The Department of History at the University of Bristol is home to a community of more than 60 scholars involved in teaching and research. With such a large group of historians, there is considerable diversity in what we do. Nonetheless, there are three over-arching features which characterize our work as a Department. First, there is the sheer breadth – chronological, geographical and thematic – of topics we cover, stretching across more than a millennium, and including all seven continents. Second, there is real creativity and imagination to what we do, demonstrated in our disciplinary and interdisciplinary work, and our reflections on the nature of history writing itself. Third, our research is outward-looking, directed both into the activities of students and to audiences and partners outside as well as within the academic system.

 

These characteristics translate into:

 

Research in the Department of History encompasses a wide range of historical approaches, operating in both the Arts and the Social Sciences, with particular specialisms in:

 

Close links also exist with national scholarly institutions such as the British Academy, the Institute for Historical Research, the Economic History Society, and other such institutions, and colleagues sit on the editorial boards of leading journals in the discipline.