The core of compulsory papers in English history in the Department was defended by the Professor of Modern History, Ken Haley, who retired in 1982, chiefly on the grounds that it gave the degree course
The History Department that emerged in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework as one of the top three in the UK had travelled a long way in the previous half-century. When a dramatic expansion of the
Anglicana ecclesia libera sit…. ‘The English church shall be free.’ The first chapter of Magna Carta is one of the most familiar, if only because it is the first, and routinely cited as such. It