Staff profiles
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History and American Studies Staff
There are also visiting American lecturers who contribute to the programmes from Colleges and Universities in Illinois, Missouri and New York
All lecturers in the Department are working historians, active in research and publication, as well as enthusiastic teachers of History. The Department hosts a thriving postgraduate research community and there are opportunities to enrol for an MA by dissertation or for the MPhil/PhD programme.
Some of the many areas of research covered by experts in the History Department include medieval history, English Social and Economic History 1550-1870 (especially crime, urban history and popular protest), Early Modern History of Kent, the English Civil Wars, the Northern Ireland Conflict, British Foreign Policy since the 1930s, and Post-War International History.
Publications by members of the department include: