Cambridge History Faculty

Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

We are one of the largest history departments in the world. We are consistently ranked among the top three History departments in the UK and worldwide. 

Cambridge History is shaped and inspired by the transformative potential of historical research and teaching. We sustain a space for rigorous inquiry and innovation that drives scholarship and intellectual debate. History foregrounds change, contingency and complexity, and teaches skills of imagination, empathy and critical thinking. 

For today’s researchers and tomorrow’s leaders, we provide an education that deepens public life and shapes the future, by expanding our sense of the possible.

Cambridge provides unique opportunities for an intensive, personally-crafted education for historians, with an emphasis on small group teaching, critical challenge and analysis of evidence. It offers a rich environment of archives, museums and heritage sites.