History
REF 2021
We're 6th in the UK for research in History
*based on our Grade Point Average (GPA) in REF 2021
€1.8 million European Research Council grant for project
Average-Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
€1.6 million European Research Council grant for project
Forms of Labour: Gender, Freedom and Experience of Work in the Preindustrial Economy
Spotlight on: Decolonising History
We are working to decolonise the way we teach, research, and work with one another
REF 2021
€1.8 million European Research Council grant for project
€1.6 million European Research Council grant for project
Spotlight on: Decolonising History
History at Exeter has a global reputation for excellence in teaching and research, and we feel that understanding our past is fundamental to comprehending the contemporary challenges we face. We are proud to be one of the leading research centres for History in the UK, with a diverse academic faculty of over 65 staff across both our Streatham Campus in Exeter, and our Penryn Campus in Cornwall.
In our Department, our students and friendly, approachable staff work together, driven by curiosity and inspired by a shared passion for History. Our mission is to research and educate ourselves and others about the past and its present legacies. We aim to develop and pass on the highest standards of rigour and excellence that characterise our discipline at its best.
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