London is indeed an unparalleled place in which to study history. The History Department at King's dates from the 1870s. It has always been a small department currently admitting about 70 undergraduates every year from among roughly 550 applicants, with a thriving postgraduate community engaged in work for MA and PhD degrees. It achieved the highest ratings in the national Teaching Quality Assessment in 1994 and in the Research Assessment Exercise in 1996. We research and teach the whole of British and European history from ancient Greece to the post-war world.
Special strengths lie in medieval and British imperial history.
In our degree, we try to provide both breadth and depth and a progression between the two. It is rare for groups to consist of more than four students, and they may well be smaller. Lectures are supplementary to the weekly supervision, which is the core of our teaching, and we require a great deal of written work, in the belief that writing concentrates the mind like no other exercise. University students everywhere can often feel that their work is not supervised as closely, and their development monitored as regularly, as they deserve. We have countered such problems and provide a rewarding and reassuring environment in which to progress.