I would also like to mention about the original post, that the university isn't going to stop teaching history prior to 1700. It has decided to no longer train historians in those areas, meaning that they are doing away with the "majors" related to those times. I am not saying this is any less disgusting, but they aren't going to stop teaching everything that happened pre-1700. Sadly they will no longer sponsor scholarship and research into those time periods. And the decision hasn't been finalized, it has been suggested. Right now there are hundreds of students at the University of Sussex who are having a sit in to protest this. Click this to read about the protest