Academic 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.

Early Modern England; State in Early Modern England, 1550-1700

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

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

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

Historian of the Soviet Union

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

Conflict and violence in the sacred texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and contemporary aspects of religion and conflict in the Middle East.

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

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

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

Historian of newspapers and media framing; press responses to genocide in the 20th century; contemporary Scottish political history; professional boxing and race; gender in the press and advertising.

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.

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.

History, literature, and cultures of the ancient middle east with a specialization in ancient Israel and Judah, the two societies that produced the Old Testament. Study of ancient migration.

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.

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.