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British history has proved a popular area for graduate students to concentrate in or to take as a minor field. Currently, we offer graduate training towards the PhD degree in the modern period of British history and in the history of the British Empire. Students who wish to study modern British history and/or the Empire will have several options to ensure that they receive a full and comprehensive training. Highly qualified adjunct faculty are available to provide the necessary background in the early modern field, should that be part of the student's course of study. The field of British history is becoming progressively less internalist, and it is therefore increasingly important that students of British history embed their studies in a European or Empire context.   With strong fields in European history and in some non-western areas of history, Maryland is well placed to provide this kind of training.  The basic course for graduate studies is the seminar:

HIST 739 Readings in the History of Britain and the British Empire

Graduate students in the field may be interested in joining the North American Conference on British Studies, which holds conferences and offers a dissertation fellowship.

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