Research
History staff members' research is national, international, and transnational in nature. It spans a thousand years and several continents, utilising a range of methods, from historical biography to large-scale quantitative analyses of migrant populations. Historians at Northumbria have associations with interdisciplinary research, working in particular with specialists in literature, politics, sociology and anthropology. For details on current research, please visit the pages of our History research groups, as well as those of our collaborative research projects.
A number of major book projects are currently underway, including International Tolstoyans 1880-1940; President Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Movement; and The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America. Please visit the publications' page for details on works already in print. Further to these writing projects, three international journals are edited by Northumbria historians. Don MacRaild is editor, and Tanja Bueltmann is reviews editor, of Immigrants & Minorities, a major outlet for research into the history of immigration and related studies. Its coverage is international and the journal also supports an extensive review section.Moreover, Michael Cullinane is reviews editor of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, a multi- and inter-disciplinary journal embracing, among other areas, History, International Relations and Security Studies.
Members of the History group engage with academic audiences through high-quality publications and presentations at major conferences. Regularly invited to present seminars and keynotes at other universities, the historians at Northumbria also maintain strong network associations with specialists in other countries, from the United States and Canada, to Ireland, Germany, Italy, Greece and New Zealand. Team members also participate in activities that aim to disseminate research findings to a wider, lay audience. For instance, historians publish their research findings on-line and in popular history magazines, such as History Today, History Scotland and History Ireland, and participate in television documentaries and radio programmes. Details on these publications and public engagement are included on staff pages.
Current projects have yielded research and consultancy funding from a wide variety of sources, including the AHRC, ESRC, the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, the Marc Fitch Fund, the Canadian government, the Royal Irish Academy, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Roosevelt Study Center.
Many of the projects we are involved in attract the interest of future generations of researchers. The historians thus have a growing number of postgraduate students who contribute enormously to the work we do. To explore what our PGR students are working on, please visit the postgraduate research pages. Moreover, fresh, new research training programmes, particularly the recently launched MRes, are designed to strengthen our provision and expand an already lively, engaged postgraduate community.
