Research in History
A Research-Driven Environment
Research Interests
History, with a rating of 20% 'world leading' and 40% 'internationally excellent' in the latest (2008) Research Assessment Exercise and its thirty staff embraces research interests from medieval to contemporary times. It has noted concentrations of scholarship in the following areas:
- Cultural History of Modern War
- Economic and Social History
- Historical Methodology
- History of Gender and Sexuality
- Intellectual History
- History of Migration
- Nationalism and Imperialism
- Politics and the State
- History of Religion
- Urban History
- World History
Click here to see the particular research interests of individual members of staff.
History staff are extremely successful in raising money for research. Details of current major research grants in history can be found by clicking here.
Interdisciplinary Research
Research in the History subject-areas connects with that of historians across the School in the subject-areas of Classics and Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History and Religions and Theology; also with historians in the Centre for the History of Science and Medicine (CHSTM), in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, and elsewhere. Interdisciplinarity is also institutionalised in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIDRA).
Research Centres
- Centre for the Cultural History of War
- Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
- Centre for Research in the Cultural Forms of Modern European Politics
- Manchester Centre for Music in Culture
Research Seminars
The quality of this research environment is evident in the busy seminar programme which is complemented by a long-running, successful History graduate research seminar where students present their own papers, and by school-based research-student conferences.
Click here to see details of forthcoming research seminars in History.
Manchester Papers in Economic and Social History
Click here to see online editions of the Manchester Papers in Economic and Social History.