Research in History
The Department of History undertakes a wide range of research from the medieval to the modern. It was ranked eighth in the country in the Research Excellence Framework exercise 2021 based on Grade Point Average, according to Times Higher Education.
Research Centres
- Centre for the study of North America
- Eighteenth Century Centre
- Modern and Contemporary History
- Modern British Studies
- Reformation and Early Modern Studies
- Study for the Middle Ages (CeSMA)
- Midlands History and Cultures
- War Studies
Doctoral researchers
Staff research projects
- 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