Who we are

Modern Latin American history; transnational and international history; the history of dictatorship and anticommunism; the global Cold War

Title: Education and Pacifism In Inter-War Britain

Title: Humanitarian NGOs and Trade Unions: a history of conflict and collaboration

Beckett, espionage fiction, contemporary poetry, the Cold War and the construction of Europe.

History of twentieth-century Eastern Africa, especially Tanzania and Comoros; decolonisation; the Cold
War; print media.

Landscape historian and environmental humanist exploring the cultural history of trees, welfare landscapes and permaculture. Research spans the past and future of how we protect the natural world.

I specialise in architectural history, humanities, theory and creative critical writing. Prior to my award winning PhD (UCL) and academic career, I was a practicing fully qualified architect.

My research covers the consequences of extractive projects on architecture, urbanism and landscapes, with a focus on post-colonial Africa, South Africa, and South Yorkshire.

PhD title: "The Interrelational Production of Stereotypes and National Agendas in Conflict Journalism during the Vietnam War"

Political Economy

Modern and contemporary Japan; queer studies and feminism in East Asia; historical memory.

History of political thought; Japanese conservatism and right-wing politics; International theory;

Dr Ramos Villar's interest in Portuguese American life writing comes from a desire to give value to how working class, ordinary lives, write or speak about their lives.

Daniel's research addresses concerns within political and development geography, primarily in relation to sub-Saharan Africa.

Title: Allies made with culture: Multilateral Relations in American and British Cultural Aid to China, 1939-1949

20th c. British political; social and cultural history; media and popular culture; political engagement; gender and sexuality.

20th century British social and cultural history; popular culture; history of emotion; psychology;
health; marriage, personal relationships and the family; gender and sexuality

I am a historian of Britain and its empire. I take a postcolonial approach to think about disability, bodies, emotions, race and gender.

Historian of the Soviet Union

Title: Feeling the fear of failure- academic pressure and student stress in British governmental and press discourse c 1885-2000

U.S. foreign relations; international history of the Cold War; the Vietnam War; public diplomacy; the United States and the 1950s

Title: Sheffield and Slavery in the Atlantic World c.1760-1888

Modern European History, transnational / international history, legal history, 20th Century Germany, Cold War history, human rights, the modern state and national security, history of treason

20th Century British Political history; Women's and gender history; British Fascism; history of race & ethnicity.

Title: Tactile alphabets and cultures of correspondence within the British blind community: writing letters before the standardisation of Braille, c.1840-1905

Title: The Princess and the New Woman: Portrayals of the 'New Woman' in comparison with Alexandra, the Princess of Wales in the British Press, 1863 to 1925

Title: Historical methodologies of interpretation and analysis: defining experience and identity in narratives of mental illness, c.1800-2000

Title: Stalinism’s Promise: Images of the Soviet City, 1928-1941

Western Europe since 1945; Cold War in Europe; Modern Greek and Balkan History; democracy and European identity; press and public opinion; European integration; peace movements.

Women, gender and Islam in South Asia

Title: Das Magazin and its readers: State and society in the German Democratic Republic, 1954 - 1990.

Title: ‘We Really are Doing Nothing’: The British Government, Humanitarianism, and the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1923

Politics & religion in early modern England, Ireland and Europe; the Church of England 1560-1700; early modern university disputations; anonymity; perceptions of East & West in 19th & 20th centuries.

Senior Lecturer in History: post 1800

19th & 20th-century Britain, Germany and Italy; social policy; legal history

Title: The Lived Experiences of Working-Class Chinese and Anglo-Chinese in London, Liverpool and Manchester, 1906-1946

U.S. foreign relations history; Vietnam War; history of development

Historian of twentieth-century Britain, focusing on political change and media history.

Modern German social, cultural & political history.

Title: International Town Twinning: cultural diplomacy and grass roots activism in the Cold War

Title: How are memory and commemoration of ongoing conflict formed, sustained and changed within the Korean peninsula?