Where military history sits in British universities

Does the United Kingdom place military historians near the bottom of academic hierarchies?

The assessment is that this is probably common, with exceptions including King's College London's War Studies department and several other established groups.

Military historians are judged likely to occupy a low position in many British university hierarchies, although the assessment is not universal. King's College London's War Studies department is offered as an exception because of its research funding and concentration of specialists. Birmingham, Exeter, and Portsmouth also have established groups. A former naval-history post at Cambridge is recalled as having been renamed, probably to imperial history, and as no longer covering naval history. The examples show how a field's institutional position can depend on specialist staffing, funding, and the remit assigned to academic posts.