The Department of History at King’s has long been an internationally renowned centre for the study of women and gender. Deeply committed to an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach, colleagues come to the subject through histories of work, sexuality, feminism, emotions, language, religion, law, and policed bodies.

Standout publications include Laura Gowing’s Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-century England, Hannah Dawson’s Penguin Book of Feminist Writing, and Alana Harris’s work on a global history of abuse in Catholic settings.