项目介绍

2022年8月17日

We host one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK.

Staff research interests are wide-ranging, including the study of:

• economic development
• financial history
• energy policy
• globalisation
• slavery
• urban history
• consumption
• material culture
• museums and collecting
• leisure
• religious belief
• popular culture
• medicine and disease
• gender
• sexuality
• the family

The diversity of our research means we can support students’ economic and social history study in a vast range of time periods and geographical regions and from the early modern period to the present day.

Particular areas of expertise available for research are:

• Culture and society in early modern Britain
• slavery in the Atlantic world since 1700
• the material culture of gender in 18th-century Britain
• urban society and civil society in historical context
• clothing cultures in comparative historical contexts
• cinema and society in modern Britain
• gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960; energy policy in Britain since 1920
• the economic history of China in the 20th century
• the history of health and medicine in Britain since 1750

The University’s economic and social historians host three research groups: material and visual cultures of the past; enlightenment and popular culture; and economic and social history.

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