Course summary

The PhD in Economic and Social History offers you the opportunity to study economic and social history at an advanced level through independent research. We host one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK and this enables us to support research in economic and social history across a wide range of time periods and geographical regions, from the early Middle Ages to the present day, and from Britain to the Caribbean. 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

• cinema and society in modern Britain

• gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960

• the economic history of China in the 20th century

• the history of health and medicine in Britain since 1750

• economic and society in the Global Middle Ages (c.500-c.1500)

• the origins of capitalism and the modern world-economy

• gender and sexuality in the eastern bloc