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
Find a research supervisor
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.
Research in the Department of History has unique chronological and geographical depth, covering a wide range of British, European and world history from the early medieval period to the present, so we are able to provide expert supervision across a variety of topics.
Supervision topics