Research

Find out about our world-leading research in History, Philosophy, Archaeology and the Digital Humanities.

Karyatid porch of the Erectheion in Athens
Archaeology research 
Graphic of a collection of computers, phones and tablets showing research
Digital Humanities Institute 
Point of No Return Monument detail, infamous gateway of slavery
History research 
Stacks of books
Philosophy research 

Publications March 2025

  • Anthony Milton's following articles have just been published:

  1. "Growing Opposition? Puritan Cheshire in Laudian London: The Diary of Samuel Torshell 1638-9" in Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere, 1500-1850 (Boydell, 2025).

  2. "Toleration and Ecumenism or Heretic-Burning and a Papal Antichrist?: Another Look at King James VI and I" in James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion (Routledge, 2025).

  • Archaeology PhD Student Claire Moore's paper has been published, open access, for the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology and features in their journal Post-Medieval Archaeology. The paper is titled "Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Postgraduate Dissertation Prize Winner 2022, Protest, persuasion, promotion: exploring the relationship between graffiti stickers and social media communities". 

  • Esme Cleall, along with co-authors Rachel Bright and Jen Kain, has published an open access article based on their Social Research Foundation Project (2023–2024). Titled "Reconsidering the History of Eugenics and Discrimination in Migration Control," the article appears in Migration Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1 (2025). 

  • George Roberts' article "The Paper Famine: Newsprint, Development, and the Materialities of Third World Media" has been published in the Journal of Global History. 

  • Joshua Forstenzer's award winning article, "Do the Unexpected! Why Deweyan Educators Should Be Pluralists about Political Tactics and Strategies" has been published in the journal Educational Theory.

  • Jules Holroyd's book, Oppressive Praise, has been published. It is about how expressions of positive appraisal can be informed by, and themselves sustain, patterns of social oppression. 

  • The Special Issue on "Periodization in British History" of the East Asian Journal of British History, Vol. 9 (March 2025) is out now. There are contributions from a number of History colleagues, past and present. Julie Gottlieb was interviewed by Ryosuke Yokoe for "Britain’s ‘War of Nerves’: Reframing and Reclaiming the Period from the Munich Crisis"; Mabel Winter writes about "The political Economy of Mills, England 1315–1815"; and Michael Braddick's article is on "The New Social History, Revisionism and the Historiography of Seventeenth-Century England: A Personal View".

  • Siobhan Lambert-Hurley published the following article with local historian Tarana Husain Khan and plant biologist Duncan Cameron (University of Sheffield), "Resurrecting Tilak Chandan: The Fall and Future Rise of Local Rice Varieties in North India", Gastronomica – The Journal for Food Studies 25:1 (Spring 2025).