School of History
Research in History
Projects
View pages in this documentSome examples of the key externally-funded projects under way within these groups include:
In History of Medicine and Public Health we examine the demographic history of East Africa; psychiatric interventions in white Kenya; death and urban decay in the early modern Venice; religion and medicine in medieval Portugal; nursing in the First World War.
In Identity, Power and Protest we explore colonial and post-colonial citizenship in India and Pakistan; incarceration cultures in north America; patterns of activism and protest in modern America; slavery in the British Raj in India and Britain's experience of empire.
In Urban History and Urbanities we work on the nature of individuality in the European city and property rights under communist rule; and faith in the English city.
In War and Peace we have people working on European defence policy; experiences of population transfer; soldiers and soldiering in the Napoleonic Wars; commonalities and differences in surrender; and atrocities in Europe.
In History of Enterprise and Cultures of Consumption we analyse labour movements; business organisation; fashion and food and have developed a specific partnership with Marks and Spencer.
In Medieval Europe we assess the nature of the historiography of the medieval period and its manipulation in the modern world; international religious organisation and local pieties; the crusades and identities. We run one of the world's largest International Medieval Conferences.
We are grateful to our funders: the AHRC; the Wellcome Trust; the Leverhulme Trust; the British Academy; the Economic and Social Research Council and the Economic History Society.