The department has over twenty full-time staff, with expertise in a wide range of historical approaches. Our core expertise is in the social, economic and political history of modern Britain, Europe and the USA, but this is complemented by a variety of historical approaches, from intellectual history to the history of science, a geographical scope that encompasses both African and Asian history, and historical depth that goes back many centuries.
All our staff are actively engaged in historical research, writing the books and articles that we and are colleagues around the world will be reading and teaching in the future. The department has several research centres and runs a weekly seminar series. It is host to the internationally renowned Newton project, publishes the Journal of Contemporary History and belongs to several major research networks.
We teach a variety of innovative courses, at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The Sussex history degree gives students an understanding of wide variety of historical periods and topics, together with the conceptual tools they need to analyse the past and to apply that understanding to the issues we face now and in the future.
Sussex history students come from many different age groups and backgrounds, and from all over the world. They run their own active history society as well as taking part in the intellectual and social life of the wider university.