School of History
Postgraduate study
Postgraduate community
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We run several seminar series throughout the academic year that you can contribute to or attend. Research postgraduates and academics from universities nationally and internationally give papers on a wide range of topics: American, Renaissance and Early Modern, Eighteenth Century, Modern Economic and Social History, Colonial, Military and South Asian. Seminars are followed by refreshments and attendees often go on for a meal together.
Postgraduate opportunities
Alongside the School's research seminars, our postgraduates run a Historians' Workshop. This group meets regularly and provides a place for you to get together where you can talk with each other about your work or give a short paper.
Postgraduates organise and contribute to an annual White Rose Postgraduate Conference, combining students from Leeds, York and Sheffield. Postgraduate students from all of the White Rose universities give formal papers and staff are invited to attend.
At the end of the first semester of the taught MA programmes, students from the different MA schemes explore together the nature and techniques of historical research in a 2-day conference where students present papers outlining their dissertation project. Similarly, all PhD students convene a postgraduate colloquium at the end of their first year to give papers on their work so far. All are welcome to attend both events.
History Society
The History Society recently won the award for Best Departmental Society. It's run by 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students who organise: social events where they frequently book out a room and bar; day trips to places of historical interest; an annual summer holiday, which in the past has included cities such as Amsterdam, Prague and Krakow. They also put on film nights and a Christmas Ball and have numerous sports teams including 5 and 11 a-side football, netball and rugby and will give financial support to society members who wish to establish new teams in any sport.