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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Asia, Middle East and Africa

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Caribbean history; post-colonial history; race and ethnicity; social history

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Japan; China; global history; medievalism

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Political Culture; Consumerism; modern Britain
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Early Modern Europe; Violence; Emotions; Civil Society

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Empire; history of science; medicine and technology; modern Britain; expertise

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Economic history; environmental history; history of Hong Kong; history of Britain

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Britain and Ireland, The Americas
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Animal history; cultural history; Spanish Empire; history of science

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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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Europe

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Economic history; medieval Central Asia; Imperial China; history of the Silk Roads

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Church history; pilgrimage and sacred space; public engagement with the heritage of churches and cathedrals; social and community roles of churches today

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Public History; Religious history; social history; Transatlantic history
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Parish church history; late mediaeval/early modern stained glass; parish libraries; Jewish history in York and northern England

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Chinese history; decolonisation; history of colonialism; social history

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History of childhood; Archives and records; Participatory approaches; Memory studies

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Gender history; history of print; early modern Britain; history of reading

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Britain and Ireland

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Britain and Ireland

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Britain and Ireland
Dr Mao Li

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Modern United States; slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World; Native American history
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Decolonisation; Afro-Asian history; East Africa; transnational history

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Britain and Ireland, Asia, Middle East and Africa

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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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The United States and Middle East

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African history, social and environmental history, migration and belonging, oral history

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Pre-modern Islamic world; Middle East

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Cultural history; religious history; sound and music; gender, mobility and multilingualism

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Europe, The Americas

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Modern Britain; history of social science; welfare states

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Britain and Ireland

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Modern Poland and East-Central Europe; Modern Germany; Minorities (ethnic, national, cultural); Forced Migration

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Public History; Gender and social history; material culture and clothing; consumption

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French and English cultural history; political history; gender; chivalry and aristocracies

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Britain and Ireland, Europe

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Britain and Ireland
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Britain and Ireland
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Modern Britain; Black British history; urban history; cultural history
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Gender and sexuality; animal history; medieval Europe; social history