Our people
Over 45 staff work in our Department, with research and teaching spanning 1,600 years of history from across the world.
Find contact details and explore who does what.
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V/N/138
Research interests:
Caribbean history; post-colonial history; race and ethnicity; social history
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V/N/216
Research interests:
Japan; China; global history; medievalism
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V/A/213
Research interests:
Political Culture; Consumerism; modern Britain
Research interests:
Early Modern Europe; Violence; Emotions; Civil Society
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V/203
Research interests:
Empire; history of science; medicine and technology; modern Britain; expertise
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V/210
Research interests:
Economic history; environmental history; history of Hong Kong; history of Britain
V/A/226
Research interests:
Animal history; cultural history; Spanish Empire; history of science
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Research interests:
History of nineteenth and twentieth century medicine, including: patient case records, medical data, patients and practitioners, medical women, asylums and mental healthcare, welfare, death and dying.
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K/275D
Research interests:
Economic history; medieval Central Asia; Imperial China; history of the Silk Roads
Research interests:
Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture
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V/117
Research interests:
Public History; Religious history; social history; Transatlantic history
Research interests:
Parish church history; late mediaeval/early modern stained glass; parish libraries; Jewish history in York and northern England
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V/A/203A
Research interests:
Chinese history; decolonisation; history of colonialism; social history
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Research interests:
History of childhood; Archives and records; Participatory approaches; Memory studies
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V/A/224A
Research interests:
Gender history; history of print; early modern Britain; history of reading
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V/A/221
Research interests:
Modern United States; slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World; Native American history
V/A/222
Research interests:
Decolonisation; Afro-Asian history; East Africa; transnational history
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V/A/210
Research interests:
Britain and Ireland, Asia, Middle East and Africa
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Research interests:
A Healthy Approach to Grief: The Emotional, Material, and Sensory History of Grief and Loss in Late-Georgian Britain, c. 1760-1830
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V/A/225
Research interests:
The United States and Middle East
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V/N/217
Research interests:
African history, social and environmental history, migration and belonging, oral history
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V/A/208A
Research interests:
Pre-modern Islamic world; Middle East
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V/114
Research interests:
Cultural history; religious history; sound and music; gender, mobility and multilingualism
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V/A/209
Research interests:
Modern Britain; history of social science; welfare states
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V/205
Research interests:
Modern Poland and East-Central Europe; Modern Germany; Minorities (ethnic, national, cultural); Forced Migration
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V/A/224B
Research interests:
Public History; Gender and social history; material culture and clothing; consumption
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K/G82
Research interests:
French and English cultural history; political history; gender; chivalry and aristocracies
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Research interests:
Social, cultural and gender history of early medieval Europe.
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V/A/219
Research interests:
Modern Britain; Black British history; urban history; cultural history
K/G86
Research interests:
Gender and sexuality; animal history; medieval Europe; social history