Research projects

Historians at Liverpool work on a variety of individual and collaborative research projects. Their research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), British Academy, British Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Independent Social Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Rockefeller Archive Centre and Wellcome Trust, amongst others.

Architecture and Society in an Age of Reform 1760-1840

Alexandrina Buchanan & Mark Towsey
Colonial Terror: Torture, Violence and the Unmaking of the World

Deana Heath
Cultures of Political Counsel

Harald Braun
Dark Medicine: Racism, power and the culture of American Slavery

Stephen Kenny
Digital Panopticon

Barry Godfrey
Dogs and the City: Sniffing the Past in London, New York and Paris

Chris Pearson
How Women's Rights became Human Rights: Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism in Global History

Celia Donert
HistBEKE (Historic Built Environment Knowledge Exchange)

Harold Mytum, Alexandrina Buchanan
The Governance of Health: medical, economic and managerial expertise in Britain since 1948

Sally Sheard
The Irish Sea in the Middle Ages Research Network (ISMARN)

Marios Costambeys
Legacies of the Roma Genocide in Europe since 1945

Celia Donert
Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the 18th Century Atlantic

Mark Towsey
Life and Limb: the Toll of the American Civil War

Stephen Kenny
Liverpool Newspaper Heritage

Nick Foggo & Mark Towsey
Melting Metropolis

Chris Pearson & Kathryn Dutton
Music for Hope: Musical Counterculture in Post-Conflict Bajo-Lempa, El Salvador 1996-2021

Andrew Redden
The Power and the Water: environmental connectivities

Georgina Endfield
The Sisters of Mersey

Samantha Caslin
Spaces of experience and horizons of expectation: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future

Georgina Endfield
Sudan Memory: a partnership for conserving and promoting Sudanese cultural and documentary heritage

James Lowry
Tracing the Past

Alexandrina Buchanan, Nicholas Webb
The Viking Age in the Irish Sea and cross cultural interaction

Clare Downham
Youth Gangs and Street Violence in Late Victorian Manchester

Andrew Davies