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Projects in History

• Victoria County History 2012-14

  01/10/2012 →
  Angus Winchester, Sarah Rose
  A community local history project, involving over 90 volunteers working under supervsion from Lancaster University towards creating parish histories for the Victoria County History (VCH), the leading ... Read more»

• Culture, Politics, Eschatology: A Symposium

  21/09/2012 → 22/09/2012
  Paolo Palladino, Arthur Bradley, Bulent Diken, Charles Gere
  The symposium's theme is the continuing cultural and political relevance of eschatology. In recent years, diverse contemporary commentators have attended to eschatology. The symposium takes its cue fr ... Read more»

• Building Commons Knowledge

  01/07/2012 → 30/06/2013
  Angus Winchester, Eleanor Straughton
  This project arose out of the AHRC-funded ‘Contested Common Land’ project, undertaken in a collaboration between Newcastle Law School and Lancaster University History Department between 2007 and ... Read more»

• The Royal Mint in the Eighteenth Century

  01/01/2012 → 31/12/2015
  Stephen Pumfrey
  ... Read more»

• FP7: Spatial Humanaties

  01/10/2011 →
  Ian Gregory, Andrew Hardie, Paul Rayson, Christopher Donaldson, Patricia Murrieta-Flores, C.j. Rupp
  ... Read more»

• Common Rules: the regulation of institutions for collective action 1100-1800

  01/09/2011 → 31/08/2014
  Angus Winchester
  Focusing on common land in western Europe, this project aims to understand how efficient and effective regulation can be developed, executed by well-functioning institutions. Commons are a type of ins ... Read more»

• Manorial Documents Register for Lancashire

  06/06/2011 → 03/06/2012
  Sarah Rose, Angus Winchester
  ... Read more»

• The William Gilbert Website

  01/06/2010 →
  Stephen Pumfrey, Sarah Rose
  A Gilbert website is being developed with the aim of providing in one site comprehensive resources and links concerning William Gilbert (1544-1603) and Gilbert-related research. The content is collat ... Read more»

• The presbyterian Church in Ireland 1871 - 2001

  01/03/2010 →
  Ian Gregory
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• Village Byelaws from Northern England

  01/01/2009 →
  Angus Winchester
  The specific focus of this project is to create a corpus of village byelaws from manors across northern England for the purpose of comparison and analysis. The objective is to publish a collection of ... Read more»

• English Folk

  01/10/2008 →
  Sarah Barber
  Synthesising previous strands of work on radicalism and national identity, this research comes in two halves: the first seeks to identify what is meant by folk culture (in an English context), as dist ... Read more»

• Disputatious Societies: The British Caribbean, c.1600-1720

  01/01/2008 →
  Sarah Barber
  Thousands of digital images and digitalised copies of primary sources - material and archival - relating to early British and African settlement in the Caribbean region in the seventeenth century have ... Read more»

• Troubled Geographies: Two centuries of religious division in Ireland

  01/11/2007 →
  Ian Gregory
  ... Read more»

• Ageing and Biomedicine

  01/10/2006 →
  Paolo Palladino
  The proliferation of popular books, as well as innumerable public consultations and official reviews of government policy, suggests that the future development of the sciences of ageing is presently a ... Read more»

• Fatal Attraction of Nationalist Socialism

  01/01/2006 →
  Thomas Rohkramer
  This research addresses the important question of how a totalitarian regime could find mass support for its inhumane policies. It thus deals with an important historical question, which is also releva ... Read more»

• What is Bioart?

  01/10/2005 → 01/10/2008
  Adrian Mackenzie, Paolo Palladino
  This collaborative project focuses on the contemporary visibility and proliferation of bioart, 'bioart' being the label for the intersection of the creative arts and those much discussed, contemporary ... Read more»

• Guide to Cumbrian Historical Sources

  01/01/2005 →
  Cumbria is fortunate to have a wide and varied range of archives available to the local, family and house historian. This book introduces the new (and not so new) researcher to the extensive range of ... Read more»

• The Method of History

  01/10/2004 →
  Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird
  Work in all my areas of research involves using sources from material, visual, aural and oral culture which prove problematic for Historians. Corinna Peniston Bird (Lancaster) and I have co-edited the ... Read more»

• The "De Mundo" of William Gilbert (1544-1603)

  01/06/2003 →
  Stephen Pumfrey
  The production of an edition of the Latin manuscript, translation into English, critical apparatus and introductory essays. ... Read more»

• Science and Patronage in England, 1558-1625

  01/06/2002 →
  Stephen Pumfrey
  ... Read more»

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