Research seminars and conferences - History

Urban Lifestyle Magazines, Crime and Self-Help in Crisis-Era New York City, 1969-1985

Automobility and the City in Twentieth Century Japan and Britain: Conclusions

Joe Merton

Sue Townsend

Mary Crymble Makes a Mint? Women, Work and Wealth in 18th century Jamaica

Italian Orientals...beyond East and West

Sheryllynne Haggerty

David Robinson

1958-1968: National Decline, Meritocracy and the Technocrats in Post-War Britain

Powellism and Post-War British Politics: Enoch Powell’s Doctrine of Rights and Responsibilities

David Civil

Joe Himsworth

Freely telling her mind: the female voice and Covenanter polemic in early modern Scotland

Laura Stewart (University of York)

Atto of Vercelli’s Polipticum quod appellatur Perpendiculum: A Key Source for the History of Post-Carolingian Italy

Giacomo Vignodelli (University of Bologna)

The Peregrinations of an Englishman in Germany - Robert Beale (b. 1541, d, 1601)

Fleshing out a massacre: Shelford House and the definition of the “righteous dead”, 1645-1999

David Gehring

Dave Appleby

Encounters in occupied Germany, 1945-1949

Neither rural nor urban. Factory settlements and their workforce in Central Russia, 1880-1914

Karen Adler

Jon Rowson

The Contingent Experience of Ageing and Loss in Managing Hearing and Deafness in British culture c. 1850-1950

Prof. Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity) and Prof. Graeme Gooday (Leeds)

The Origins of the Russian Provisional Government and the Politics of the February 1917 Revolution

Prof. Semion Lyandres (University of Notre Dame)

True blue: the connotations of a colour in the late Middle Ages

The King and the Late Medieval English Taxpayer

Matthew Ward

Gwil Dodd

“A mutually advantageous relationship between the two countries”: Anglo-Brazilian relations in the anos de chumbo, 1968-1974

"He has risen!" The Valley of the Fallen and the Exhumation of Franco

Jane-Marie Collins

Gareth Stockey

‘This Sylvan Prince’: James I, Hunting, and the Politics of Sociability

Double Monasteries for Men and Women in the Eastern Church

Tom Rose

Liudmyla Sharipova,

Hospitals and Canon Law in the Middle Ages: The Problem of Charities for a Church in the World

Sethina Watson (York)

Emotions and Britain’s Decision for War in 1914

The Birth of Meritocracy: Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy and Post-War British Politics, 1944-1958

John Young

David Civil

Title TBC

Sarah Miller-Davenport (Sheffield)

Historicising Trauma in Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts: An Artist’s Interpretation

Michael McMillan

Henry Christophe and the Kingdom of Haiti during the Age of Revolutions

Paul Clammer

The Pentateuch Diagram in the Codex Amiatinus

Mainstream Piety and Dissent in a Fifteenth-century Bristolian Parish: The Case of St Thomas the Martyr

Peter Darby

Esther Lewis

An Anti-Permissive Permissive Society? Public Opinion and Social Change in Postwar Britain

Marcus Collins (Loughborough)

Buried in the Text: Bodies and Burials in Late Medieval Women’s Wills

The Life of a Jewish Liberal in Vienna: Heinrich Jaques (1831-1894) and his Milieu

Alexandra Marchbank

Jonathan Kwan

Elusive Diplomacy: Saxon Conflict Management in the later Sixteenth Century

Hannes Ziegler (GHIL)

Avoiding ‘Musty Mutton Chops’: The Network Narrative of an American Merchant in London, 1772-1774

Cartographies of Belonging in the Early Nineteenth-century British Empire

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Onni Gust

Cartography and Cultural Revolution: Maps, Modernity and the New Soviet Man

Rediscovering the Region: The West German Press in the
1970s

Nick Baron

Christian Haase            

Premodern Diplomatic Gift-Exchange: An Anglo-Muscovite Example, 1568-1604

Red Rubber in Sepia: Slavery, Memory and Representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Tatyana Zhukova

Katie Donington

Giorgio Riello

Visual Histories of the Japanese Occupation of China

Science, Medicine and the Spectator in Early Soviet Russia

Jeremy Taylor

Anna Toropova

The Culture of Loyalty in Fifteenth-Century England

Jewish Women's Economic Activities in Barcelona at the time of the Black Death

Sarah Holland

Richard Gaunt

Hilary Ingram 

Sascha Auerbach

Michael Carey

Alex Henry

3 Feb 16

16 Mar 16

14 Oct 15

18 Nov 15

4 Feb 15

Japanese Red Cross Mission to Britain in 1915–16

Belief, heresy and inequality in medieval Europe

Anna Greenwood

Jazliza Jamaluddin 

4 Mar 15

Forging a “new” diplomacy: the International Peace Bureau and the
Hague conferences of 1899 and 1907

Learning more from the history of failure than success? Case studies
of British interventions in the Middle East since 1956

Extraordinary rendition after the First World War? The case of Morgan
Philips Price

William Raffard, a converted Cathar perfect and his community

Taxes, burdens, and anxieties: a short history of taxes in Russia,
Europe, and North America, 1700–1914

22 Oct 14

Defining prostitution in late Tsarist Russia and the early Soviet Union

The early years of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, 1926–1939

Competing identities: urban worker identity in Sormovo, 1917–1921

Reconstructing Europe: photography and the cultural history
of the post-war European city, 1945–1961

Robert Frost

19 Nov 14

Private lives and everyday life in Nazi Germany (postgraduate and
early career workshop)

Religious diplomacy and political intelligence in Anglo-German relations under Elizabeth I

Empire and the racialisation of boredom

The Christ in Majesty image in the Codex Amiatinus

Relics on the road: the Delatio in medieval Europe, c. 900–1100