History Research Projects
Members of the Department have worked or are working on the following projects:
- Ageing, Death and the Politics of ‘Life Itself’.
- Border Liberties and Loyalties in North-East England in the 13th and 14th Centuries (supported by the Leverhulme Trust).
- Community, Society and Identity in 19th and 20th-century Gibraltar (AHRC-supported).
- Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance, Law and Sustainable Land Management c.1600-2006 (AHRC-supported).
- A critical edition of the earliest manuscript history of Cumberland, complied by John Denton of Cardew c.1600 (supported by the British Academy).
- The Cultural Crisis of Modernity.
- The cultural politics of English pantomime, 1837-1901 (AHRC-supported).
- Cumbrian Archives: an introductory guide to historical sources held in the county’s archives, libraries and museums.
- Cumbrian Manorial Records (supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund).
- A study of the historical papers of Edward
Baines and Edwin Butterworth.
- Ethnicity and the Construction of Prejudice in Premodern Europe c.1200-1700 (supported by the British Academy).
- An exploration and digitalisation of the official records of the Palatinate of Lancaster, stretching from the 15th to the 19th century.
- The Fatal Attraction of National Socialism.
- Imagining the Corporate Economy: Fraud in Britain, 1825-1914 (supported by the British Academy).
- The Indian State, Indian identities and British decolonisation.
- Kidnapped! Victorians, Edwardians, and Unpleasant Encounters with Mediterranean Brigands, 1837-1910 (supported by the Leverhulme Trust).
- The Literature of the English Catholic Community, 1680-1830.
- Lordship and Society in Medieval Clydesdale.
- Migrants and Settlers in the British Empire and Commonwealth since 1815.
- Monasticism in the Crusader States.
- The Monreale Registers.
- The Norman Edge: Identity and State-Formation on the Frontiers of Europe (AHRC-supported).
- The Politics of History in Anglo-Norman England.
- Revision
of Nikolas Pevsner's architectural guides to Manchester, South-East Lancashire,
Cumbria and North Lancashire published by Yale University Press.
- Ruskinian Theatre: the Aesthetics of the Late 19th Century Popular London Stage, 1870-1901 (AHRC-supported).
- Science and Patronage in Early Modern England (AHRC-supported).
- Shaping and Mobilising a Space: The Alps and Collective Identities in the German-Speaking Lands from the mid-19th Century to the Present.
- Spanish migrants to the United States 1855-1945.
- The World of William Gilbert.
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