Department of History
- 2nd in the latest Research Assessment Exercise
- 6th in the 2012 Complete University Guide for History, and 1st in both the 2012 Complete University Guide and the 2012 Guardian University Guide for the Department's School of Comparative American Studies
- Awarded £5.9m of new research grants and contracts in the past five years
- 34 permanent academic staff who research the histories of Africa, the Americas, Britain, China, Continental Europe, and South Asia
- The Department hosts three research centres and a research forum: the Centre for the History of Medicine, the Global History and Culture Centre, the Eighteenth Century Centre, and the Early Modern Forum
- Over 600 undergraduate students, over 100 postgraduate students, and over 50 visiting international students
- Strong postdoctoral community, including in recent years 3 Leverhulme Early Career Fellows, 1 Marie Curie Research Scholar, 1 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, 1 British Academy Research Fellow, 2 SSHRCC Research Fellows, 1 CARA Research Mobility Fellow, 7 grant-funded Research Assistants, and 8 Teaching Fellows
