Research projects
Current research projects
Beyond Identity
- Grant-holder: Professor Hilary Fraser
- Grant awarding body: British Academy
- Dates: 13 September 2009 to 17 December 2010
Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
- Grant-holder: Professor Colin MacCabe
- Grant awarding body: Arts & Humanities Research Council
- Dates: 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2010
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The Nyangwe Diary of David Livingstone: Restoring the Text
- Grant-holder: Dr D. Harrison
- Grant awarding body: British Academy
- Dates: 1 June 2010 to 30 November 2011
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- Read the Birkbeck news story: Researchers reveal Dr Livingstone's darkest hour through lost letters
Voiceworks Digital Song / Text Project
- Grant-holder: Dr Carol Watts
- Grant awarding body: Arts & Humanities Research Council
- Dates: 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2011
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Completed research projects
The Censorship of the Stage in Twentieth-Century Britain
- Grant holder: Dr Helen Freshwater
- Grant awarding body: Arts & Humanities Research Council
- Dates: 1 October 2005 to 31 December 2005
Imagines Magorum: Ritual Magic in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650
- Grant holder: Dr Peter Forshaw
- Grant awarding body: British Academy
- Dates: 1 September 2005 to 31 August 2008
Lesbian Modernism: A Cultural Study
- Grant holder: Dr Joanne Winning
- Grant awarding body: Arts & Humanities Research Council
- Dates: 1 February 2006 to 31 May 2006
Modernism and the Translation of Russian Culture
- Grant holder: Dr R Beasley
- Grant awarding body: Leverhulme Trust
- Dates: 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007
- Find out about the Conference 'Russia in Britain, 1880-1940: Reception, Translation and the Modernist Cultural Agenda'
Playing Irish, performing Ireland
- Grant holder: Dr Aoife Monks
- Grant awarding bodies: British Academy; University of London Central Research Fund
- Dates: 4 May 2008 to 31 May 2008
Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinary and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850
- Grant holder: Dr Luisa Calè
- Grant awarding body: British Academy
- Find out more about this conference
Terror, Pleasure and the Medieval Jewish Image
- Grant-holder: Dr Anthony Bale
- Grant awarding body: Leverhulme Trust
- Dates: 1 October 2008 to 31 January 2009
The loss of America: loyalism and Empire
- Grant holder: Dr Carol Watts
- Grant awarding body: Leverhulme Trust
- Dates: 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
The 1980s: After the Watershed
- Grant-holder: Dr Joseph Brooker
- Grant awarding body: Arts & Humanities Research Council
- Dates: 1 February 2008 to 31 May 2008
- Find out more about the book, Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed
The shorter poems of John Lydgate
- Grant awarding body: Arts & Humanities Research Council
- Grant holder: Dr A Bale
- Dates: 1 February 2006 to 31 May 2006
Thomas Hobbes's Elementorum philosophiae sectio prima de corpore and its seventeenth-century context
- Grant holder: Dr S Clucas
- Grant awarding body: University of London
- Dates: 1 January 2008 to 30 April
