History Research

Supervisory expertise in this area covers a broad geographical and chronological scope. It includes:

• maritime histories
• health and animal health and the environment
• agricultural and rural history
• land ownership and land reform
• urban environmental histories
• environmental history of the global Middle Ages
• working environments

Supervisors:

• Dr Scott Ashley
• Dr Rob Dale
• Dr Philip Garrett
• Dr Clare Hickman
• Dr Kristin Hussey
• Dr Jen Kain
• Dr Joseph Lawson
• Dr Shane McCoristine
• Dr Christina Mobley
• Professor Matt Perry
• Dr Feliz Schulz
• Dr Samiksha Sehrawat
• Professor Graham Smith
• Professor Annie Tindley

We can offer supervisory expertise on many aspects of health, medicine and disease. Particular strengths include:

• the histories of psychiatry
• trauma, and other ‘psy’ sciences
• the history of emotions
• disability history
• histories of sexuality and gender
• histories of health and migration
• reproductive health and rights
• medicine and war
• colonial history of medicine
• the history of death and bodies
• eugenics
• histories of science
• healthcare politics and inequalities

Supervisors:

• Dr Willow Berridge
• Dr Fergus Campbell
• Dr Rob Dale
• Professor Susan-Mary Grant
• Dr Clare Hickman
• Professor Violetta Hionidou
• Dr Jen Kain
• Dr Vicky Long
• Dr Shane McCorristine
• Professor Matt Perry
• Dr Luc Racaut
• Dr Lutz Sauerteig
• Dr Felix Schulz
• Dr Samiksha Sehrawat
• Professor Graham Smith

We offer supervisory expertise in the history of religious, political and radical ideas and ideologies. We focus on early modern Britain and Europe but also extending to other eras and regions. We can also supervise postgraduate research on:

• twentieth-century British politics and policy
• intellectual culture
• classical scholarship
• political education and participation
• print and visual culture
• stereotypes
• kingship and rulers

Supervisors:

• Dr Lindsay Aqui
• Dr Fergus Campbell
• Dr Nic Clarke
• Dr Katie East
• Dr Martin Farr
• Dr Philip Garrett
• Professor Rachel Hammersley
• Dr Simon Mills
• Dr Adam Morton
• Dr Luc Racaut
• Anne Redgate

Our supervisory expertise in this area highlights our commitment to historical justice and draws on our research strengths in:

• oral history and memory
• public history
• labour history
• histories of inequalities and activism.
• Other areas of supervisory expertise connected to this theme include:
• racism, race relations, slavery, abolitionism and segregation
• empire and post-colonialism
• conflicts, famines, exile and refugees

Supervisors:

• Dr Lindsay Aqui
• Professor Bruce Baker
• Dr Willow Berridge
• Dr Fergus Campbell
• Dr Sarah Campbell
• Dr Nic Clarke
• Dr Martin Farr
• Professor Susan-Mary Grant
• Dr Jack Hepworth
• Professor Violetta Hionidou
• Dr Ben Houston
• Dr Kristin Hussey
• Dr Joseph Lawson
• Dr Vicky Long
• Dr Christina Mobley
• Professor Matt Perry
• Dr Samiksha Sehrawat
• Professor Daniel Siemens
• Dr Claudia Soares
• Professor Graham Smith
• Professor Annie Tindley
• Dr Laura Tisdall

Our supervisory expertise in this area focuses on children’s care and welfare, emotions, rights and activism. We can also support postgraduate researchers interested in age and ageing.

• Dr Sarah Campbell
• Dr Vicky Long
• Dr Lutz Sauerteig
• Professor Graham Smith
• Dr Claudia Soares
• Dr Laura Tisdall

There are also opportunities for joint supervision with Latin American researchers in the School of Modern Languages.

• 20th-century French and British social and labour history; unemployment; social movements and protest (Dr M Perry)
• labour and business history in the cotton industry (Dr B Baker)
• work, health and disability in modern Britain (Dr V Long)
• the civil rights movement in the United States (Dr B Houston)
• civil protest and revolution in Egypt and Sudan (Dr W Berridge)
• labour in modern China (Dr J Lawson)
• historic industrial relations and trade union activism in the UK (Dr Andy Clark) 

• oral history of health and primary care, family and community, ethnicity and migration, public history and memory in 20th-century Britain (Professor G Smith)
• social memory and oral history (Dr M Perry, Dr S Campbell)
• oral history of famines, families, birth control, migration, ethnic Greeks from former Soviet Union, memory of famines (Dr V Hionidou)
• oral history in 20th century US history, public history (Dr B Houston)
• Scottish environmental history and land management (Dr A Tindley)
• history of the Vikings (Dr S Ashley)
• Anglo-Saxon England (Ms AE Redgate, Dr S Ashley)
• oral history theory and practice (Dr Andy Clark) 
• oral histories of working lives and deindustrialisation (Dr Andy Clark) 
• oral history of trauma and terrorism (Dr Andy Clark)

• modern British politics (Dr M Farr, Dr F Campbell)
• Anglo-Irish relations (Dr S Campbell)
• modern Central European politics (Professor D Siemens, Professor Tim Kirk)
• 20th century France (Dr M Perry)
• history of the United States in the 19th and 20th century (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Houston, Dr B. Baker)
• the politics of culture and sport (Dr K Brewster, Dr C Brewster)
• maritime history, Russia and East Europe (Professor S Ghervas)

• satire and laughter during the ‘long Reformation’ in Britain (Dr A Morton)
• history of the press in early modern France (Dr L Racaut)
• history of mass media and journalism (Professor D Siemens)
• 18th century urban cultures in Britain (Professor H Berry)
• 17th century London (Professor J Boulton)
• urban culture in the Habsburg Empire (Professor T Kirk)
• 20th and twenty-first century Britain (Dr M Farr)
• urban reconstruction in Soviet Russia (R Dale)
• print and material culture in 17th and 18th century Britain and France, history of the urban commons (Dr R Hammersley)