health.

Professor Tracey Loughran

18 December 2020

Department of History

09 November 2020

Department of History

09 November 2020

Department of History

09 November 2020

History students Lily Davis (3rd Year BA History) and Lauren Young (3rd Year BA History and Sociology) discuss an event held by the Department of History at Essex on the topic of Decolonising the Curriculum.

Department of History

03 November 2020

Dr Lisa Smith

22 October 2020

In this blog, historian Professor Lucy Noakes looks into how the centenary of the First World War was marked and the importance of developing public history projects which uncovered more marginal histories.

Professor Lucy Noakes

06 September 2020

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History, faculty of arts and humanities

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

Holocaust Memorial Week

Department of History: Anca Arhip's work placement

Our historians need you to tell your health story

Meet Student Ambassador: Afroditi Sakellaropoulou

History and Memory

‘Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die’: Why I Chose to Study War

Decolonising the Curriculum in the Department of History

Research blog: What’s for dinner?

Hidden histories of the First World War