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History
Keele historians are enthusiastic, reflective and ambitious scholars whose expertise ranges in time from the eleventh century to the very recent past, and in place from the immediate environment of the north midlands to continental Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa. In the latest assessment of research quality [RAE 2008] 85% of our research was judged to be of world leading or international quality. A quarter of our publications were graded as world leading – the 7 th highest total in the United Kingdom. We support a long-standing, flourishing Centre for Local History and have further shared interests in the history of political violence, social movements, gender, religion and print culture. American historians are part of a strong American studies group whose work is supported by the successful David Bruce Centre. While we work mainly as individual scholars, there are also many examples of fruitful collaboration both within and beyond Keele. Historians contribute energetically to Keele's rich inter-disciplinary traditions through American and African studies, and through sustained cooperation with Medicine, Criminology, Politics and, particularly, English. We run a very full programme of seminars and workshops at which all are welcome: there are regular meetings of the Modern History and Local History seminars as well as the interdisciplinary seminars run from History: Early Modern, Reading and Writing Lives, Science in the Humanities and African Studies at Keele. For further details see the latest programmes. We have a good track record in attracting research council funding for both PhD and MRes degrees and welcome postgraduate students in all our areas of expertise. Please see individual staff entries for further information.
