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German, Italian and Austrian history 19th / 20th centuries; History of International Relations; Military history of the First and Second World Wars; Naval and Atlantic History View full profile
Chair in Early Modern British History View full profile
Twentieth century Spanish history; the Spanish Civil War; the Francoist repression; humanitarianism and the Spanish Civil War. View full profile
Lecturer in International History and Politics View full profile
Chair of International History and Politics View full profile
Early modern Italy; cultural, religious and urban history; history of medicine. View full profile
Medieval ecclesiastical history 8th-13th century (particularly England); clergy; bishops and episcopal administration; charters; forged charters; historical writing. View full profile
The Italian Renaissance; Florentine history; 15th-century Italian historiography; Renaissance education. View full profile
History of capitalism; history of innovation; consumer culture in comparative perspective; history of design, fashion, colour, and retailing. View full profile
Lecturer, IMS and Project Editor, International Medieval Bibliography. View full profile
Emma Cavell, Lecturer in Medieval History & Tutor for Women Students
E.Cavell@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 34 33585
Lecturer in Medieval History & Tutor for Women Students View full profile
Politics, government, and the constitution in early and mid Tudor England View full profile
Radical and labour movements in Britain (late 18th & 19th century); Agrarianism and land reform (late 18th to 20th century); The history of environmentalism (mid-20th century); View full profile
Teaching Fellow View full profile
Modern Indian History; the colonial state and the end of empire View full profile
Kate Dossett, Senior Lecturer in American History; Director of Taught Postgraduate Studies
k.m.dossett@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 34 33288
Women's and Gender History; U.S. History; African American Cultural History; The Harlem Renaissance; Black Theatre. View full profile
Modern African History; Imperial History; Demographic History; Medical History; Environmental History View full profile
Matthew Frank, Associate Professor in International History
m.frank@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 34 34470
20th Century European History, esp. Central and Eastern Europe; Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War; Politics of forced migration: ethnic cleansing and population transfers; View full profile
Anglo-Australian Naval Relations and Co-operation, 1945-75 View full profile
Modern Indian History; Hindu nationalism, the Congress in north India, corruption/anti-corruption and the state in India, 'Criminal/Denotified Tribes' View full profile
Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Yorkshire and the North; Religious history View full profile
History of the United States; the American South; the civil rights movement; post-1945 social and political history View full profile
Early Modern Intellectual and Cultural History; The Scientific Revolution; Religious Competition and Co-operation in Europe 1500-1750; Critical Theory and Historiography; Shakespeare View full profile
Modern Russian History; The Stalinist political system; Interwar Europe; Anti-liberal ideas View full profile
Post-Stalin USSR; post-war Europe; political protest and methods of social control. View full profile
British Empire, Kenya Colony. Social history of distressed white settlers and the wider cultural history of settler society View full profile
Medieval British religious and social history 12-15 th c. (particularly the North and Scotland); Central Europe; Cistercian order, frontiers and borders in medieval Europe View full profile
Arts Engaged Research Fellow with interests in the history of fatherhood, gender and the family in twentieth-century Britain View full profile
20th Century British History; the history of the nuclear age; the transnational history of the Cold War; film and history View full profile
War, society, and culture in Britain 1688-1840; Britain’s armed forces; conflicts in the long eighteenth century, especially the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars View full profile
The Normans in southern Italy (and more generally south Italian history 10-13th century, especially social and ecclesiastical); papal history and Italian ecclesiastical history,10th-13th centuries; View full profile
AHRC Post Doctoral Research Fellow, ‘Cultures of Intelligence’ Project View full profile
Colonial encounter between Britain and India; East India Company rule c. 1757-1857; sati (widow-burning), slavery, child marriage and age of consent, missionary activity and missionary writing View full profile
Medieval Iberian History; history of medieval medicine; healing miracles; medieval food and eating View full profile
Jessica Meyer, Wellcome Trust Fellow in the History of Medicine
0113 343 4194
Masculinity and Medical Care in Britain during the First World War View full profile
Alan V. Murray, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies; Programme Director, MA in Medieval Studies and Editorial Director, International Medieval Bibliography
A.V.Murray@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 3433617
The Crusades and the Latin East, Medieval Warfare, Tournaments and Chivalry,
The Medieval Baltic Region
History and Literature of MMedieval Germany View full profile
Guy Perry, Lecturer in Medieval History & Director of MA in Medieval History
G.J.M.Perry@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 34 38543
Lecturer in Medieval History & Director of MA in Medieval History View full profile
20th-century European history, post-1933 German history, historiographical controversies, European memory of WWII, Cold War culture and scholarship View full profile
The history of imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1800s-1980s); The origins and development of welfare states since the 19th century; Transnational links between East and West in Cold War Europe View full profile
Edward Spiers, Professor of Strategic Studies; Faculty of Arts Pro-Dean for Research
e.m.spiers@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 34 33581
Army and society in the 19th and 20th centuries; Contemporary strategic thought; Chemical and biological warfare View full profile
Martin Thornton, Senior Lecturer in International History and Politics
m.thornton@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 34 33600
North America and foreign policy in the 20th century; Imperial and Colonial History as related to Canada and Great Britain. View full profile
20th century Japanese economic history; Economic and social history of Britain and Europe since 1945; Business history; Labour history View full profile
French and European Security; French external relations and military interventions during the Fifth Republic; Peace operations: peacekeeping View full profile
International history between the wars; German foreign policy 1933-1945; Axis diplomacy in World War Two View full profile
The Nazi State; Genocide and ethnic cleansing; Anticommunism in Europe View full profile
Richard C. Whiting, Professor of Modern British History, Head of School
r.c.whiting@leeds.ac.uk
+44 (0)113 34 33618
19th and 20th century British history; Labour history; urban history View full profile
Late Roman culture; Barbarian kingdoms of the Dark Ages: Anglo-Saxon sculpture: Northumbrian monasticism: eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century historiography of the Barbarian Invasions. View full profile