Collaborative Research Projects
Historians at Northumbria are involved in a number of important collaborative research projects, some of which have attracted external funding. Please click on the individual project links below for details on these projects. Information on research and funding awards received for individual projects can be found on the staff pages.
The hidden English Diaspora in North America
This AHRC-funded project seeks to explode enduring historical mythologies about the absence of a strong ethnic identity among the English who emigrated from their homeland between the 17th and 20th centuries:
Surnames, Forenames and the Application of Isonymy to Historical Data
An interdisciplinary endeavour which unites methodologies from biological anthropology with those from history to explore the origins, distribution and nature of the Irish communities of nineteenth-Century Britain:
The History of Manchester Canals, their Trade, and their Economic Impact
Focusing on Manchester, this three-year English Heritage funded project provides the first comprehensive historical account of canals during the first Industrial Revolution:
Wellcome Trust Programme Award - Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948
Prof Don MacRaild is the Northumbria partner in a Swansea-led project which uses the coal industry to explore how understandings and experiences of disability were affected by industrialization between 1780 and the end of the Second World War:
