The School of History has a large number of research students studying for the M.Phil or Ph.D. Particularly strong in Landscape, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern British as well as Modern European History, we welcome enquiries in all fields we can supervise.

Our research clusters include the medieval church and state, local environments, the social history of Britain, British diplomacy, Balkan, Eastern Mediterranean and Russian History. All of our students undertake training and go to the events in the Faculty. Next semester's workshop on ‘The Archive' promises to raise some fascinating themes.

One of our current students, Andy Willimott is the postgraduate student rep for the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies. His research on communes in the 1920s has taken him to Moscow where he lived for several months and learnt the language. Andy has so far organized two graduate conferences – at UEA and at Oxford, bringing together specialists from all over the country. He received AHRC funding for the Oxford conference.

We're very strong in the area of modern diplomatic history, something shown by the fact that at the British International History Groups conference in September 2011 the UEA delegation of 9, led by Professor John Charmley (the Head of School and editor of the journal History) is by far the largest from any one university. It includes one of our completing PhD students (AHRC-funded), Jennie Davey, who has just been appointed to a post-doctoral lectureship in History at UEA; these are 10 month posts, appointed by open competition, and are a sign of the School's commitment to fostering young talent.

Our students seem to like to travel. Russian specialist George Gilbert has been spending the summer in the excellent libraries from the Imperial Russian era in Helsinki. David Hall has been looking at European History during the Second World War from the perspective of the British Government and doing research at the National Archives. Richard Mills' work on football since the collapse of Communism has taken him to Eastern Europe. He is a regular columnist for football magazine When Saturday Comes. His work on Bosnia and Serbia has been published and he recently received a grant from the Royal Historical Society to go to a Sport History Conference in Texas. Another of our students, medievalist Lowly Dale, has been brushing up her German to go to a bilingual colloquium in Washington D.C. this year.

Cyprus is a place that has captured the imagination of quite a few of our students, including Yasin Coşkun, Christianne Gates and Chris Sutton.

Christianne is doing research on Anglo-Turkish relations during the Cold War. Her research has taken her to Nicosia, Larnaca and Istanbul and she is the recipient of several prizes and awards for her work.

Postgraduate Research Director Prof Cathie Carmichael is also happy to discuss your plans with you.

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