The School of History

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As historians, your library is your laboratory. Leeds University Library is a world class research library with over 2.8 million books and publications, and a wealth of manuscript, archive and early printed material in its Special Collections.  The Library invests £5 million a year in developing its collections, and ranks as one of the top libraries within the UK for provision of electronic books, journals and databases. more about our research collections

Undergraduate

• BA History
• BA International History and Politics

Postgraduate Taught Masters

• MA Social and Cultural History new for 2010/11
• MA Eighteenth Century Studies
• MA Medieval History
• MA Modern History
• MA Race and Resistance

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Postgraduate Research

• PhD, MPhil, MA by Research

Spotlight on our latest research

Professor Katrina Honeyman's latest project aims to present new evidence on the factory labour force in England’s industrial development:

'Since the early twentieth century, scholarly interest in parish apprenticeship has focused on the way in which poor children were disposed of by parishes and exploited by manufacturers. It is conventionally believed that parish apprenticeships were 'fictive', serving the parishes' short term goal of removing an unwanted burden but failing to bring any longer term benefits to either the child or the employer. In this project I argue that a significant proportion of these poor children formed the core of the 'new' manufacturing workforce as they moved into adulthood...' read more

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