A Global History in One City

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.