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Research projects

Our research is both diverse and innovative, focusing on the interaction between cultural, social and political history, ranging from antiquity to the 21st century, and covering Britain, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. This page provides an overview of selected current and past research projects. For full details of research interests and activities please see our staff pages.

Selected current research projects

Project title

Grant holder

Funded by

Dates

The Birkbeck Pain Project (Rhetorics of Pain)

 Professor Joanna Bourke Wellcome Trust 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2012

Communities of Belief in Medieval Languedoc

 Professor John Arnold Leverhulme Trust 1 May 2010 to 20 April 2011

AR.C.H.I.ves

A comparative history of archives

in late medieval and early modern Italy

 Dr Filippo de Vivo Funded by a European Research Council [http://erc.europa.eu/] Starting Grant
Organised Crime in Germany, 1918-1948 Dr Christian Goeschel Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2009 to
30 September 2011
The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax Professor Vanessa Harding Arts and Humanities Research Council 1 October 2007 30 August 2010
Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity & Status in Early Modern London Professor Vanessa Harding Economic and Social Research Council 1 June 2008 to 31 May 2011
In Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: The Deployment & Development of Psychoanalysis in the Allied Struggle against Germany Professor Daniel Pick Wellcome Trust 1 September 2008 to 31 August 2010
Contested Island: Heligoland and the Anglo-German Relationship, 1807-1952 Dr Jan Rueger National Maritime Museum 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2011
Into the abyss: the Nazi concentration camps (1942-45) Dr Nick Wachsmann
 British Academy 1 August 2009 to 30 April 2010
Diplomacy as Theatre: the Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Rise of Asia in the 20th Century Dr Naoko Shimazu The British Academy 1 September 2010 to 31st August 2011
Japan and East Asia National Identities Education Network Dr Naoko Shimazu, Dr Julia Lovell The Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2013

Selected past research projects

Past research project Led by
Before the Holocaust: Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 Dr Nick Wachsmann (Project Director)
Dr Christian Goeschel (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow)
British printed images to 1700 Professor Michael Hunter (Project Director)
Cultures of Consumption Professor Frank Trentmann
People in place: families, households and housing in early modern London Professor Vanessa Harding
Private life in Stalin's Russia Professor Orland Figes
Reconstruction in the Immediate Aftermath of War: A Comparative Study of Europe, 1945-50 Dr. David Feldman
Scribal culture in Italy, 1450-1650
 Dr F. de Vivo
The Robert Boyle Project Professor Michael Hunter (Project Director)