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Read our 2024 history careers guide. We're talking jobs as a history graduate, careers in the history sector, is a degree in history really worth it? How will your degree help you in a challenging jobs marketing, and how your skills could prepare you for a career in both traditional and non-traditional history sectors.
Alexandra Stephens
02 April 2024
Find out about our week of events for Holocaust Memorial Week
Dr Joanna Rzepa, Dr Andrew Fagan, Professor Andrew Le Sueur
07 December 2022
An Essex History student shares her experience whilst on placement during her studies at the University of Essex
Department of History
08 February 2021
The Body, Self and Family Project team in the University of Essex Department of History are interviewing women aged between 50 and 80 about their everyday health experiences, to paint a picture of how women in postwar Britain tried to stay healthy, coped with pain, and looked after their health.
Professor Tracey Loughran
18 December 2020
09 November 2020
History students Lily Davis (3rd Year BA History) and Lauren Young (3rd Year BA History and Sociology) discuss an event held by the Department of History at Essex on the topic of Decolonising the Curriculum.
03 November 2020
Dr Lisa Smith
22 October 2020
In this blog, historian Professor Lucy Noakes looks into how the centenary of the First World War was marked and the importance of developing public history projects which uncovered more marginal histories.
Professor Lucy Noakes
06 September 2020