The University of Sheffield
Department of History

Research Projects


The Department has a wide range of externally-funded current research projects. These are in addition to the individual research programmes of individual members of staff.

Current Projects

Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900 (Professor Bob Shoemaker)
Marriage and the State in Imperial Germany (Dr Julia Moses)
Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason's English Newsbooks (Professor Mike Braddick)
Protestants behind the Iron Curtain: Religious Belief, Identity, and Narrative in Russia and Ukraine since 1945 (Dr Miriam Dobson)
The Comparative History of Political Engagement in Western and African Societies (Professor Mike Braddick, Dr Miles Larmer, Dr Adrian Bingham)
Transforming German Nationalist Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. The Case of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) (Professor Benjamin Ziemann)

Completed Projects

Armadillo                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Crime in the Community
Data Mining with Criminal Intent
Hegemony and Power
Locating London's Past
Measuring the Miraculous
Old Bailey Proceedings Online
Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London
The British Academy's John Foxe Project
The Cistercians in Yorkshire Project
The Hartlib Papers Project
The Strafford Papers Project
The Stuart London Project
The Taxatio Project