Course summary

Research interests within History are extremely wide-ranging. They include:

• medieval culture, religion, gender, and law

• historical theory

• early modern witchcraft and the occult

• the Italian Renaissance

• North America from the colonial era

• intellectual history from Machiavelli to Marx

• genocide

• Nazi and post-war Germany

• Russia and the Soviet Union

• the Cold War

• political, social, and cultural aspects of the history of China, Japan, Africa, India, Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era

• Pre-modern and early-modern history: our research interests lie in the social, political, religious and cultural history of Europe – from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance, with particular emphasis on England, France and Italy.

• Modern British and Irish history: we have particular interests in early modern religion, belief and intellectual history (including the Scottish Enlightenment); social, economic and political history; relations between Britain and Ireland; Second World War Studies; and international relations.

• Modern European history: specialisms include 18th-century political and intellectual history; genocide; France; Germany; Russia and the Soviet Union; and Spain.

• American history: our expertise includes revolutionary and early national America; the Civil War; US diplomatic history in the 19th and 20th centuries; politics in the 20th century; African-American history and the civil rights movement.

• Global and Transnational history: we research African history; Caribbean and Latin American history; the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth; modern India, Pakistan, and China and Japan from the early modern period to the contemporary world, and the history of global connections and the movement of people, objects, images and ideas.