The Department of International has performed impressively in several recent university league tables. The QS World University Subject Table| ranks History at LSE 6th overall in the world, ahead of UCLA Berkley and Harvard. The Guardian's University Guide 2013| awarded History at LSE 2nd place, just behind Cambridge, while the independent Complete University Guide| for 2013 lists LSE in 3rd place, ahead of Durham, UCL and KCL on their History subject table. Both tables also makes clear that LSE history students continue to have the best rate of employability after graduation in the UK.

National Student Survey (NSS) 2013 Now Open for Final-Year Students|

Student feedback is an important part of the teaching process and the NSS gives final-year students a chance to reflect upon their experience during their time as undergraduates at UK universities. The Department has worked hard in recent years to develop its relationship with the students and has trail-blazed a number of initiatives, like essay meetings and exam feedback, within the School as a whole. It is hoped that our third-year students will complete the survey and confirm the positive results of the rewarding work that we all do together as historians.

LSE Undergraduate Open Day| Wednesday 3rd July

We are pleased to announce details of the next LSE Open Day for prospective undergraduate students on Wednesday 3 July 2013.

The LSE Open Day offers you the chance to hear subject talks from our academic staff, meet current students, visit some of our student accommodation, and pose your questions directly to staff from a range of departments, including Financial Support, Undergraduate Admissions, and the Students' Union.

Advance booking is essential. Further details can be found here|.

50 India Scholarships for graduate study|

LSE is delighted to announce that it is making available 50 scholarships to students from India studying a Master’s programme at the School starting in 2013. Scholarships will range in value from £3,000 to £32,000 depending on financial need. Students must be holding an offer of a place on an LSE Master’s programme by 30 April 2013 to be eligible for an award and scholarships will be made on the basis of financial need.

Further details can be found here|.

Award-winning Historian Appointed as Next Philippe Roman Chair|

Historian and award-winning author Professor Timothy Snyder will take up the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2013-14. Professor Snyder is currently the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, specialising in the political history of central and eastern Europe as well as the Holocaust. A prolific author, he has written five award-winning books including Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, which has received ten awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities and the Leipzig Award for European Understanding and was named on 12 book-of-the-year lists for 2010.

Rödder Inaugural Lecture published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|

The renowned German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, recently published the inaugural lecture given by Professor Andreas Rödder at LSE in November 2012. The (German) text can be found on the newspaper's website|, although the article is behind a pay-wall.

Professor Rödder is Chair-holder in Modern History at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and the Department's Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor for 2012-13.

IH PhD Student wins Journalism Award

Nabila Ramdani, one of the Department's PhD students, recently won the 2012 'Best Arab journalist in the West' award at The Arabs Group| Achievements Awards. The Arabs Group is the largest organisation for Arabs in the UK. The aim of the event is to award people of Arabic origin who have excelled in their field or career in the West, contributed to their community or achieved something in the country they live in.

Nabila said: 'This is a huge honour, especially as so many people around the Arab world voted for me. Staff and students at LSE have assisted me in my journalism and I can't thank them enough too.'

Keenan awarded European History Quarterly Best Article Prize, 2012|

Dr Paul Keenan's article, Card-playing and Gambling in Eighteenth-century Russia|, has recently been awarded the annual prize for Best Article in the journal European History Quarterly. The article can be downloaded for free using the above link or from the journal's homepage|.

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