Course Description

Current research interests within the Department include:

Medieval History

• Norman and Angevin England and Wales

• The Mediterranean world

• Late medieval England and Wales

Modern British History

• Most aspects of British history between 1500 and  1800

• Most aspects of Welsh history

• The cultural, intellectual and urban history of  nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain

Modern International History

• Early modern religious and cultural history

• The Portuguese Empire

• Science, intellectual life, collecting and museums in early modern Europe

• The cultural and intellectual history of witchcraft

• Russia, Germany, and Austria from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century

• The United States since 1750

• Medieval “frontier” society in the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands

• Gender and the life-cycle in late medieval Europe

• The history of late medieval Italian society

• The social history of early modern religion, language, trade, science and witchcraft

• The Enlightenment, republicanism and international relations in the eighteenth century

• Emigration and urbanisation in the British Isles between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries

• Welsh industrial society

• American society from colonial times to the present

• The cultural history of Victorian Britain

• The political history of the UK since 1800

• Modern and contemporary Russian social history

• Austrian, German and Central European history, especially in the fields of urban, labour and post-1945 history

Modern Economic History

• Quantitative aspects of British economic growth from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries

• The history of economic thought from 1600 to the present

• Demographic history

• Anti-capitalist and socialist political economy

The Department takes a central role in the Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict.