26 March 2013
The Department is offering a doctoral scholarship for three years subject to satisfactory progress. The scholarship is funded in honour of Dr Ian Keil, a former student.
22 March 2013
On 20 March, the Cabot Project Schools Group ran its first 'conference' involving four local secondary schools. This involved fifty selected children, aged 12-13. Their presentations discussed the outcomes of group research projects the children had conducted over the previous six weeks, under the supervision of a dozen History undergraduates from the University of Bristol.
8 March 2013
Dr Chris Heal, who completed his thesis in the Department last summer, has been awarded a grant by South Gloucestershire Council to set-up a Hatters’ Trail. This heritage trail is based on Chris' work on the local hatting industry.
14 February 2013
In a book published this week, Jonathan Saha explores 'Law, Disorder and the Colonial State' in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Burma.
14 February 2013
The Department congratulates Margery Masterson, who passed her PhD viva on Wednesday.
8 February 2013
The Department is offering two doctoral scholarships open to students embarking on PhD research in any aspect of History.
8 February 2013
The Department of History's Past Matters programme is now available online. This year's programme will include public lectures by Prof Mary Beard, Prof Robert Bickers and Prof Brendan Simms.
13 December 2012
Ian Wei has been short-listed for The Longman / History Today Book of the Year Prize for 2013. This is for his monograph Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris (CUP, 2012).
15 November 2012
Dr Jonathan Saha has just published an article in Past & Present, one of world’s leading history journals. The article reconsiders the nature of ‘the rule of law’ in colonial contexts.
13 November 2012
The Department congratulates Richard Stone, who passed his PhD viva today.