Department Name Department of History
Institution Name University of Sheffield

Departmental Information
Department Profile The Department of History is one of the most active centres for teaching and historical research in the UK. Our teaching has been rated as ‘Excellent’ by the Quality Assurance Agency, the only nationally recognised guide to the quality of a Department’s teaching. The Department of History combine this with an excellent record in research. This was recognised in the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises in both of which we were awarded a grade of 5. In the 2008 exercise The Department of History were in tenth position nationally ranked by the proportion of our research judged ‘world-leading’: 35% of our research was judged to be in this category (4*), and 30% to be internationally excellent (3*).
Faculty Teaching Staff Dr. Philippa Hardman; Dr. Andreas Önnerfors;
Special Resources Papers of Professors Hans Krebs, Ernest Finch and Arthur Hall; Hartlib Papers; 18th- and 19th-century medical books and journals

Course & Degrees
Taught Postgraduate Courses MA in Historical Research
Research Degrees PhD

Contact Details
Postal Address The Department of History, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield S3 7RA
Phone +44 (0114) 222 2555
Fax +44 (0114) 222 2576
Email [email protected]
Website http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/