A Global History in One City
Modern, thriving and quirky, the bustling 21st-century Chester we see today has been built around history. The city's ancient cathedral, medieval walls, Roman amphitheatre and gardens, and the 13th-century Rows, all keep us in touch with Chester’s compelling and important past.
The study of History and Archaeology at the University of Chester, ranges over nearly twenty thousand years; from the hunter-gatherers living in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age through to the fall of Rome and Cold War America. Members of the Department are experts on a wide range of topics and periods, covering early and later prehistory, the Romans, Saxons and Vikings, the Crusades, the Consumer Revolution, the English Civil War, the Holocaust, Genocide, and minorities and migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is a truly global mix of specialisms.
Our historians and archaeologists set themselves the challenge of rooting their own research in the city of Chester itself, to demonstrate how the local history of Chester is undeniably part of a rich and dynamic global history.
Chester's Legacies of Empire
An International City: Chester in the Middle Ages
Viking Age Chester
Roman Chester: Deva Victrix
The Great Siege of Chester
Our Courses
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- UCAS Code
- FV44
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 3 years
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- UCAS Code
- VV14
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 3 years
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- UCAS Code
- VV15
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 4 years
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- UCAS Code
- V400
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 3 years
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- UCAS Code
- V401
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 4 years
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- UCAS Code
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
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- UCAS Code
- Start date
- October
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
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- UCAS Code
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
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- UCAS Code
- L21V
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 3 years
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- UCAS Code
- L2VF
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 4 years
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Explore global history and develop your French language skills on Chester’s History and French BA, with specialist teaching, tailored modules, placements, and a year abroad.
- UCAS Code
- VR11
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 3 years
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Explore global history and develop your Spanish language skills on Chester’s History and French BA, with specialist teaching, tailored modules, placements, and a year abroad.
- UCAS Code
- VR12
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 3 years
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- UCAS Code
- V100
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 3 years
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- UCAS Code
- V101
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Duration
- 4 years
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- UCAS Code
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
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- UCAS Code
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
pin_drop Exton Park, Chester
- UCAS Code
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
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- UCAS Code
- Start date
- October 2026
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
