History

Welcome

The Department of History is now located within the School of History, Art History and Philosophy.

The History Department at Sussex is a stimulating and friendly place to study with a long-standing reputation for innovative, interdisciplinary teaching and research. For nearly fifty years, we have been a leading part of the university and continue to offer a wide range of undergraduate courses that aim to challenge our students and teach them to think critically about the past, present and future. We believe history matters: understanding how we got here is essential both for making sense of the world around and planning its future.
With these goals in mind, the department offers a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees (see the current prospectus for full details) and we also have a lively community of doctoral students working on a diverse range of topics.
The department has an international reputation for research in many different areas, from the history of everyday life, to poverty and social exclusion, gender and the family, environmental history and the history of science, business and international history, and the history of political thought and political culture.
If you want to find out more about history at Sussex, come to an open day, or request a copy of our current prospectus.
 

 

News Dr Ian Gazeley and his colleagues have been awarded £1.1 million by the ESRC for a major project on living standards in post-War Britain. The project, Living Standards of Working Households in Britain, 1904-1960, will involve a major digitisation program that will create an invaluable resource for future scholars.The project was also recently reported in the Daily Telegraph. The Centre for Intellectual History has been awarded a major Leverhulme International Networks grant for a two-year project, entitled "Pact with the Devil: the Ethics, Politics and Economics of Anti-Machiavellism". Centre for German-Jewish Studies film festival News from the Department Weekly Seminars Sussex History Society Recent Faculty Publications Journals Sussex Journal of Contemporary History Sussex Journal of Early Modern History Networks Landscape and Environment of Inter-war Britain Landscape and Enclosure

Research Centres Centre for Intellectual History Centre for Early Modern Studies Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures Centre for German-Jewish Studies Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research Centre for War, Representation and Society Poverty Research Unit Centre for Modern European Cultural History Centre for World Environmental History Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South