Course summary

We host one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK. Staff research interests are wide-ranging, including the study of:

• economic development

• energy policy

• financial history

• globalisation

• urban history

• consumption

• material culture

• museums and collecting

• leisure

• religious belief

• popular culture

• medicine and disease

• gender

• sexuality

• the family

• culture and society in early modern Britain

• the material culture of gender in 18th-century Britain

• urban society and civil society in historical context

• clothing cultures in comparative historical contexts

• cinema and society in modern Britain

• gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960

• energy policy in Britain since 1920

• the economic history of China in the 20th century

• history of medicine and health in Britain since 1750

• material and visual cultures of the past

• enlightenment and popular culture

• economic and social history