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Department Of History
Research Centres
- Centre for Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies
- Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Research Groups
- Africa
- Britain and Continental Europe
- Early Modern
- East Asia
- Economic and Social History
- Gender and Sexuality
- Landscape and Memory
- Medieval
- Modern
- North America
- Political Cultures
- Science and Medicine
- Theology and Religion
- Transnational History
- Visual and Material Culture
Research Facilities
- A major research library for historical study, including archival and
- Early printed book collections (Cosin Library, Ushaw College, monastic
- Records, Grey Papers, Sudan Archive) and substantial modern British
- Microfilmed sources.
- Palaeography
- Medieval Teaching Group
Research Projects
- Britain’s secret red purge: the interwar bar on Communists in the civil service
- Sculpture in the Early Medieval Irish Sea c.800-c.1000: Interlacing Traditions
Completed Projects
- British state prayers, fasts and thanksgivings, 1540s to 1940s
- Preaching Politics: Debating Governance Mosques and Churches in Coastal Kenya
- Tipping Points
- Translating cultures: Diplomacy between the early modern and modern worlds
Ongoing Projects
- British Medieval Illuminators’ Pigments: A Scientific and Cultural Study
- Calabria, AD 400-1000: Settlements, societies and landscapes
- Church, State and Nation in Britain: the journals of Hensley Henson, 1900-1939
- Environment and Statehood in Ethiopia
- Ex-servicemen, the legacy of militarization, and Liberal politics in Britain after the Great War
- Fires of Hope and Love: Purgatory in the Early Middle Ages
- Hunter 100
- Native Realms: A New History of Europe, 1291-1420
- Ordered Universe
- Petitions and Petitioning from the Medieval Period to the Present
- Petitions, Parliament, and People
- Revolutionary Violence in Ethiopia
- Royalty and religion in the British Isles since 1689
- Social relations and everyday life in England, 1500-1640
- The Continental South: Slavery and Civil War in the American West
- The impact of elections: voting, political behaviour and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa
- The Kaiser Myth: Medieval Emperors and German Memory, CE 900-2000
Staff
Administrative Staff
- Ms Imogen Barton
- Audrey Bowron
- Miss Zoe Fitzgerald
- Mrs Zoë Gardiner
- Miss Hannah Martin
- Ms Lydia Price
Academic Staff
- Dr Sare Aricanli
- Dr Alex Barber
- Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
- Dr Jennifer Bond
- Dr Adam Bronson
- Dr Alex Brown
- Dr James Callanan
- Dr John-Henry Clay
- Dr Chris Courtney
- Dr David Craig
- Dr Barbara Crosbie
- Professor Sarah Davies
- Dr Lara Douds
- Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes
- Professor Richard Gameson
- Professor Giles Gasper
- Dr Adrian Green
- Dr Tom Hamilton
- Dr Anne Heffernan
- Dr Richard Huzzey
- Dr Matthew Johnson
- Dr Rachel Johnson
- Professor Ludmilla Jordanova
- Dr James Koranyi
- Dr Cherry Leonardi
- Professor Christian Liddy
- Dr Jennifer Luff
- Dr Julie Marfany
- Dr Natalie Mears
- Dr David Minto
- Dr Skye Montgomery
- Dr Erik Niblaeus
- Dr Andrzej Olechnowicz
- Dr Toby Osborne
- Dr Markian Prokopovych
- Professor Nicole Reinhardt
- Dr Helen Roche
- Dr Charlie Rozier
- Professor Len Scales
- Professor Kay Schiller
- Professor Graeme Small
- Dr Thomas Stammers
- Professor Stephen Taylor
- Dr Gabriella Treglia
- Dr Kevin Waite
- Dr Jacob Wiebel
- Professor Philip Williamson
- Professor Justin Willis
- Professor Andy Wood
Teaching Fellows
Research Staff
- Dr James Kirby
- Dr David Lowther
- Dr Henry Miller
- Julius Morche
- Dr Katie Palmer Heathman
- Dr Sigbjørn Sønnesyn
- Dr Heidi Stoner
Associated Staff
- Professor Paul Bailey
- Dr Ruth Blakely
- Dr John Brown
- Dr Ellen Crabtree
- Prof Robin Frame
- Dr Barbara Gribling
- Professor Howell John Harris
- Prof. PDA Harvey
- Dr Margaret M. Harvey
- Dr Catherine Kent
- Professor Ranald Michie
- Dr Christine Newman
- Professor Michael Prestwich
- Professor David Rollason
- Dr Lynda Rollason
- Dr Clare Stancliffe
- Dr Christine Woodhead
PhD Students
- Mr Christopher Allan
- Ms Katharine Bader
- Mr Matthew Sterling Benson
- Mr Adrian Browne
- Ngala Chome
- Mr Chi Chuk
- Kelly Marie Clarke
- James Cronin
- Mr Harry Cross
- Mr Razvan Dumitru
- Mr Gabriel Fidler
- Mr Alastair Forbes
- Ms Kimberley Foy
- Miss Yundi Guo
- Barbara Hargreaves
- Miss Rachael Harkes
- Mr Chih-hsin Huang
- Ms Megan Johnston
- Ms Anna Jones
- Ms Alexandra Jordan
- Mr Thomas Kearns
- Fergal Leonard
- Miss Carrie Long
- Mr Thomas Lowman
- Mr Matthew Lumley
- Miss Lindsay Macnaughton
- Ms Katharine Marlow
- Miss Sarah Marriott
- Ms Emily Marsden
- Mrs Sarah McCook
- Mr Marcus Meer
- Miss Antonia Miejluk
- Dr Joseph Mulhern
- Mr Callum Murrell
- Mr Mathew Norman
- Miss Antonia Perna
- Kirstyn Raitz
- Miss Caroline Smith
- Rhiannon Snaith
- Grace Stephenson
- Miss Ciara Stewart
- Mr James Taffe
- Miss Avril Taylor
- Ms Marina Tymviou
- Mr Adam Whybrow
- Mr Ryan Wicklund
PhD Graduates
- Dr Mark Bennett
- Dr Ana de Oliveira Dias
- Dr Finola Finn
- Dr Sarah Gilbert
- Dr Kathleen Reynolds
- Dr Abigail Steed