Department of History

Find an expert - History

To help you find an expert for PhD supervision or research collaborations, we list our academic staff here under sections relating to period, geographic region, and historical genre.

Please note: Emeritus Professors and some of our research staff, identified below with a star *, are not available for PhD supervision.

Watch a selection of our staff discussing their research expertise 

Expertise by period

Medieval history

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Peter Darby

  • Anglo-Saxon England (7th and 8th Centuries)
  • The venerable Bede and his works
  • Early medieval heresy
  • Early medieval Apocalyptic thought 

Dr Gwilym Dodd

  • Late medieval England (c.1272-1485)
  • Politics and governance          
  • Kingship, authority and dissent
  • Language, ideas and political culture
  • Gentry and nobility

Dr Richard Goddard

  • Medieval England (1250-1540)
  • Social and economic history
  • Towns, cities and borough courts
  • Medieval credit in domestic and international commerce
  • Medieval women

Dr Matthew Hefferan

  • Late medieval England (c.1272-1485)
  • Political and military history
  • Medieval knighthood
  • The hundred years war
  • Medieval chronicles

Dr Rob Lutton

  • Social and cultural history of England (c.1200-c.1600)
  • Late medieval popular religion
  • Heresy and heterodoxy
  • Medieval Church history
  • Memory

Dr Lucy Parker

  • Late antique, medieval, and early modern Middle Eastern history
  • Saints, monasticism, and hagiography
  • Greek and Syriac Christianity 
  • Christian communities in the Ottoman empire; eastern Christian-Catholic relations 
  • Manuscripts and archives  

Dr Anna Rich-Abad

  • Medieval Crown of Aragon (14th century)
  • Social and economic history
  • Medieval Jewish and Christian interaction
  • Gender and medieval women
  • Notarial culture

Dr Claire Taylor

  • The European Middle Ages, c.1000 to c. 1300, esp. South-Western France
  • High-medieval Christian heresy/religious dissent and its repression, c. 1000 to c.1300, especially Catharism and Waldensianism in Southern France
  • The ‘Global’ (Afro-Eurasian) Middle Ages, c. 1100 to c. 1300
  • The Mongols
  • Medieval slavery and unfreedom

Watch Claire discussing medieval heresy >

 
Early modern history

Dr Antonio Salgado Borge

  • Rationalism
  • Empiricism
  • The Cartesian turn in philosophy
  • The Enlightenment
  • Metaphysics of mind

Dr John Condren

  • Diplomacy between the 16th and 18th centuries
  • Cultural exchange between the Italian states and France
  • War and society in early modern Europe, especially France, Italy, and the Swiss Confederacy
  • Protestant identity and the experience of Huguenot exile
  • Military finance and the history of Swiss banking

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Julia Merritt

  • Early Modern English religious and political culture
  • Social and urban history of Early Modern England
  • Early modern London 
  • The relationship between religion and urban society

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Lucy Parker

  • Late antique, medieval, and early modern Middle Eastern history
  • Saints, monasticism, and hagiography
  • Greek and Syriac Christianity 
  • Christian communities in the Ottoman empire; eastern Christian-Catholic relations 
  • Manuscripts and archives 

 Dr Adolfo Polo y La Borda 

  • Early modern globalization
  • Political culture of the Spanish Empire
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Imperial officials
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Mobility 

Dr Liudmyla Sharipova

  • The European Reformations (16th and 17th Centuries)
  • Religion and politics in early modern Europe
  • Book and library history, especially the history of the printed book up to 1800
  • Russian and East European history in the early modern period
  • Polish and Ukrainian history
 
Modern history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Dr Sascha Auerbach

  • European imperialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century
  • History of the modern state
  • Late-stage slavery and its legacies
  • Race and migration in the Global South
  • Legal culture and gender in Britain and the British Empire
  • Chinese and Indian labour diasporas

Prof Sarah Badcock

  • Russian history (1825-1930)
  • Social, political and cultural history
  • Rural and urban lower-class life
  • Prison, exile and punishment
  • Regional histories

Watch Sarah discussing modern revolutionary Russia >

Dr Nick Baron

  • Russian and East European history (20th Century)
  • Place, displacement and social identities
  • Collective memory, commemoration and the popular use of history
  • Spatial dimensions of imperial and state power
  • Representations of space (cartography, film, graphic arts, architecture, town planning, etc.) 

Dr Richard Bates 

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century 

Dr Dean Blackburn

  • Post-war Britain
  • Political ideologies
  • The history of class identities
  • Time and temporality

Watch Dean discussing contemporary politics >

Dr Alex Bryne *

  • United States foreign relations
  • United States imperialism
  • The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • The First World War
  • Pan-Americanism

Dr Andrew Cobbing

  • Modern Japan (mainly 19th century)
  • International relations in East Asia
  • East-West cultural relations
  • Anglo-Japanese diplomatic history
  • International law in the global order

Dr Harry Cocks

  • Modern Britain (c. 1700 - present)
  • Modern France (c. 1815 - present)
  • Cultural history
  • Social history
  • History of sexuality

Dr Richard Gaunt

  • British History (c.1780-1850)
  • Regional and local history of the East Midlands 
  • Politics and Electioneering
  • Biographies, historiography, and ego-documents
  • Museums, heritage and history

Prof Anna Greenwood

  • History of health and medicine (post 1850)
  • Social and cultural history
  • Health humanities
  • British Empire history
  • History of pharmacy

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Prof Elizabeth Harvey

  • Germany (20th Century)
  • Comparative perspectives in twentieth-century European social and cultural history
  • Gender, nationalism and imperialism
  • Gender, war and reconstruction
  • Youth and youth movements

Dr Alex Henry

  • 20th Century military and conflict history
  • Social history of the Second World War
  • Everyday life under Fascist and Nazi dictatorships
  • Coercion and consent in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Arun Kumar

  • Colonial Indian history and global history
  • Social and labour history of modern India
  • Education and the history of socio-economic inequality
  • History of capitalism and commodities
  • Non-work, leisure, sleep, and night-time history

Dr Jonathan Kwan

  • European History (1789-1918)
  • Intellectual history, especially liberalism
  • Central European history, especially Austria-Hungary
  • Jewish history
  • Minorities and nationalism
  • Political history (constitutions, parties, government, administration)
  • Social, urban and cultural history

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Kate Law

  • Twentieth-century southern African history
  • Modern women's and gender history
  • Medical history
  • 'New Imperial' histories

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Spencer Mawby

  • Post-war British foreign and colonial policy and anticolonial activism
  • Theory, practice and history of diplomacy, colonial labour politics and institution-building
  • Late imperialism and early independence in Africa and the Caribbean and the Middle East
  • The history of the Cold War

Dr Tarik Oumazzane

  • Modern and Contemporary Middle East and North African Studies
  • Decolonisation in Africa
  • Regional integration in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Anglo-Moroccan relations
  • Neoliberal theory

Dr Nathan Richards

  • Modern Black British history
  • History, culture and identities of the Black Atlantic Diaspora
  • Race, racialisation and slavery
  • Black communication and memory technologies 
  • Digital history: tools, theories and methods

Watch Nathan discussing modern black Britain >

Dr Martina Salvante

  • Modern European history
  • Fascism 
  • Gender history
  • Social and cultural history
  • Disability history

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees

Prof Jeremy Taylor

  • Modern cultural and social history of China and the Chinese-speaking world
  • Chinese Diasporic communities in Southeast Asia
  • Visual cultures and propaganda in East and Southeast Asia
  • Memory and heritage in East and Southeast Asia
  • Spatial history in East and Southeast Asia
  • Comparative studies of foreign occupation

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War

Prof Maiken Umbach

  • National Socialism, ideology, emotion, and personal experience (ego-documents etc)
  • Photography as a political source; visual culture and propaganda
  • German-Jewish history and history of Jewish migration (1900-1960)
  • Working with museums, shaping curatorial practice and evaluating visitor experience
 
Contemporary history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Alex Bryne *

  • United States foreign relations
  • United States imperialism
  • The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • The First World War
  • Pan-Americanism

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Kate Law

  • Twentieth-century southern African history
  • Modern women's and gender history
  • Medical history
  • 'New Imperial' histories

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Joe Merton

  • Post-1945 United States, especially 1970s and 1980s
  • Political history
  • Histories of conservatism and the right
  • Urban history, especially history of New York City and crime/policing
  • Race and ethnic politics since 1945

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Tarik Oumazzane

  • Modern and Contemporary Middle East and North African Studies
  • Decolonisation in Africa
  • Regional integration in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Anglo-Moroccan relations
  • Neoliberal theory

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War
 
 

Expertise by geographic region

 
European and East European history

European History

Dr John Condren

  • Diplomacy between the 16th and 18th centuries
  • Cultural exchange between the Italian states and France
  • War and society in early modern Europe, especially France, Italy, and the Swiss Confederacy
  • Protestant identity and the experience of Huguenot exile
  • Military finance and the history of Swiss banking

Russian and East European history

Professor Sarah Badcock

  • Russian history (1825-1930)
  • Social, political and cultural history
  • Rural and urban lower-class life
  • Prison, exile and punishment
  • Regional histories

Watch Sarah discussing modern revolutionary Russia >

Dr Nick Baron

  • Russian and East European history (20th Century)
  • Place, displacement and social identities
  • Collective memory, commemoration and the popular use of history
  • Spatial dimensions of imperial and state power
  • Representations of space (cartography, film, graphic arts, architecture, town planning, etc.) 

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Liudmyla Sharipova

  • The European Reformations (16th and 17th Centuries)
  • Religion and politics in early modern Europe
  • Book and library history, especially the history of the printed book up to 1800
  • Russian and East European history in the early modern period
  • Polish and Ukrainian history
 

French history

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr Claire Taylor

  • The European Middle Ages, c.1000 to c. 1300, esp. South-Western France
  • High-medieval Christian heresy/religious dissent and its repression, c. 1000 to c.1300, especially Catharism and Waldensianism in Southern France
  • The ‘Global’ (Afro-Eurasian) Middle Ages, c. 1100 to c. 1300
  • The Mongols
  • Medieval slavery and unfreedom

Watch Claire discussing medieval heresy >

 

German history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Prof Elizbeth Harvey

  • Germany (20th Century)
  • Comparative perspectives in twentieth-century European social and cultural history
  • Gender, nationalism and imperialism
  • Gender, war and reconstruction
  • Youth and youth movements

Dr Alex Henry

  • 20th Century military and conflict history
  • Social history of the Second World War
  • Everyday life under Fascist and Nazi dictatorships
  • Coercion and consent in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Jonathan Kwan

  • European History (1789-1918)
  • Intellectual history, especially liberalism
  • Central European history, especially Austria-Hungary
  • Jewish history
  • Minorities and nationalism
  • Political history (constitutions, parties, government, administration)
  • Social, urban and cultural history

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War

Prof Maiken Umbach

  • National Socialism, ideology, emotion, and personal experience (ego-documents etc)
  • Photography as a political source; visual culture and propaganda
  • German-Jewish history and history of Jewish migration (1900-1960)
  • Working with museums, shaping curatorial practice and evaluating visitor experience
 

Spanish, Italian and Mediterranean history

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Alex Henry

  • 20th Century military and conflict history
  • Social history of the Second World War
  • Everyday life under Fascist and Nazi dictatorships
  • Coercion and consent in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Adolfo Polo y La Borda

  • Early modern globalization
  • Political culture of the Spanish Empire
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Imperial officials
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Mobility

Dr Martina Salvante

  • Modern European history
  • Fascism 
  • Gender history
  • Social and cultural history
  • Disability history
 

English and British history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Dr Sascha Auerbach

  • European imperialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century
  • History of the modern state
  • Late-stage slavery and its legacies
  • Race and migration in the Global South
  • Legal culture and gender in Britain and the British Empire
  • Chinese and Indian labour diasporas

Dr Dean Blackburn

  • Post-war Britain
  • Political ideologies
  • The history of class identities
  • Time and temporality

Watch Dean discussing contemporary politics >

Dr Harry Cocks

  • Modern Britain (c. 1700 - present)
  • Modern France (c. 1815 - present)
  • Cultural history
  • Social history
  • History of sexuality

Dr Peter Darby

  • Anglo-Saxon England (7th and 8th Centuries)
  • The venerable Bede and his works
  • Early medieval heresy
  • Early medieval Apocalyptic thought

Dr Gwilym Dodd

  • Late medieval England (c.1272-1485)
  • Politics and governance          
  • Kingship, authority and dissent
  • Language, ideas and political culture
  • Gentry and nobility

Dr Richard Gaunt

  • British History (c.1780-1850)
  • Regional and local history of the East Midlands 
  • Politics and Electioneering
  • Biographies, historiography, and ego-documents
  • Museums, heritage and history

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

Dr Richard Goddard

  • Medieval England (1250-1540)
  • Social and economic history
  • Towns, cities and borough courts
  • Medieval credit in domestic and international commerce
  • Medieval women

Prof Anna Greenwood

  • History of health and medicine (post 1850)
  • Social and cultural history
  • Health humanities
  • British Empire history
  • History of pharmacy

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr Matthew Hefferan

  • Late medieval England (c.1272-1485)
  • Political and military history
  • Medieval knighthood
  • The hundred years war
  • Medieval chronicles

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Rob Lutton

  • Social and cultural history of England (c.1200-c.1600)
  • Late medieval popular religion
  • Heresy and heterodoxy
  • Medieval Church history
  • Memory

Dr Julia Merritt

  • Early Modern English religious and political culture
  • Social and urban history of Early Modern England
  • Early modern London 
  • The relationship between religion and urban society

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Nathan Richards

  • Modern Black British history
  • History, culture and identities of the Black Atlantic Diaspora
  • Race, racialisation and slavery
  • Black communication and memory technologies 
  • Digital history: tools, theories and methods

Watch Nathan discussing modern black Britain >

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War
 
 
Middle Eastern and North African history

Dr Spencer Mawby

  • Post-war British foreign and colonial policy and anticolonial activism
  • Theory, practice and history of diplomacy, colonial labour politics and institution-building
  • Late imperialism and early independence in Africa and the Caribbean and the Middle East
  • The history of the Cold War

Dr Tarik Oumazzane

  • Modern and Contemporary Middle East and North African Studies
  • Decolonisation in Africa
  • Regional integration in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Anglo-Moroccan relations
  • Neoliberal theory

Dr Lucy Parker

  • Late antique, medieval, and early modern Middle Eastern history
  • Saints, monasticism, and hagiography
  • Greek and Syriac Christianity 
  • Christian communities in the Ottoman empire; eastern Christian-Catholic relations 
  • Manuscripts and archives 
 
International and transnational history

Dr Alex Bryne *

  • United States foreign relations
  • United States imperialism
  • The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • The First World War
  • Pan-Americanism

Dr Andrew Cobbing

  • Modern Japan (mainly 19th century)
  • International relations in East Asia
  • East-West cultural relations
  • Anglo-Japanese diplomatic history
  • International law in the global order

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

 Dr Erin Geraghty 

  • The British and Irish suffrage movement
  • The British and Irish trade union movements in the early twentieth century
  • The interwar women's internationalist movement and pacifism
  • Early feminism
  • Internationalist socialism of the early twentieth century
  • British imperialism in Ireland 

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Arun Kumar

  • Colonial Indian history and global history
  • Social and labour history of modern India
  • Education and the history of socio-economic inequality
  • History of capitalism and commodities
  • Non-work, leisure, sleep, and night-time history

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Spencer Mawby

  • Post-war British foreign and colonial policy and anticolonial activism
  • Theory, practice and history of diplomacy, colonial labour politics and institution-building
  • Late imperialism and early independence in Africa and the Caribbean and the Middle East
  • The history of the Cold War

Dr Martina Salvante 

  • Modern European history
  • Fascism 
  • Gender history
  • Social and cultural history
  • Disability history

Prof Jeremy Taylor

  • Modern cultural and social history of China and the Chinese-speaking world
  • Chinese Diasporic communities in Southeast Asia
  • Visual cultures and propaganda in East and Southeast Asia
  • Memory and heritage in East and Southeast Asia
  • Spatial history in East and Southeast Asia
  • Comparative studies of foreign occupation
 
Atlantic history

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

 Dr Adolfo Polo y La Borda 

  • Early modern globalization
  • Political culture of the Spanish Empire
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Imperial officials
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Mobility 
 
South Asian history

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr Arun Kumar

  • Colonial Indian history and global history
  • Social and labour history of modern India
  • Education and the history of socio-economic inequality
  • History of capitalism and commodities
  • Non-work, leisure, sleep, and night-time history

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees
 
East and Southeast Asian history

Dr Andrew Cobbing

  • Modern Japan (mainly 19th century)
  • International relations in East Asia
  • East-West cultural relations
  • Anglo-Japanese diplomatic history
  • International law in the global order

Prof Jeremy Taylor

  • Modern cultural and social history of China and the Chinese-speaking world
  • Chinese Diasporic communities in Southeast Asia
  • Visual cultures and propaganda in East and Southeast Asia
  • Memory and heritage in East and Southeast Asia
  • Spatial history in East and Southeast Asia
  • Comparative studies of foreign occupation
 

Expertise by historical genre

Black studies and African history

Dr Kate Law

  • Twentieth-century southern African history
  • Modern women's and gender history
  • Medical history
  • 'New Imperial' histories

Dr Spencer Mawby

  • Post-war British foreign and colonial policy and anticolonial activism
  • Theory, practice and history of diplomacy, colonial labour politics and institution-building
  • Late imperialism and early independence in Africa and the Caribbean and the Middle East
  • The history of the Cold War

Dr Joe Merton

  • Post-1945 United States, especially 1970s and 1980s
  • Political history
  • Histories of conservatism and the right
  • Urban history, especially history of New York City and crime/policing
  • Race and ethnic politics since 1945

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Nathan Richards

  • Modern Black British history
  • History, culture and identities of the Black Atlantic Diaspora
  • Race, racialisation and slavery
  • Black communication and memory technologies 
  • Digital history: tools, theories and methods

Watch Nathan discussing modern black Britain >

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War
 
Business history

Dr Richard Goddard

  • Medieval England (1250-1540)
  • Social and economic history
  • Towns, cities and borough courts
  • Medieval credit in domestic and international commerce
  • Medieval women

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)
 
Colonial history

Dr Sascha Auerbach

  • European imperialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century
  • History of the modern state
  • Late-stage slavery and its legacies
  • Race and migration in the Global South
  • Legal culture and gender in Britain and the British Empire
  • Chinese and Indian labour diasporas

Dr Erin Geraghty

  • The British and Irish suffrage movement
  • The British and Irish trade union movements in the early twentieth century
  • The interwar women's internationalist movement and pacifism
  • Early feminism
  • Internationalist socialism of the early twentieth century
  • British imperialism in Ireland

Prof Anna Greenwood

  • History of health and medicine (post 1850)
  • Social and cultural history
  • Health humanities
  • British Empire history
  • History of pharmacy

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Dr Arun Kumar

  • Colonial Indian history and global history
  • Social and labour history of modern India
  • Education and the history of socio-economic inequality
  • History of capitalism and commodities
  • Non-work, leisure, sleep, and night-time history

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica

Dr Kate Law

  • Twentieth-century southern African history
  • Modern women's and gender history
  • Medical history
  • 'New Imperial' histories

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Adolfo Polo y La Borda

  • Early modern globalization
  • Political culture of the Spanish Empire
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Imperial officials
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Mobility

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees
 
Conflict history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

Dr Alex Henry

  • 20th Century military and conflict history
  • Social history of the Second World War
  • Everyday life under Fascist and Nazi dictatorships
  • Coercion and consent in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees

Dr Claire Taylor

  • The European Middle Ages, c.1000 to c. 1300, esp. South-Western France
  • High-medieval Christian heresy/religious dissent and its repression, c. 1000 to c.1300, especially Catharism and Waldensianism in Southern France
  • The ‘Global’ (Afro-Eurasian) Middle Ages, c. 1100 to c. 1300
  • The Mongols
  • Medieval slavery and unfreedom

Watch Claire discussing medieval heresy >

Prof Jeremy Taylor

  • Modern cultural and social history of China and the Chinese-speaking world
  • Chinese Diasporic communities in Southeast Asia
  • Visual cultures and propaganda in East and Southeast Asia
  • Memory and heritage in East and Southeast Asia
  • Spatial history in East and Southeast Asia
  • Comparative studies of foreign occupation

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War
 
Cultural history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Dr Sascha Auerbach

  • European imperialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century
  • History of the modern state
  • Late-stage slavery and its legacies
  • Race and migration in the Global South
  • Legal culture and gender in Britain and the British Empire
  • Chinese and Indian labour diasporas

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Nick Baron

  • Russian and East European history (20th Century)
  • Place, displacement and social identities
  • Collective memory, commemoration and the popular use of history
  • Spatial dimensions of imperial and state power
  • Representations of space (cartography, film, graphic arts, architecture, town planning, etc.) 

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Andrew Cobbing

  • Modern Japan (mainly 19th century)
  • International relations in East Asia
  • East-West cultural relations
  • Anglo-Japanese diplomatic history
  • International law in the global order

Dr Harry Cocks

  • Modern Britain (c. 1700 - present)
  • Modern France (c. 1815 - present)
  • Cultural history
  • Social history
  • History of sexuality

Dr John Condren

  • Diplomacy between the 16th and 18th centuries
  • Cultural exchange between the Italian states and France
  • War and society in early modern Europe, especially France, Italy, and the Swiss Confederacy
  • Protestant identity and the experience of Huguenot exile
  • Military finance and the history of Swiss banking

Dr Peter Darby

  • Anglo-Saxon England (7th and 8th Centuries)
  • The venerable Bede and his works
  • Early medieval heresy
  • Early medieval Apocalyptic thought

Prof Anna Greenwood

  • History of health and medicine (post 1850)
  • Social and cultural history
  • Health humanities
  • British Empire history
  • History of pharmacy

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Prof Elizabeth Harvey

  • Germany (20th Century)
  • Comparative perspectives in twentieth-century European social and cultural history
  • Gender, nationalism and imperialism
  • Gender, war and reconstruction
  • Youth and youth movements

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Lucy Parker

  • Late antique, medieval, and early modern Middle Eastern history
  • Saints, monasticism, and hagiography
  • Greek and Syriac Christianity 
  • Christian communities in the Ottoman empire; eastern Christian-Catholic relations 
  • Manuscripts and archives 

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Rob Lutton

  • Social and cultural history of England (c.1200-c.1600)
  • Late medieval popular religion
  • Heresy and heterodoxy
  • Medieval Church history
  • Memory

Dr Julia Merritt

  • Early Modern English religious and political culture
  • Social and urban history of Early Modern England
  • Early modern London 
  • The relationship between religion and urban society

Dr Tarik Oumazzane

  • Modern and Contemporary Middle East and North African Studies
  • Decolonisation in Africa
  • Regional integration in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Anglo-Moroccan relations
  • Neoliberal theory

Dr Martina Salvante 

  • Modern European history
  • Fascism 
  • Gender history
  • Social and cultural history
  • Disability history

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees

Dr Liudmyla Sharipova

  • The European Reformations (16th and 17th Centuries)
  • Religion and politics in early modern Europe
  • Book and library history, especially the history of the printed book up to 1800
  • Russian and East European history in the early modern period
  • Polish and Ukrainian history

Prof Jeremy Taylor

  • Modern cultural and social history of China and the Chinese-speaking world
  • Chinese Diasporic communities in Southeast Asia
  • Visual cultures and propaganda in East and Southeast Asia
  • Memory and heritage in East and Southeast Asia
  • Spatial history in East and Southeast Asia
  • Comparative studies of foreign occupation

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War

Prof Maiken Umbach

  • National Socialism, ideology, emotion, and personal experience (ego-documents etc)
  • Photography as a political source; visual culture and propaganda
  • German-Jewish history and history of Jewish migration (1900-1960)
  • Working with museums, shaping curatorial practice and evaluating visitor experience
 
Diplomatic history

Dr Alex Bryne *

  • United States foreign relations
  • United States imperialism
  • The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • The First World War
  • Pan-Americanism

Dr Andrew Cobbing

  • Modern Japan (mainly 19th century)
  • International relations in East Asia
  • East-West cultural relations
  • Anglo-Japanese diplomatic history
  • International law in the global order

Dr John Condren

  • Diplomacy between the 16th and 18th centuries
  • Cultural exchange between the Italian states and France
  • War and society in early modern Europe, especially France, Italy, and the Swiss Confederacy
  • Protestant identity and the experience of Huguenot exile
  • Military finance and the history of Swiss banking

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Spencer Mawby

  • Post-war British foreign and colonial policy and anticolonial activism
  • Theory, practice and history of diplomacy, colonial labour politics and institution-building
  • Late imperialism and early independence in Africa and the Caribbean and the Middle East
  • The history of the Cold War

Dr Tarik Oumazzane

  • Modern and Contemporary Middle East and North African Studies
  • Decolonisation in Africa
  • Regional integration in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Anglo-Moroccan relations
  • Neoliberal theory
 
Disability history

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Martina Salvante 

  • Modern European history
  • Fascism 
  • Gender history
  • Social and cultural history
  • Disability history
 
Economic history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Richard Goddard

  • Medieval England (1250-1540)
  • Social and economic history
  • Towns, cities and borough courts
  • Medieval credit in domestic and international commerce
  • Medieval women

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Arun Kumar

  • Colonial Indian history and global history
  • Social and labour history of modern India
  • Education and the history of socio-economic inequality
  • History of capitalism and commodities
  • Non-work, leisure, sleep, and night-time history

Dr Julia Merritt

  • Early Modern English religious and political culture
  • Social and urban history of Early Modern England
  • Early modern London 
  • The relationship between religion and urban society

Dr Tarik Oumazzane

  • Modern and Contemporary Middle East and North African Studies
  • Decolonisation in Africa
  • Regional integration in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Anglo-Moroccan relations
  • Neoliberal theory

Dr Anna Rich-Abad

  • Medieval Crown of Aragon (14th century)
  • Social and economic history
  • Medieval Jewish and Christian interaction
  • Gender and medieval women
  • Notarial culture
 
Environmental history

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica
 
Gender history

Professor Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Harry Cocks

  • Modern Britain (c. 1700 - present)
  • Modern France (c. 1815 - present)
  • Cultural history
  • Social history
  • History of sexuality

 Dr Erin Geraghty 

  • The British and Irish suffrage movement
  • The British and Irish trade union movements in the early twentieth century
  • The interwar women's internationalist movement and pacifism
  • Early feminism
  • Internationalist socialism of the early twentieth century
  • British imperialism in Ireland 

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Prof Elizabeth Harvey

  • Germany (20th Century)
  • Comparative perspectives in twentieth-century European social and cultural history
  • Gender, nationalism and imperialism
  • Gender, war and reconstruction
  • Youth and youth movements

Dr Matthew Hefferan

  • Late medieval England (c.1272-1485)
  • Political and military history
  • Medieval knighthood
  • The hundred years war
  • Medieval chronicles

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Kate Law

  • Twentieth-century southern African history
  • Modern women's and gender history
  • Medical history
  • 'New Imperial' histories

Dr Anna Rich-Abad

  • Medieval Crown of Aragon (14th century)
  • Social and economic history
  • Medieval Jewish and Christian interaction
  • Gender and medieval women
  • Notarial culture

Dr Martina Salvante 

  • Modern European history
  • Fascism 
  • Gender history
  • Social and cultural history
  • Disability history

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War
 
History of medicine

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Prof Anna Greenwood

  • History of health and medicine (post 1850)
  • Social and cultural history
  • Health humanities
  • British Empire history
  • History of pharmacy

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Kate Law

  • Twentieth-century southern African history
  • Modern women's and gender history
  • Medical history
  • 'New Imperial' histories
 
History of protest

Dr Richard Gaunt

  • British History (c.1780-1850)
  • Regional and local history of the East Midlands 
  • Politics and Electioneering
  • Biographies, historiography, and ego-documents
  • Museums, heritage and history

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Claire Taylor

  • The European Middle Ages, c.1000 to c. 1300, esp. South-Western France
  • High-medieval Christian heresy/religious dissent and its repression, c. 1000 to c.1300, especially Catharism and Waldensianism in Southern France
  • The ‘Global’ (Afro-Eurasian) Middle Ages, c. 1100 to c. 1300
  • The Mongols
  • Medieval slavery and unfreedom

Watch Claire discussing medieval heresy >

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War
 
History of sexuality

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history
 
History of the enslaved

Dr Sascha Auerbach

  • European imperialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century
  • History of the modern state
  • Late-stage slavery and its legacies
  • Race and migration in the Global South
  • Legal culture and gender in Britain and the British Empire
  • Chinese and Indian labour diasporas

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Nathan Richards

  • Modern Black British history
  • History, culture and identities of the Black Atlantic Diaspora
  • Race, racialisation and slavery
  • Black communication and memory technologies 
  • Digital history: tools, theories and methods

Watch Nathan discussing modern black Britain >

 
Intellectual history

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Dean Blackburn

  • Post-war Britain
  • Political ideologies
  • The history of class identities
  • Time and temporality

Watch Dean discussing contemporary politics >

Dr Antonio Salgado Borge

  • Rationalism
  • Empiricism
  • The Cartesian turn in philosophy
  • The Enlightenment
  • Metaphysics of mind

Dr Peter Darby

  • Anglo-Saxon England (7th and 8th Centuries)
  • The venerable Bede and his works
  • Early medieval heresy
  • Early medieval Apocalyptic thought

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

Dr Onni Gust

  • Eighteenth-century British imperial expansion
  • Histories of race, gender and sexuality in colonial context
  • Enlightenment and colonial travel writing
  • Histories of the human-animal boundary
  • Transgender history
  • Disability history

Watch Onni discussing modern imperial Britain, race and gender >

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography
 
Jewish history

Dr Anna Rich-Abad

  • Medieval Crown of Aragon (14th century)
  • Social and economic history
  • Medieval Jewish and Christian interaction
  • Gender and medieval women
  • Notarial culture

Prof Maiken Umbach

  • National Socialism, ideology, emotion, and personal experience (ego-documents etc)
  • Photography as a political source; visual culture and propaganda
  • German-Jewish history and history of Jewish migration (1900-1960)
  • Working with museums, shaping curatorial practice and evaluating visitor experience
 
Labour history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Prof Sarah Badcock

  • Russian history (1825-1930)
  • Social, political and cultural history
  • Rural and urban lower-class life
  • Prison, exile and punishment
  • Regional histories

Watch Sarah discussing modern revolutionary Russia >

 Dr Erin Geraghty 

  • The British and Irish suffrage movement
  • The British and Irish trade union movements in the early twentieth century
  • The interwar women's internationalist movement and pacifism
  • Early feminism
  • Internationalist socialism of the early twentieth century
  • British imperialism in Ireland 

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Arun Kumar

  • Colonial Indian history and global history
  • Social and labour history of modern India
  • Education and the history of socio-economic inequality
  • History of capitalism and commodities
  • Non-work, leisure, sleep, and night-time history

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies
 
Local history

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Richard Gaunt

  • British History (c.1780-1850)
  • Regional and local history of the East Midlands 
  • Politics and Electioneering
  • Biographies, historiography, and ego-documents
  • Museums, heritage and history

Prof Anna Greenwood

  • History of health and medicine (post 1850)
  • Social and cultural history
  • Health humanities
  • British Empire history
  • History of pharmacy

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories
 
Migration history

Dr Sascha Auerbach

  • European imperialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century
  • History of the modern state
  • Late-stage slavery and its legacies
  • Race and migration in the Global South
  • Legal culture and gender in Britain and the British Empire
  • Chinese and Indian labour diasporas

Dr Nick Baron

  • Russian and East European history (20th Century)
  • Place, displacement and social identities
  • Collective memory, commemoration and the popular use of history
  • Spatial dimensions of imperial and state power
  • Representations of space (cartography, film, graphic arts, architecture, town planning, etc.) 

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Adolfo Polo y La Borda

  • Early modern globalization
  • Political culture of the Spanish Empire
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Imperial officials
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Mobility

Dr Uditi Sen

  • Modern, contemporary and post-colonial India
  • Migration, gender, memory and identity
  • Marginalised society and emerging ideologies and structures of independent India
  • The governance of refugees

Prof Maiken Umbach

  • National Socialism, ideology, emotion, and personal experience (ego-documents etc)
  • Photography as a political source; visual culture and propaganda
  • German-Jewish history and history of Jewish migration (1900-1960)
  • Working with museums, shaping curatorial practice and evaluating visitor experience
 
Political history

Prof Sarah Badcock

  • Russian history (1825-1930)
  • Social, political and cultural history
  • Rural and urban lower-class life
  • Prison, exile and punishment
  • Regional histories

Watch Sarah discussing modern revolutionary Russia >

 Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century 

Dr Dean Blackburn

  • Post-war Britain
  • Political ideologies
  • The history of class identities
  • Time and temporality

Watch Dean discussing contemporary politics >

Dr John Condren

  • Diplomacy between the 16th and 18th centuries
  • Cultural exchange between the Italian states and France
  • War and society in early modern Europe, especially France, Italy, and the Swiss Confederacy
  • Protestant identity and the experience of Huguenot exile
  • Military finance and the history of Swiss banking

Dr Gwilym Dodd

  • Late medieval England (c.1272-1485)
  • Politics and governance          
  • Kingship, authority and dissent
  • Language, ideas and political culture
  • Gentry and nobility

Dr Richard Gaunt

  • British History (c.1780-1850)
  • Regional and local history of the East Midlands 
  • Politics and Electioneering
  • Biographies, historiography, and ego-documents
  • Museums, heritage and history

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

Dr Matthew Hefferan

  • Late medieval England (c.1272-1485)
  • Political and military history
  • Medieval knighthood
  • The hundred years war
  • Medieval chronicles

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Daniel Hucker

  • Twentieth century international relations
  • Modern British and French history
  • Public opinion and diplomacy
  • Peace-making and pacifism (19th/20th century)
  • History of global governance

Dr Jonathan Kwan

  • European History (1789-1918)
  • Intellectual history, especially liberalism
  • Central European history, especially Austria-Hungary
  • Jewish history
  • Minorities and nationalism
  • Political history (constitutions, parties, government, administration)
  • Social, urban and cultural history

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Joe Merton

  • Post-1945 United States, especially 1970s and 1980s
  • Political history
  • Histories of conservatism and the right
  • Urban history, especially history of New York City and crime/policing
  • Race and ethnic politics since 1945

Dr Tarik Oumazzane

  • Modern and Contemporary Middle East and North African Studies
  • Decolonisation in Africa
  • Regional integration in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Anglo-Moroccan relations
  • Neoliberal theory

Dr Adolfo Polo y La Borda

  • Early modern globalization
  • Political culture of the Spanish Empire
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Imperial officials
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Mobility

Prof Maiken Umbach

  • National Socialism, ideology, emotion, and personal experience (ego-documents etc)
  • Photography as a political source; visual culture and propaganda
  • German-Jewish history and history of Jewish migration (1900-1960)
  • Working with museums, shaping curatorial practice and evaluating visitor experience
 
Religious history

Dr John Condren

  • Diplomacy between the 16th and 18th centuries
  • Cultural exchange between the Italian states and France
  • War and society in early modern Europe, especially France, Italy, and the Swiss Confederacy
  • Protestant identity and the experience of Huguenot exile
  • Military finance and the history of Swiss banking

Dr Peter Darby

  • Anglo-Saxon England (7th and 8th Centuries)
  • The venerable Bede and his works
  • Early medieval heresy
  • Early medieval Apocalyptic thought

Dr David Gehring

  • Early modern British and European history
  • Wars of religion
  • International relations and diplomacy
  • Elizabethan England
  • Exile, migration, and intellectual networks

Dr David Laven

  • Venice and Venetia from the late eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century 
  • Nineteenth-century Italian society, culture, and politics 
  • Foreign travel to Italy in the long nineteenth century 
  • Local and national identities (especially in the Italian peninsula and its islands) 
  • History of historiography

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Rob Lutton

  • Social and cultural history of England (c.1200-c.1600)
  • Late medieval popular religion
  • Heresy and heterodoxy
  • Medieval Church history
  • Memory

Dr Julia Merritt

  • Early Modern English religious and political culture
  • Social and urban history of Early Modern England
  • Early modern London 
  • The relationship between religion and urban society

Dr Lucy Parker

  • Late antique, medieval, and early modern Middle Eastern history
  • Saints, monasticism, and hagiography
  • Greek and Syriac Christianity 
  • Christian communities in the Ottoman empire; eastern Christian-Catholic relations 
  • Manuscripts and archives 

Dr Liudmyla Sharipova

  • The European Reformations (16th and 17th Centuries)
  • Religion and politics in early modern Europe
  • Book and library history, especially the history of the printed book up to 1800
  • Russian and East European history in the early modern period
  • Polish and Ukrainian history

Dr Claire Taylor

  • The European Middle Ages, c.1000 to c. 1300, esp. South-Western France
  • High-medieval Christian heresy/religious dissent and its repression, c. 1000 to c.1300, especially Catharism and Waldensianism in Southern France
  • The ‘Global’ (Afro-Eurasian) Middle Ages, c. 1100 to c. 1300
  • The Mongols
  • Medieval slavery and unfreedom

Watch Claire discussing medieval heresy >

 
Social history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Dr Sascha Auerbach

  • European imperialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century
  • History of the modern state
  • Late-stage slavery and its legacies
  • Race and migration in the Global South
  • Legal culture and gender in Britain and the British Empire
  • Chinese and Indian labour diasporas

Prof Sarah Badcock

  • Russian history (1825-1930)
  • Social, political and cultural history
  • Rural and urban lower-class life
  • Prison, exile and punishment
  • Regional histories

Watch Sarah discussing modern revolutionary Russia >

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Nick Baron

  • Russian and East European history (20th Century)
  • Place, displacement and social identities
  • Collective memory, commemoration and the popular use of history
  • Spatial dimensions of imperial and state power
  • Representations of space (cartography, film, graphic arts, architecture, town planning, etc.) 

Dr Richard Bates

  • Modern and contemporary France (1789-2000)
  • History of psychology, psychiatry, and autism
  • History of medicine and nursing; Florence Nightingale
  • Gender history, history of feminism (esp. in France)
  • The French Empire in the 19th century

Dr Richard Gaunt

  • British History (c.1780-1850)
  • Regional and local history of the East Midlands 
  • Politics and Electioneering
  • Biographies, historiography, and ego-documents
  • Museums, heritage and history

 Dr Erin Geraghty 

  • The British and Irish suffrage movement
  • The British and Irish trade union movements in the early twentieth century
  • The interwar women's internationalist movement and pacifism
  • Early feminism
  • Internationalist socialism of the early twentieth century
  • British imperialism in Ireland 

Dr Richard Goddard

  • Medieval England (1250-1540)
  • Social and economic history
  • Towns, cities and borough courts
  • Medieval credit in domestic and international commerce
  • Medieval women

Prof Anna Greenwood

  • History of health and medicine (post 1850)
  • Social and cultural history
  • Health humanities
  • British Empire history
  • History of pharmacy

Dr Alex Henry

  • 20th Century military and conflict history
  • Social history of the Second World War
  • Everyday life under Fascist and Nazi dictatorships
  • Coercion and consent in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes

Dr Sarah Holland

  • British history (c.1800-c.1950)
  • Social, cultural and local/regional history
  • Histories of the countryside (living and working conditions, representations, the rural idyll)
  • Histories of health (psychiatric institutions, patient experiences) and disability
  • Histories of poverty

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Sam Knapton

  • Central and east-central European history
  • Forced migration and displacement
  • International humanitarianism
  • Post-1945 occupation studies
  • Cultural and social history

Dr Arun Kumar

  • Colonial Indian history and global history
  • Social and labour history of modern India
  • Education and the history of socio-economic inequality
  • History of capitalism and commodities
  • Non-work, leisure, sleep, and night-time history

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica

Dr Kate Law

  • Twentieth-century southern African history
  • Modern women's and gender history
  • Medical history
  • 'New Imperial' histories

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Rob Lutton

  • Social and cultural history of England (c.1200-c.1600)
  • Late medieval popular religion
  • Heresy and heterodoxy
  • Medieval Church history
  • Memory

Dr Julia Merritt

  • Early Modern English religious and political culture
  • Social and urban history of Early Modern England
  • Early modern London 
  • The relationship between religion and urban society

Dr Joe Merton

  • Post-1945 United States, especially 1970s and 1980s
  • Political history
  • Histories of conservatism and the right
  • Urban history, especially history of New York City and crime/policing
  • Race and ethnic politics since 1945

Dr Onyeka Nubia

  • Early Modern history (European and comparative) 
  • Contemporary history
  • British history, British mythos, mythology, legends (comparative mythologies) and ancient history 
  • Historical pedagogy: Decolonisation, Colonial and Anti-colonial histories
  • Intersectionalism, chromatics and ethnocentrism, African (Black)-centred histories

Dr Anna Rich-Abad

  • Medieval Crown of Aragon (14th century)
  • Social and economic history
  • Medieval Jewish and Christian interaction
  • Gender and medieval women
  • Notarial culture

Dr Martina Salvante 

  • Modern European history
  • Fascism 
  • Gender history
  • Social and cultural history
  • Disability history

Dr Nick Thomas

  • Britain during the Second World War
  • Military history during the Second World War
  • Post-war social change in Britain, America and Europe
  • Post-war protest movements
  • The Vietnam War

Dr Claire Taylor

  • The European Middle Ages, c.1000 to c. 1300, esp. South-Western France
  • High-medieval Christian heresy/religious dissent and its repression, c. 1000 to c.1300, especially Catharism and Waldensianism in Southern France
  • The ‘Global’ (Afro-Eurasian) Middle Ages, c. 1100 to c. 1300
  • The Mongols
  • Medieval slavery and unfreedom

Watch Claire discussing medieval heresy >

Prof Maiken Umbach

  • National Socialism, ideology, emotion, and personal experience (ego-documents etc)
  • Photography as a political source; visual culture and propaganda
  • German-Jewish history and history of Jewish migration (1900-1960)
  • Working with museums, shaping curatorial practice and evaluating visitor experience
 
Urban history

Dr Jörg Arnold

  • Modern and contemporary British and European history
  • Intellectual history/history of knowledge
  • History of de-industrialization and labour
  • History of memory, war and conflict
  • Urban history

Prof Ross Balzaretti

  • Early medieval history (450-1050)
  • Medieval gender
  • Medieval sexuality
  • Landscape and environmental history of Italy, multi-period
  • Nineteenth-century travel history

Watch Ross discussing medieval Italy and gender >

Dr Richard Goddard

  • Medieval England (1250-1540)
  • Social and economic history
  • Towns, cities and borough courts
  • Medieval credit in domestic and international commerce
  • Medieval women

Dr Richard Hornsey

  • Everyday life in twentieth-century Britain
  • Work, leisure and consumption
  • Urban and suburban life
  • Visual, material and spatial cultures
  • Identities (particularly gender and sexuality)

Dr Robert Lambert

  • British and global environmental history
  • Species history
  • The history of nature conservation, environmentalism and environmental management
  • Eco-tourism, wildlife tourism, sustainability
  • Antarctica

Dr Rúben Leitão Serém

  • Modern Spanish history
  • Modern Portuguese history
  • Modern European history
  • Fascism and the far-right in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Europe
  • Collective memory studies

Dr Julia Merritt

  • Early Modern English religious and political culture
  • Social and urban history of Early Modern England
  • Early modern London 
  • The relationship between religion and urban society

Dr Joe Merton

  • Post-1945 United States, especially 1970s and 1980s
  • Political history
  • Histories of conservatism and the right
  • Urban history, especially history of New York City and crime/policing
  • Race and ethnic politics since 1945
 
 

 

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