Overview
Research training in History at Birkbeck, University of London helps to channel creativity into critical innovatory reasoning. The legitimate authority of original, independent research depends upon persuasive analytical arguments supported by critically evaluated evidence.
Highlights
- Our research is unique in its range across geographical and chronological boundaries. We are the only university in London to include historians, classicists and archaeologists in the same team of academics investigating every period from prehistory to the early twenty-first century. We see the study of the past as crucial for our understanding of present-day society, culture and politics.
- You will gain from working with internationally renowned specialist supervisors in your chosen field of research. You will broaden your range of academic and intellectual contacts and significantly widen your general experience of academic life and institutions.
- There are funding opportunities available for PhD students. In recent years, a number of students have successfully applied for funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council ESRC), Wellcome Trust and other sources.
- We are at the heart of academic London with access to unparalleled research resources. Situated very close by are: the Institute of Classical Studies, with its library, training facilities and seminars; the British Museum, with its extensive collection of classical antiquities; and the British Library, the largest national library in the world.
- We are home to a number of affiliated research centres that actively run seminars, conferences and other events where some of the world's best scholars present their latest research.
Programme Structure
We provide a supportive context for research in the following areas:
- ancient Greece and Roman social and cultural history
- late antiquity
- history of medieval societies and cultures
- British social, cultural and political history since 1400
- French history since 1400
- Italian history since 1500
- the cultural history of early modern cities, especially London and Venice
- the history of ideas from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries
- Russian history since 1800
- nineteenth- and twentieth-century American social and cultural history
- Balkan history and the history of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states
- West and Southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- the history of Japan and East Asia
- the history of modern Germany, France and Italy
- the history of science, medicine and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- the cultural history of death, warfare, race, gender and sexuality
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
- Part-time
- 84 months
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Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
Entry requirements:
- Confirmed (or predicted) Merit or above at MA level, with a distinction in the dissertation.
You will have to find a potential supervisor for your PhD research, and prepare a research proposal.
Tuition Fee
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International
14885 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 14885 GBP per year during 48 months. -
National
4786 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4786 GBP per year during 48 months.
Living costs for London
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Funding
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