History Research Group

This History research group includes diverse scholars working on aspects of social and cultural history in America, Asia, Britain and Europe.

Key areas addressed are the importance of ports as sites of unique socio-cultural exchange and representation (Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures) and railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland (Railway Work, Life and Death).

Other areas of focus in the research group include student activism and civil rights, gender history, and revolutionary political cultures. The group has strong links with external partners, including the D-Day Story, Mary Rose Museum, National Railway Museum, and Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust, and collaborates with them to exchange knowledge. We hold regular research seminars and events to showcase our research as well as the work of invited speakers.

Research supervision is available in all these fields.

Research projects

Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures

The interdisciplinary Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures focuses on the past, present and future importance of urban-maritime cultures and communities within a global context.

Centre of Port Cities and Maritime Cultures Photos

Railway Work, Life and Death

Working on Britain and Ireland’s railways a century ago was incredibly dangerous, and this research project sheds light on the thousands of employees hurt or killed at work during that time.