Department of History

Welcome to the Department of History
Welcome to the Department of History, ranked 3rd in The Complete University Guide (2021) and The Times Good University Guide (2020). We are a successful, expanding department, engaged in teaching and research across an exceptional range of chronological, geographical and thematic areas.
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Undergraduate study
Our Department offers modules that range from the local to the global. We teach everything from the history of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria through to the making of modern Africa.
Postgraduate study
The History Department is deeply committed to postgraduate education. We have a strong and dedicated postgraduate community made up of MA and PhD students, who organise and contribute to academic activities.
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Department News
New short article for Leverhulme Trust
Giles Gasper and Nader El-Bizri's research programme will transcend traditional boundaries of scholarship in the humanities by deepening the interconnections with the exact sciences and the arts, while considering their intercultural adaptive transmissions through the history of ideas

Durham Historians in Past and Present
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Student blogs
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Find out more about our department, courses and support. Contact us by phone or email below.
Department of History
Durham University
43 North Bailey
Durham
DH1 3EX
+44 (0) 191 334 1048