Department of History

History has been part of undergraduate courses in UL since 1972, part of taught postgraduate courses since 1987 and a focus of postgraduate research since 1994. History was part of the Department of European Integration and Administration and then the Department of Government and Society. In May 2002, the Department of History was established.

In the academic year 1975/6, as the first cohort of students proceeded to their degree, a total of 120 individual students took at least one module in history. In the academic year 2003/4, a total of 1,517 students took at least one history module at undergraduate level while 167 took modules at postgraduate level. The first MA in Local History students graduated in 1999 and the first PhD was awarded in 1998. In 2004, a total of 18 research students are being supervised by History faculty (see chapter 8). Of these, 16 are doctoral students and two are research MAs. In 2003/4, 40 students took at least one history module at certificate level.