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UEA - number 42...any point in going ?

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I've probably had maybe one bad politics lecture here, the rest have been really good. It's a really nice department, I do not understand why it isn' judged more highly, perhaps because of it's focus on media and politics?

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Reply 21

Skipper

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"

Reply 22

mosesff

Probably not a similar situation but I looked at UEA in the tables 2007-08 and it was 40-50 in CS, now I looked and its 31 or 32nd in CS, big jump and it must have made a dramatic jump. My other choice Sheffield which sits comfortably in the Top 15 I think.

Source : (The Guardian).

Reply 23

Timmaah

When are the 2008-09 tables out?

Reply 24

bfbf

Go to both open days and make up your mind from that not tables. The UEAs is on Friday I will be there haha! Although I think the latest intro talk is at 11am which means getting up very early living in sussex :P

Although I went to a confrence at sussex uni and it was not very nice... :P

Reply 25

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Timmaah

When are the 2008-09 tables out?

The other day :wink:

Reply 26

veggie4life

bfbf

haha i'll be there too. My train from London leaves from 7.30 so i'll be up at six - oh joy

Reply 27

mosesff

I might go to another Open Day and say I'm applying for 08 entry, it would help to get an even better idea I suppose.

Reply 28

Miss Magna Carta

YES - I am now travelling 3599 miles from my home here in the USA to meet with the greatest authority on the planet - Professor Nicholas Vincent at UEA - on both the Plantagenet family and 12^th and 13^th century England. I have downloaded two of his lectures in anticipation of our meeting and from an American point of view – there is not an American medievalist alive today that can compete with his commanding and often witty scholarship. I’m interested in pursuing a Ph.D. – but I am unsure of myself – I have a Mid-Atlantic accent - and even though I have an ancient British lineage – for the past 400 years my family has been living in a regional backwater. How does one prepare oneself? How does one pay homage to Professor Vincent - the “Academic King” of Medieval History?

Reply 29

Miss Magna Carta

Original post by Caspar David Friedrich

Nicholas Vincent is actually a full professor. He earned the title, might as well give it to him :smile:

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Are you into medieval history starchild?

My liege lord, Caspar David Friedrich and My Seigneur Starchild,

Before you shrug off the modest brilliance of Medievalist Professor Nicholas Vincent at UEA, consider my perspective – I am not only the 25^th great-granddaughter of King John of England by at least two women that he molested --- but also the 23^rd great-granddaughter of William de Braose who along with his mother, Maud de St. Valery –were starved to death by my foresaid ancestor, King John. And how do I even know all this?

It’s because of Professor Vincent’s incredible story-telling and “Sherlock Holmes-like” research abilities – that their stories are finally being heard in contemporary English rather than obscure Latin. The point here is that Professor Vincent may be a Medievalist by profession – but by instinct he is an unparalleled ‘hip’ champion of fundamental human rights.

Hence, in my humble opinion – Professor Vincent is medievalist cool!!!!!! And his luxurious voice – even the “Three Witches” in Shakespeare’s MacBeth would turn and swoon with stars in their eyes!

Miss Magna Carta

Reply 30

Miss Magna Carta

Original post by starchild

To be pedantic, he is a doctor now :p:

great lecturer though :smile:

Im a History student and I want to specialise in Early Modern next year, but Im definitely taking a medieval unit.

Reply 31

Miss Magna Carta

Professor Nicholas Vincent is a rare thinking woman’s “Robin Hood” - a princely scholar, a jocular courtier, with a kingly prowess in all matters of history - great and small.

Miss Magna Carta