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The research interests of members of the Department of History in this area range widely, from manufacturers to masculinity. Dr Robin Mackie specialises in business history, and relations between industry and science.

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The History of Mathematics Group conducts internationally recognised work in several areas of the history of modern mathematics, and collaborates with many historians of mathematics in Europe. A long-running interest in celestial mechanics has recently led to an investigation of the network of astronomers in the years around 1900, and an overlapping international project on the role of mathematics and mathematicians in the First World War.

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The Department of History covers a broad range of the political and social history of Britain and Europe from the late middle ages to the present, with additional expertise in imperial history and in heritage studies. It has particular strengths in policing and crime (embedded in a multidisciplinary research group), medical history, and imperial history (supported by the University's multidisciplinary Ferguson Centre for Asian and African Studies).

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Several members of the Department of History contribute to the interfaculty and interdisciplinary Heritage Studies Research Group, which also has links to the Empire and Postcolonial Research Group and the Ferguson Centre. We invite proposals which take a critical approach to understanding the role of heritage and its institutions (museums, heritage sites, trusts and government).

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We have a wide range of expertise on conflict, war and politics in the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Annika Mombauer researches German history and especially the history of the First World War, Dr Paul Lawrence has published on the history of nationalism, and Dr Christian Bailey's research has focused on European integration after 1945.

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Department of History staff working on early modern history have an interest in a wide variety of aspects of society and culture in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere in Europe in the period 1550-1750. For example, knowledge, religion and power in the Italian states (Dr Silvia De Renzi); witchcraft and society (Dr Peter Elmer); social and cultural history of the European Reformation, especially in northern Germany and Scandinavia, and Calvinist emigration (Dr Ole Peter Grell); and Britain and Ireland, on women and gender, and on patronage and finance (Professor Anne Laurence).

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The Department of History has expertise in the history of medicine in Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe from 1500 to 1900. Dr Deborah Brunton focuses on public health policies at the intersection between urban growth and medicine, Dr Silvia De Renzi on medicine in early modern Italy and the history of legal medicine.

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The Department of History have an Empire and Postcolonial Research Group, which links to the cross-faculty Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies. Areas of particular interest include the British Empire, colonial India, links between the West and the postcolonial world, empire in Asia port cities, and heritage.

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Within the Department of History, there is a specific research group devoted to the study of criminal justice history: the International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice (ICHCPJ). This Centre aims to promote and facilitate research into criminal justice history around the world and to generate the exchange of ideas between academics, criminal justice practitioners and serving police personnel.

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