UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences

[4] The Chair of Political Economy at UCL was created in 1827 in memory of David Ricardo, establishing the first Department of Economics in England.

[16] In May 2003, a team from the Department of Anthropology published a major piece of research on the possible link between the amount of food that a mother has to eat and the gender of her children.

[19] In May 2009 a major report on the health risks posed by global warming co-authored by Mark Maslin, the Director of the Environment Institute, was published.

[20] In January 2010 Simon Corcoran and Benet Salway of the History Department discovered fragments of the Gregorian Codex, an important Roman law code that previously had been thought lost forever.

[21] The Faculty currently comprises the following nine Departments and Institutes:[22] The Faculty is closely involved with the following research centres and institutes: In the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, UCL is ranked 11th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for Social Sciences,[23] and sixth globally (third in Europe) in Arts and Humanities.