History Research Groups

To read more about our research groups and their activities, follow the links below. In addition to our research groups, Northumbria historians are also engaged in cross-disciplinary collaboration with colleagues across and outside our department, through our Institute for the Humanities.

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Conflict and Society

The Conflict and Society Research Group has outstanding research expertise in the history and literary representation of conflict from the Roman Empire to the modern day in a broad international context.

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Histories of Activism

Academics in this group examine how different forms of activism began to take shape in the 19th and 20th centuries. They examine political protest, the efforts of interest groups, the promotion of alternative economic and social models, as well as the measures for the protection of particular...

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Medieval & Early Modern

Research expertise in medieval and early modern Europe covers issues of female authority, religion, monarchism and republicanism. Academics carry out inter-disciplinary research on areas such as the changing institutional, material and spatial contexts of religious life...

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American Studies

The American Studies Research Group brings together scholars from across Northumbria’s History department with expertise in the history, literature, and culture of the pre-1776 North American colonies, the United States, and the Caribbean.

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Environmental Humanities

The Environmental Humanities Research Group brings together scholars from across the Department of Humanities and has particular strengths in history, literary studies and creative writing.

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Global and Transnational History

Academics in this group investigate the connections between different regions of the world. We are interested in how identities and boundaries were negotiated; how goods, ideas, beliefs, and people moved and how they were received, adapted, and transformed; in how individuals managed to organise networks across borders...

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