History staff

Modern Latin American history; transnational and international history; the history of dictatorship and anticommunism; the global Cold War

Aid, development, and internationalism in the twentieth century, international humanitarianism and the British welfare state.

Historian of early modern Britain and Caribbean slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

20th c. British political; social and cultural history; media and popular culture; political engagement; gender and sexuality.

20th century British social and cultural history; popular culture; history of emotion; psychology;
health; marriage, personal relationships and the family; gender and sexuality

Interdisciplinary historian of early modern England. State formation and legal process as performance; popular understanding of politics and law; practice-as-research as historical method.

British Empire; colonialism; postcolonialism; India; southern Africa; race; gender; disability; missionaries; feminism.

Biological anthropology, medieval and post-medieval funerary rites, archaeologies of the body, childhood and maternity, equitable cultural heritage policy and participation

Social and cultural history of Britain in the ‘long’ eighteenth century, c.1650-1850.

Historian of the Soviet Union

Senior University Teacher in Cultural Heritage
Course Director- MA Cultural Heritage Management
Director of Recruitment, Department of Archaeology

U.S. foreign relations; international history of the Cold War; the Vietnam War; public diplomacy; the United States and the 1950s

Second World War and beyond; Military and Social and Colonial History; Race, Resistance, Captivity, Gender and Decolonisation in the Francophone world.

Modern European History, transnational / international history, legal history, 20th Century Germany, Cold War history, human rights, the modern state and national security, history of treason

20th Century British Political history; Women's and gender history; British Fascism; history of race & ethnicity.

19th and 20th century US history, with an emphasis on cities, political and social thought, and transatlantic connections.

Intellectual and social history of Byzantium and Central and Eastern Europe; literacy; written culture; historiography; nationalism

Professor of Landscape Archaeology

Western Europe since 1945; Cold War in Europe; Modern Greek and Balkan History; democracy and European identity; press and public opinion; European integration; peace movements.

History of slavery, women, and race in the American south

Women, gender and Islam in South Asia

Intellectual history; 17th Century commercial discourse, practice and policies; colonial projects and commerce; civil war politics

History of early modern Europe, history of the Mediterranean

Course Director- MA Heritage and Archaeology

Careers Liaison Officer
Fieldwork Officer
Part-Time and Mature Students Officer

Lecturer in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities

Politics & religion in early modern England, Ireland and Europe; the Church of England 1560-1700; early modern university disputations; anonymity; perceptions of East & West in 19th & 20th centuries.

Senior Lecturer in History: post 1800

19th & 20th-century Britain, Germany and Italy; social policy; legal history

Irish History; Political Violence; The History of Terrorism; The History of Childhood

Indigenous (especially Aztec-Mexica), Spanish American and Atlantic history. Cultural exchange, colonialism and early globalisation.

History of modern Britain and Ireland, history of political thought, the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’.

History of twentieth-century Eastern Africa, especially Tanzania and Comoros; decolonisation; the Cold
War; print media.

Modern European, international, and imperial history; 1848 revolutions; 19th /20th century
Germany; state-building; empire; imperial afterlives; peacekeeping; international trade currencies.

Early Modern Italy; markets; law; ethics

European History 1200-1600

Modern global, international, and transnational history; South African history; Africa and the world; Britain and the world; the United States and the world.

The central Middle Ages, focussing on the history of the church and papacy, legal history, and especially medieval canon law.

U.S. foreign relations history; Vietnam War; history of development

Historian of twentieth-century Britain, focusing on political change and media history.

20th Century Spain; Civil War and Franco regime; political and religious violence; history of Catholicism; history of gender.

Medieval archaeology; early Christian settlements; monasteries; the Dissolution; material culture studies.

Early modern history - urbanism and urbanization; the social history of politics; the social and economic history of intoxicants.

Late medieval Italian and European history, criminal justice, legal history, history of emotions, religious history, history of women and gender

Modern German social, cultural & political history.