History Department

About Us

The Warwick University History Department is one of the largest history departments in the UK. Forty-nine members of academic staff and several members of postdoctoral staff engage in teaching and research notable for its disciplinary range and geographical scope.

The Department has a strong international reputation and high rankings in university guides and surveys, and was ranked first in the UK in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the proportion of world-leading research activity (4*) in the Department.

Events Calendar

Tue 24 Apr '18

4pm - 6pm: CHM-Global seminar: Dr Atsuko Naono (Oxford) CANCELLED

Thu 26 Apr '18

5pm - 7pm: EMECC-CHM seminar: Dr Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge) 'The Vesalius Census: Politics and Reproduction in Early Modern Anatomy'

Wed 02 May '18

4:30pm - 6:30pm: History Research Seminar: 'Siblings in Early Modern England' Professor Bernard Capp (Warwick)

News

Fri 20 Apr '18

Obituary: John Hardeman

Thu 19 Apr '18

Wolfson History Prize 2018

Tue 03 Apr '18

10 questions with Peter Marshall

Tue 13 Mar '18

Dr James Poskett on Classic FM true crime podcast

Undergraduate Study

We have a population of approximately 1,000 undergraduate students. Half of the Department's students are enrolled on the single-honours History degree and the other half of the Department's students are enrolled on various joint-honours and interdisciplinary degrees.

If you are interested in applying for a place on one of our undergraduate courses, please see our Information for Prospective Undergraduate Students.

Postgraduate Study

We have a population of approximately 100 postgraduate students, on both our postgraduate taught and postgraduate research courses. Our new suite of postgraduate taught MA courses was launched in 2016.

If you are interested in applying for a place on one of our postgraduate courses, please see our Information for Prospective Postgraduate Students.

Research

The Department has been awarded £5.1m in research grants and contracts in the past five years, for a wide variety of projects, networks, conferences, and fellowships.

The Department is home to the Centre for the History of Medicine, the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre, the European History Research Centre, and the Global History and Culture Centre. The Department also has close connections with the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, the Humanities Research Centre, and the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies.