Students in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies have recently set up MEMSlib, a digital library of medieval and early modern resources, databases, … Read more
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Kent historians feature on History Hit podcasts
Several new episodes of the History Hit podcast How and Why History feature scholars from the University of Kent’s School of History discussing important events from … Read more
Meet the Historians: Dr Mario Draper
Our latest Q&A is with Dr Mario Draper. Mario, a Kent History graduate, is the author of The Belgian Army and Society from Independence to … Read more
Meet the Historians: Dr Erik Mathisen
This is the first in a series of interviews with academics in the School of History we’ll be sharing over the summer months. Our maiden … Read more
Ulf Schmidt discusses biowarfare and Covid-19 in podcast
The School of History’s Ulf Schmidt, Professor of Modern History, was recently interviewed on Rear Vision, a podcast for Sydney’s ABC Radio that seeks to … Read more
Standing together
Dr Juliette Pattinson, Head of the School of History, shares an important message in relation to current conversations about the Black Lives Matter movement and … Read more
Dr Ben Marsh on the failure of silk in early America
Dr Ben Marsh, Reader in History, has just published Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500-1840, with Cambridge University Press. Ben teaches a number … Read more
Holocaust Memorial Day 2020: School of History talk
For Holocaust Memorial Week, Ellis Spicer, a doctoral student in the School of History, organised an event with a survivor’s daughter, Julia Burton, speaking very … Read more
Remembering rationing
Head of School Dr Juliette Pattinson looks back at one of Britain’s most memorable domestic policies during the Second World War. Eighty years ago this … Read more
Kent History of Oral Health Project presents at annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM)
Helen Franklin, Project Officer for ‘Oral Health Inequalities, Oral Health Cultures in England 1870-1970’, reports on her trip to the Australian and New Zealand Society … Read more