Our people
Over 45 staff work in our Department, with research and teaching spanning 1,600 years of history from across the world.
Use this directory to explore their interests and find contact details.

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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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Britain and Ireland

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Japan; China; global history; medievalism

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Environmental history; history of capitalism; modern France; economic thought

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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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Integrating ecological and cultural histories to inform sustainable and equitable futures for the Paramos
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Animal history; cultural history; Spanish Empire; history of science
Dr Lynsey Cullen
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Patient Data and the Media, 1860s to Present: Using historical scandals to explain current distrust surrounding access to medical data
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Britain and Ireland, Asia, Middle East and Africa

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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

K/173c
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Cultural History; Economic History; history of print

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Britain and Ireland

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Britain and Ireland

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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

V/A/221
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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

V/A/210
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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

V/N/217
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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
V/N/220
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Asia, The MIddle East and Medieval Europe
Professor Shen Qi

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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

K/275b
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Early Medieval England; Social History; Gender History; Political Culture

V/A/223
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Violence and its Control in early modern Venice, 1500-1797

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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

K/G86
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Gender and sexuality; animal history; medieval Europe; social history