The groups interests include the following:

• William Gould: South Asian politics 1850-2000; Nationalism and religious violence
• Simon Hall: The Civil Rights Movement in America; Protest movements in America
• Matthew Frank: Communism and Democratic transitions in Eastern Europe; Forced migration and ethnic cleansing
• James Harris: Stalinism; The Rise of the Total State in Europe 1890-1945; Anti-liberal ideas and movements
• Mark Smith: Russia in revolution; the origins of the modern welfare state
• Richard Whiting: Twentieth-century British Politics: state, party and society; liberal thought and its critics in the twentieth century Britain
• Moritz Foellmer: The individual and the state in Modern Germany; Culture, Politics and Society in the 1960s; France since 1944
• Lorna Waddington: The Nazi State; Genocide and ethnic cleansing
• Will Jackson: Empire, State and Society: Britain's Imperial Experience, c.1870-1914
• Andrew Thompson: Apartheid South Africa
• Malcolm Chase: Radical and Labour movements in 19th century Britain
• Holger Afflerbach: War and Political Culture in the early 20th century
• Steve Tolliday: Modern Japan
• Simon Green: Aristocracy and Democracy in Victorian England
• Shane Doyle: Tradition and Modernity in Uganda