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

Based at the Centre for the History of the Sciences, and working in partnership with the Science Museum, the Metropolitan Science research project is funded … Read more

Since the beginning of Spring term, we have had the opportunity to catalogue a range of historic surgical and medical items for Dr Claire Jones … Read more

Having chosen Kent for the quality of its research and a love for the campus, Steve Tough studied History and graduated in 2013. He is … Read more

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Julia Burton from the ’45 Aid Society spoke on Friday 31 January in Rutherford Junior Common Room about the experiences … Read more

The School of History has launched its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), entitled ‘From Waterloo to the Rhine: The British Army 1815-1945’, which explores … Read more

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

In the tenth century, Latin authors in Britain had a habit of using particularly unusual and obscure vocabulary in their texts. Some of these words … Read more

Labour migration has been of crucial importance in southern Africa for centuries, with large numbers of people having moved across the region to mines, farms … Read more