Staff in History

I work on the social and cultural history of Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the Tudor and Stuart periods). I am interested in how the profound changes to religion and society over the course of this period played out in domestic life and practices of belief, with particular focus on the role of visual and material culture (images, objects, built environment) in shaping ...

I am a historian of race, migration and empire. My first book Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970 (forthcoming) traces multiple constructions of Irish identity in national and international displays as Ireland moved from a colonial to an independent, globally-connected state. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative ...

Katie Bank is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham researching musical-visual culture in early modern England. Her research reflects an interdisciplinary attention to the role of music and music making within the intellectual history of early modern England, particularly music's intersection with natural philosophy, the passions, and ...

I am a social and political historian of early modern Britain, with particular interests in histories of incarceration, state formation, and radical politics. I am currently completing a project on the history of imprisonment in early modern England. I am also developing new projects exploring everyday experiences of the early modern state, based on testimony from across the social spectrum, and ...

As a historian, I am primarily interested in how institutions and individuals respond to the challenges of war. I believe that this is best studied using an approach which is both comparative and cross-disciplinary.

I am a historian of Modern Europe, and work primarily on Germany during the Nazi and post-war periods. My first book German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945, (Oxford, 2018), explored the social and cultural histories of religion on Germany's Home Front during the Second World War. I teach a range of courses on 20th century European history, including a final-year special subject, 'The ...

My teaching and research centre on the Vikings, the history and archaeology of medieval Iceland, and Old Norse literature. Some of these interests show themselves in my book, Landscape, Tradition and Power in Medieval Iceland(2020). I am interested in how communities and individuals recall and write about the past, in the case of medieval texts like Sagas of Icelanders but also more generally. ...

My current research interests are Latin America and the world, global microhistory, regional identity, race and representation, gender and representation, transnational consumer culture, popular culture movements, movement and migration, language-based movements, and spatial understandings of regional culture.

My primary research interests are in the social, cultural, and transnational histories of the U.S. South, mobility, U.S. empire, and race.

I am an oral historian of modern Britain, with particular interests in the lived experience of place-based and welfare inequalities in the late twentieth century. 

 

 

My research is in the history of the West Midlands region, most especially in the politics and society of the Modern era. I have published political biography and electoral analysis as well as studies on sport, business and the arts. I also broadcast regularly with the BBC on historical and political questions. 

Professor Nicholas Crowson is a Professor of Contemporary British History with a particular interest in homelessness from the 1880s to the modern day. This includes recreating the life stories of vagrants in late Victorian times; exploring the hidden history of the mass squatting of military camps in 1946; examining the role of the Reception Centres after 1946; and considering the impact of ...

Dr Csirkés’s research interests include Iranian history, Ottoman history, Ottoman Turkish literature, Persian literature, cultural history, Central Asian history, and Central Asian literature.

I’m a historian of the American Revolution, the early United States, and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I have taught courses on American political thought, the nineteenth-century west, and women in the revolutionary era—I’ve also taught on the past and present of presidential elections, and a module on student journalism! Following my first book,

I am a historian of medieval culture, memory and identity, focusing in particular on the impact of the crusading movement. My publications have explored these subjects in the period between the high Middle Ages and the early modern era, and my most recent article, which examined the commemoration of crusaders in late medieval England, appeared in English Historical Review. My forthcoming ...

I am a political historian of twentieth century Britain, with a particular interest in conceptual history, political ideologies, and ideological change.

I am a historian of modern Britain, with a particular interest in histories of gender, intimacy and the emotions. My work explores how intimate histories can alter our understanding of politics, the law, the city and the broader transformations that shaped twentieth-century Britain.

I have been part of the Department of History since 2003, where I have taken a particular interest in the development of the undergraduate history syllabus and enhancement of teaching; I have also been Head of Department. My historical research has focussed on the complex interplay between politics, society and religion in early-modern German-speaking Europe, and my current project is ...

I work on the histories of coastlines, oceans, and the communities that rely on them. I like to explore the past by ‘doing’ as much as reading, taking small boats out to sea to research the culture and heritage of shorelines, and encouraging students to use built and natural environments to understand how past people lived.

My main interest lies in post war Germany, the political, social and economic reconstruction of the country (including Allied occupation policy) against the backdrop of the Cold War.

I am originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and came to Birmingham after teaching in the History Department at West Point.  My intellectual interests focus on Modern Central and Eastern Europe, modern international history, global insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as international law and the regulation of war.

 

My teaching focusses on the social and cultural aspects of eighteenth-century Britain. I'm particularly interested in how men and women experienced their lives in the context of wider understandings of power, gender and the body. 

I’m a British/Canadian academic interested in security and intelligence in the past and present and in a US/UK/Canada context.  My work has covered a range of topics, such as state surveillance against Canadian universities, UK and US counter-terrorism, a history of informants, and the world's most famous police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 

I research, write, and teach about twentieth century Britain, particularly histories of sexuality and gender, the politics of cultural life, and the 1920s and 1930s. I have come to realise that my real interest is in the changing relationship between capital, culture, and selfhood – how ordinary people make sense of the world and their place in it, and how this is shaped by markets and money

I'm a historian of colonial empire with a focus on modern France and its empire in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

For full details see my website at www.simon-jackson.eu

I am a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham, interested in the interaction between people and place and the role of heritage in this interaction. I am particularly interested in the role of heritage in place making and place identity in urban and rural areas, exploring especially local communities’ perceptions and their dynamics and potential in ...

I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, with particular focus on histories of youth, gender, leisure, and urban redevelopment in post-war period.

Having graduated from the University of Düsseldorf with a degree in mathematics, history and philosophy I completed an M.Phil in International Relations and PhD in Modern History at the University of Cambridge. I took up a lectureship in European history at the University of Hull in 1993 before joining the Department of Modern History here at Birmingham in 1994.

I am an historian interested in Sino-British relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I have broad research interests that include epistemologies, race relations, representation, translation, comics studies, and visual and material cultures with particular focus on China in the British imagination.

My primary research interests are in the history of politics, religion, and the book in early modern Britain and Europe, especially but not exclusively c1598-1660.

I am a historian of race, gender and sexuality in the United States, specifically the US South. My interdisciplinary research interests include fields in queer, urban, religious and women’s studies.

I am a historian of political and social activism with a particular focus on civil liberties and human rights and, increasingly, extra-Parliamentary conservative action in its many different forms which I examine across a range of different political spaces. I acted as Director of Modern British Studies at Birminghamfrom its formation in 2014 until 2018 and I am an Associate Editor of the ...

I specialise in the impact of Great Power intervention in the Balkans and Middle East in terms of diplomacy and conflict, predominantly from a British perspective. My teaching reflects these interests and more broader interests such as the origins of the two world wars and the Cold War. Modules taught include ‘Conflict in the Modern Middle East’, ‘Facing the Fuhrer, the Duce and ...

I study the social and cultural history of Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire in the late 19th and 20th centuries. I'm interested in the origins of modern ideas about race, gender, family, and national identity. Those questions have led to me write about a range of topics, including the Irish in Britain, queer history, and the co-operative movement. I'm currently working on an intellectual ...

My research and teaching considers what the history of the United States might tell us about colonialism, racial capitalism, and social movements in a global context.

I am a historian of memory and communities, with research expertise in local and family history, the social history of archives, and the mental afterlife of conflict. I am especially interested in the ways memory and the representation of the past shapes individual and collective identities, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of non-elite men and women. My first book, Recollection ...

Joy Porter is University of Birmingham 125^th Anniversary Chair, Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History and Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group(treatiedspaces.com), an interdisciplinary, internationally collaborative entity dedicated to addressing Indigenous environmental, political, and historical concerns. Her current major project is a multi-partner attempt ...

My research focusses on treaties between Native nations and non-Native governments in North America as sites of negotiation over sovereignty, law, constitutionalism, resources, and wider questions of the status and rights of small nations.

Social, cultural and military history of the two World Wars, including a focus on drug culture, consumption and control.

I am a historian of medieval religious cultures (c.1000–c.1300), with particular interests in crusading, pilgrimage and monasticism.

As a historian of modern Central and Eastern Europe, I am interested in the role that the 'small' states between Russia and Germany have played in history. A fundamental question I concern myself with is what people expect from the state and how this changes in periods of crisis. 

I am a social and cultural historian of modern Egypt, with particular interest in Egyptian popular culture and vernacular modernity.

I am interested in the value cultural heritage has to communities, and how it can or has the potential to impact human and social capital; including wellbeing, mental health and human dignity. 

I am a historian of modern South Asia (present day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka). My research interests range from the early colonial period with the coming of the East India Company’s rule to the late colonial period – the mobilization of Indian soldiers transforming the First World War into a global conflict. I am particularly interested in histories of gender based ...

As a historian of energy, the environment and modern economies, my research interests include the histories of modern energy regimes, financial systems and transport. I am also active as a public historian, as I collaborate extensively with various museums.

I am an historian of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain and empire. I research how historical actors produced, consumed, and derived meaning from, the material world. I am currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Losing Possession in the Long Eighteenth Century. My recent books include, Material Goods, Moving Hands: Perceiving Production in England, 1700-1830 (2014), N ...

I work on the creation and regulation of communities in the early and central middle ages. I’m particularly interested in the ways in which institutions or groups of people – as well as individuals – were gendered. I’ve just finished writing a book on monasteries and families in the early middle ages (600CE-1100CE); previously, I’ve worked on the origins of ...

My primary research interests are in the history of politics, news, the book and Latin in early modern Britain and Europe.

I am a social and cultural historian with particular specialisms in British history and the Anglophone world post 1850, histories of work, artistic culture, feminism, suffrage, and women’s and gender history. My first book Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement (2020) won the Historians of British Art award for a single-author book with a subject between 1800-1960 and ...

I am interested in all aspects of the history of war, but with a particular focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  My research explores British military history, military thought and strategy in this period: in particular, it covers British colonial warfare, counterinsurgency, the First World War and the Second World War. My teaching includes these topics, as well as ...

I am a historian of the English reformation, with broad interests in the history and theology of late-medieval and early modern Europe. My research explores the religious and cultural history of England over the course of the long sixteenth century, with a particular focus on the impact of religious change on the lived experiences of ordinary people.

 

I teach the history of religion and society in the early and central middle ages, and research on the cult of saints’ relics, miracles and religious cultures from the tenth to the thirteenth century in England. I am also the Director of Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures.

I am a global historian. I primarily research and teach the history of China.