Department of History

Research projects - History

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Our staff are involved in a number of research projects across a wide range of areas and specialties covering 500 AD to the present day.

Below you can search for research projects by:

  • keywords (eg, heresy or workhouse)
  • project name
  • research period
  • member of staff
  • region
  • status

or you can browse by historical period.

 

Research projects

Project

Period

Member of staff

Region

Status

Ambassador David Bruce, the London Embassy and Diplomatic Practice, 1961-69

Modern

John Young

UK, USA

Past

Between Land and Sea: Marshes and Society in Early Medieval Italy (500-1100)

Early Middle Ages

Marco Panato

Italy

Ongoing

British amateur topographical art and landscape in North West Italy 1835-1915

Modern

Ross Balzaretti

Italy

Past

British travellers in Liguria

Modern

Ross Balzaretti

Italy

Past

Centre for Hidden Histories – World War One Engagement Centre

Modern

John Beckett, Michael Noble

UK, Europe

Past

'Chemists to the Nation, Pharmacy to the World': Exploring the Global Dimensions of British Healthcare and Beauty with Boots the Chemists, 1919-1980

Modern

Anna GreenwoodRichard HornseyHilary Ingram

UK, Global

Ongoing

China Ports

Contemporary

Jeremy Taylor

UK

Past

Cinema and medicine in Early Soviet Russia

Modern

Anna Toropova

Russia

Past

Coal and steelworkers study group

Modern

Jörg Arnold

UK Past

Coal Mining in Nottinghamshire

Modern

David Amos

UK Past
Collaboration with the Workhouse at Southwell Modern Sarah Badcock UK Past
Condemnation of Heretical Texts in the Late Middle Ages Medieval Justine Trombley UK, Europe Past
Cultures of the Chinese Cold War in British Southeast Asia Contemporary Jeremy Taylor UK Past
The Culture of Loyalty in Fifteenth-Century England Medieval, Early modern Matthew Ward UK Past
Cultures of Occupation in 20th Century Asia (COTCA) Contemporary Jeremy Taylor UK Past
Curating Online Resources for Engagement and Learning (COREL) project Medieval, Early modern, Modern, Contemporary Nick Baron UK Past
Digital Urbanism and Diasporas: walking the cultural heritage of Calcutta's riverfront Modern Michele Clark, Maiken Umbach UK and India Past
Earls and Transnational Kingship in the Medieval Plantagenet Empire, c.1300-1399 Medieval Matt Raven Britain and Ireland Past
Fighting Fertility: The Politics of Race and Contraception in Apartheid South Africa, c.1980-1994 Contemporary Kate Law South Africa Past
Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020 Modern Paul Crawford, Anna Greenwood UK Past
Grand tourists and others: Travelling abroad before the Twentieth Century Early modern Ross Balzaretti UK Past
Historicising trauma in colonial and post-colonial contexts Modern Onni Gust UK, India and the Caribbean Past
History of anti-Apartheid activism in Nottinghamshire Modern Kate Law UK Past
Inherited Soil Surveys, Transdisciplinary Approches in Zambia (InSTAnZa) Modern Murray Lark, Anna Greenwood UK and Zambia Past
John Player’s Advertising Archive Knowledge Transfer Partnership Modern Elizabeth Harvey,
Chris Wrigley
UK Past
Making women work: gender, race and labour in Nazi-occupied Europe Modern Elizabeth Harvey Germany, Europe Past
Mapping the Soviet: Cartography, Culture and Power from Lenin to Stalin, 1917-1953 Modern Nick Baron Russia Past
Medieval heresy and dissent Medieval Claire Taylor UK Ongoing
Merchants and managers, sojourners and slaves Early modern Sheryllynne Haggerty UK and Europe Past
Motor Cities: Automobility and the Urban Environment in Birmingham, England, and Nagoya, Japan, c.1955–1973 Modern Susan Townsend UK, Japan Past

Nostalgia for a Pre-Socialist Past: The Communist Party and the Politics of History in Contemporary China

Modern and Contemporary

Qiang Zhang 

China

Ongoing

Nottingham Castle project

Modern

Richard Gaunt

UK

Past

Nottingham Universities and Historical Slavery (NUHS)

Early modern and Modern

James Dawkins

UK

Past

Obscene Reading in Britain and France c.1900-1960 Contemporary Harry Cocks UK, France  Past
The Orthodox Nun, 1600–1800 Early modern Liudmyla Sharipova   Past
The Persecution and Murder of the Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 Modern Elizabeth Harvey Europe  Ongoing
Petitions from Lincolnshire Medieval Gwilym Dodd UK Past
Photography as Political Practice in National Socialism Modern Maiken UmbachElizabeth Harvey Germany Past
The Power of Maps: Cartography and Cultural Revolution in the USSR, 1917-1957 Modern Nick Baron Russia, Soviet Union Ongoing
Press and Politics in West Germany: The papers of Marion Countess Dönhoff, 1946–2002 Modern Elizabeth Harvey,
John Young
Germany Past
"The Public Opinion of the World": transnational citizen activism and diplomacy, 1890-1920 Modern Daniel Hucker Europe, UK and USA Past
The Raleigh Project Modern Philip Riden UK  Past
Refugees in post-1945 Europe: Experiences in and beyond the DP camp Contemporary Nick Baron Eastern Europe  Past
Remaking Fear City: The Crisis of Crime and the Transformation of New York City, 1965-1985 Modern Joe Merton America Past

Remembering Byron at his Bicentenary and Beyond

Early Modern and Modern

 Sam Hirst

UK

Ongoing

The Social World of Nottingham's Historic Green Spaces: follow-on for impact and engagement project

Modern

John Beckett

UK

Past

Southwell and Nottingham church history

Various

John Beckett

Chris Brooke

UK

Past

Theories, Ideologies, and Politics of Spatial Planning in Russia and Germany, 1890s to 1945

Modern

Nick Baron

Europe

Past

Time and Chance: The Politics of Temporality in Contemporary Britain, 1945-2008

Contemporary

Dean Blackburn

UK

Ongoing

The United States, Great Britain, and Intermestic Politics, 1977-85

Modern

Aaron Donaghy

US, UK

Past

The Victoria County History

Modern

John Beckett, Philip Riden

UK

Past

Understanding and Improving Public Engagement with Holocaust Photography

Modern

Maiken Umbach
Elizabeth Harvey

Germany

Past

Welfare, Conflict and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars 1642-1700

Early modern

David Appleby

UK

Past

Writing our History, Digging our Past - a Connected Communities Project

Medieval, Early modern, Modern

Various

UK

Past

 

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