Category: Research

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

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

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

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

Dr John Wills, Reader in American History and Culture, is to take part in this year’s British Academy Virtual Summer Showcase 2020. He’ll be speaking … Read more

School of History academic Dr Mark Lawrence has launched a research documentary with an event featuring a live panel discussion. The Cristero War of 1926-29, … Read more

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

The School of History is seeking prospective PhD candidates to apply for two scholarship projects under the Kent-Lille cotutelle award scheme. These scholarships include fees … Read more

Karen Jones, Professor of Environmental and Cultural History, has published Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane (Yale University Press, 2020). Examining how Martha Jane Canary … Read more

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