History attracts postgraduate students from around the world who are drawn to the outstanding research and teaching resources available at the University of Edinburgh. They enjoy a thriving graduate community focused around the Postgraduate Resource Centre in the William Robertson Building. This is a dedicated space that provides graduate students with computing facilities and a space to work and socialize. The Subject Area comprises around 30 full-time members of staff who specialize in the history of Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas from the early Middle Ages to the present. (The School of History, Classics and Archaeology, offers teaching in supervision in ancient history as well.) Most postgraduate applicants come to Edinburgh with a good (2.1 degree/3.4 gpa or better) honours degree in history or a cognate discipline. We offer a range of postgraduate degrees—both research and taught—which are described below. Each of these entails a training element intended to give students the skills necessary to conduct advanced historical research.
