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OU staff investigate an array of musical practices in a variety of contexts, both historically and in the present day. Topics include performance (and performance techniques from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first; musical and textual sources; and film music and recordings.

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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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Research is at the heart of the Philosophy Department at the OU. There are nine full-time members of staff, all of whom are active researchers, who specialise in a range of subjects across the disciplines.

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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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Research into the ancient and modern reception of antiquity focuses on how the texts, images and ideas of Greek and/or Roman culture have subsequently been transmitted, adapted, rewritten and appropriated. Staff in the Department of Classical Studies' also have particular interests in the relationship between Greek and Roman cultures within antiquity.

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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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Artistic networks, 1300-1550 is a research group based in the Department of Art History. It includes members of staff working on art produced from the 14th through to the 16th centuries in a diverse group of territories, including Italy, the Low Countries, Spain and Byzantium.

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