Research centres

Members of the department participate in a wide range of interdisciplinary departmental, faculty, university and inter-university initiatives.

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Medieval and Ancient

Thornton Abbey, a medieval abbey located close to the small North Lincolnshire village of Thornton Curtis, near Ulceby.

Medieval and Ancient Research Centre at the University of Sheffield (MARCUS)

Ranging from archaic Greece to Renaissance Europe, MARCUS represents an array of disciplines, from history to biblical studies, from philosophy to languages, and from archaeology to music.

What holds us together is the belief that the social structures, cultural expressions and individual experiences of this period are at the foundation of the world we live in today. MARCUS co-ordinates a regular seminar series and organises other events, both for specialists and for the interested public.

View the MARCUS website


Early Modern

Giovanni Paolo Pannini - Gallery of Views of Ancient Rome

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies (SCEMS)

SCEMS brings together scholars of the three 'long' centuries which make up the early modern: the long sixteenth century, the long seventeenth century, and the long eighteenth century.

This makes for a remarkable concentration of expertise and inter-disciplinary work. It also begs fundamental questions with which all early modernists must wrestle, about change, continuity, and periodization.

View the SCEMS website

Centre for the History of the City

The Centre for the History of the City seeks to to bring together staff and students from across our University and beyond, explore cities across chronological and geographic ranges, and involve scholars with an interest in the urban.

View the Centre for the History of the City website

Eighteenth-Century Studies Group

The Eighteenth-Century Studies Group is an interdisciplinary group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines across the University of Sheffield.

The Group covers the long eighteenth century - from c.1650 to 1850 - with particular strengths in British, American and European history.

Staff are drawn from English Literature and Language, French, Hispanic Studies, History, Landscape, Russian and Music.

View the Eighteenth-Century Studies Group website

Medical Humanities Sheffield

This Centre brings together over 100 colleagues from the Faculties of Medicine, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Engineering to explore the interface between medicine/science and and the arts and social sciences, focusing on issues relating to the well-being of mind and body in societies past and present.

View the Medical Humanities Sheffield website


Modern and International

Museo de América Conquest of Mexico

Contemporary and Modern History (CoMo)

The Centre for Contemporary and Modern History (CoMo) brings together international research expertise that ranges across west and eastern Europe, the Mediterranean (including north Africa), the Indian sub-continent, East Asia and the Americas.

CoMo provides a hub for people who conduct historical research—whether on an individual basis or as part of a wider research portfolio—and share a belief that the modern and contemporary world is best understood as an interconnected whole. 

View the CoMo website

Cultures of the Cold War

This network aims to provide a forum for scholars working on diverse aspects of the Cold War.

By 'cultures of the Cold War' we mean all those experiences, structures of feelings, and representations that decision makers, protesters, artists, writers, cultural producers, and everyday individuals developed, in East and West, in the Soviet Union and in Asia, in Europe and the United States, in response to the Cold War.

View the Cultures of the Cold War website

Centre for the History of the City

The Centre for the History of the City seeks to to bring together staff and students from across our University and beyond, explore cities across chronological and geographic ranges, and involve scholars with an interest in the urban.

View the Centre for the History of the City website

Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines across the University of Sheffield and aims to promote genuinely interdisciplinary and collaborative research.

Its interests extend over the whole breadth of the 'long nineteenth century', from c. 1789 to c. 1914, covering British, American and European history, literature and culture.

View the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies website

Centre for the Study of Journalism and History

The Centre was formed in Autumn 2009 to provide a forum for interdisciplinary research on journalism and history.

Its aim is to use seminars, research projects and publishing ventures to set up dialogues about using journalism both as a source for understanding the past, and for clarifying ideas about the public sphere, language and discourse. It is particularly interested in developing robust methodologies for exploiting digital archives of journalism content.

View the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History website

White Rose South Asia Network

The initiative connects the exceptional group of scholars working in the interdisciplinary area of South Asian Studies at the Universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield.

The applicants include a growing fellowship of over 40 scholars and postgraduate students from more than 17 departments across the White Rose Consortium. Specifically, we represent Humanities, Social Sciences and Education with particular strengths in South Asian history, literature, anthropology, politics, geography, sociology and religion, urban studies and town planning, landscape architecture, education and nursing.

The network also links to a wider set of academic, cultural and community partners in Yorkshire, the United Kingdom, South Asia and around the world.

For more information contact Siobhan Lambert-Hurley.

Medical Humanities Sheffield

This Centre brings together over 100 colleagues from the Faculties of Medicine, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Engineering to explore the interface between medicine/science and and the arts and social sciences, focusing on issues relating to the well-being of mind and body in societies past and present.

View the Medical Humanities Sheffield website

Flagship institutes

The University’s four flagship institutes bring together our key strengths to tackle global issues, turning interdisciplinary and translational research into real-world solutions.