History ranked top 10 in UK
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health
Forms of Law in the Early Modern Persianate World, 17th-19th centuries
Exeter has one of the strongest concentrations of medievalists in the UK
History ranked top 10 in the UK
£4 million Wellcome Trust Centre for Exeter
€1.5 million European Research Commission grant for project
Spotlight on: Medieval Studies
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