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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
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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 >
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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.)
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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
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Dr Dean Blackburn
- Post-war Britain
- Political ideologies
- The history of class identities
- Time and temporality
Watch Dean discussing contemporary politics >
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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
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Dr Harry Cocks
- Modern Britain (c. 1700 - present)
- Modern France (c. 1815 - present)
- Cultural history
- Social history
- History of sexuality
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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
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Prof Anna Greenwood
- History of health and medicine (post 1850)
- Social and cultural history
- Health humanities
- British Empire history
- History of pharmacy
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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 >
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Dr Sam Knapton
- Central and east-central European history
- Forced migration and displacement
- International humanitarianism
- Post-1945 occupation studies
- Cultural and social history
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dr Kate Law
- Twentieth-century southern African history
- Modern women's and gender history
- Medical history
- 'New Imperial' histories
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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
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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
Watch Tarik discussing Middle Eastern and North African studies >
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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 >
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Dr Martina Salvante
- Modern European history
- Fascism
- Gender history
- Social and cultural history
- Disability history
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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
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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
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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
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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
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