Staff research in History Back to 'History research' Staff in the Department of History are engaged in a wide range of research projects covering all aspects of history. Some recent examples are below. Histories of a global university: exploring empire at the University of Birmingham The Liminality of Failing Democracy: East Central Europe during the Interwar Slump Blood and Treasure: the Social and Cultural History of Money during the First World War The Cultural Lives of the Middling Sort: Writing and Material Culture, 1560-1660 The Aftermath: the Great War and the making of 1920s Britain Angelica Schuyler Church: An American Aristocrat in Revolutionary London Bearers of the Cross: Material Religion in the Crusading World 1095-1300 Children Born of War - past, present and future