The University of Sheffield
Department of History

Research Projects

The Department of History at the University of Sheffield has a successful track-record of securing external funding for major research projects. Academic staff have obtained major grants from British funding bodies such as the British Academy, AHRC, ESRC and JISC, but also from continental European funding bodies such as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation or the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The topics and structures of these projects reflect the highly diverse research culture in the department. They range from major collaborative projects on aspects of British History and research networks with international partners to projects by individual staff members.

The Department of History has particular expertise in the Digital Humanities. Academic staff members in the department have worked on a number of key research projects that use digital technologies and online facilities. Through the use of web-based technologies, these projects offer access to online databases and facilitate data-mining. They have also changed the ways in which texts and databases can be searched and analysed, and how different types of information can be cross-referenced and linked. These projects are conducted in collaboration with the Humanities Research Institute, which functions as a national reference centre in the Digital Humanities.

 

Current Projects

Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900

Project Co-ordinator - Professor Bob Shoemaker

Marriage and the State in Imperial Germany

Project Co-ordinator - Dr Julia Moses

Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason's English Newsbooks

Project Co-ordinator - Professor Mike Braddick

Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

Project Co-ordinator - Dr Julia Hillner

Protestants behind the Iron Curtain: Religious Belief, Identity, and Narrative in Russia and Ukraine since 1945

Project Co-ordinator - Dr Miriam Dobson

The Comparative History of Political Engagement in Western and African Societies

Project Co-ordinators - Professor Mike BraddickDr Miles LarmerDr Adrian Bingham

Transforming German Nationalist Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. The Case of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

Project Co-ordinator - Professor Benjamin Ziemann

 

Completed Projects

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