

Our Expertise
Liverpool historians are leading experts in the field and publish numerous books and journal articles. To find out about their individual publications, please see our staff profiles.
They regularly peer review for academic journals, publishers, and funding councils, including the AHRC, American Council of Learned Societies, British Academy, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust, as well as research councils in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Kazakhstan and Spain. Many also sit on journal editorial boards, or edit journals, including The Anthropocene Review (Georgina Endfield) and Journal of Southern African Studies (Diana Jeater), and edit book series, including the Brill Series on the Early Middle Ages (Bonnie Effros), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies (Elaine Chalus), Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge (Harald Braun) and Liverpool University Press’ Eighteenth-Century Worlds (Mark Towsey). In addition, they have held fellowships at Harvard University, University of Aarhus, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and Huntington Library, amongst others.
All are members of learned societies, and often play a leading role in running them, including the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers British Association for Chinese Studies, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, and Society for Renaissance Studies.
Many Liverpool historians are elected fellows of the Royal Historical Society (RHS), while our Head of Department, Elaine Chalus, sits on its Council. We have previously been proud to take part in the RHS Postgraduate Speaker Series.
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If you're thinking of applying for a PhD, please get in touch with one of our experts to discuss your research plans and proposal before you submit an application.
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Christianity and missionaries
Harald Braun
Alex Buchanan
Roland Clark
Marios Costambeys
Bonnie Effros
Martin Heale
Diana Jeater
Andrew Redden
Robin Whelan
Civil Society, networks and associations
Laura Balderstone
Anna Bocking-Welch
Harald Braun
Alex Buchanan
Samantha Caslin
Elaine Chalus
Roland Clark
Marios Costambeys
Bonnie Effros
Deana Heath
Jon Hogg
Michael Hopkins
Stephen Kenny
James Lowry
Andrew Redden
Class and professionalisation
Alex Buchanan
Marios Costambeys
Andrew Davies
Cheryl Hudson
Stephen Kenny
Laura Sandy
Gender, sexuality, women and the body
Sam Caslin
Elaine Chalus
Roland Clark
Andrew Davies
Bonnie Effros
Deana Heath
Diana Jeater
Stephen Kenny
Laura Sandy
Historiography
Alex Buchanan
Marios Costambeys
Bonnie Effros
Jon Hogg
Cheryl Hudson
Damien Kempf
Mark Towsey
Robin Whelan
Human rights, humanitarianism and development
Anna Bocking-Welch
Deana Heath
James Lowry
Andrew Redden
Laura Sandy
Identity
Harald Braun
Elaine Chalus
Bonnie Effros
Jon Hogg
Cheryl Hudson
Diana Jeater
Mark Towsey
Robin Whelan
International relations and internationalism
Knowledge Production
Will Ashworth
Harald Braun
Alex Buchanan
Bonnie Effros
Jon Hogg
Cheryl Hudson
Diana Jeater
Stephen Kenny
Material culture, business, commodities and consumption
Will Ashworth
Alex Buchanan
Elaine Chalus
Marios Costambeys
Bonnie Effros
Graeme Milne
Beatrice Penati
Maritime and migration
Nationalism and Citizenship
Roland Clark
Bonnie Effros
Deana Heath
Cheryl Hudson
Beatrice Penati
Political Economy
Politics, political thought and democracy
Popular culture and politics
Laura Balderstone
Elaine Chalus
Roland Clark
Andrew Davies
Jon Hogg
Andrew Redden
Robin Whelan
Print culture, communications and ideas
Harald Braun
Alex Buchanan
Deana Heath
Damien Kempf
Stephen Kenny
Andrew Redden
Mark Towsey
Race and ethnicity
Anna Bocking-Welch
Andrew Davies
Bonnie Effros
Deana Heath
Cheryl Hudson
Diana Jeater
Stephen Kenny
Beatrice Penati
Laura Sandy
Robin Whelan
The reformation and counter-reformation
Revolution and resistance
Harald Braun
Charles Esdaile
Cheryl Hudson
Beatrice Penati
Andrew Redden
Laura Sandy
Rural society, animals and the environment
Georgina Endfield
Damien Kempf
Deana Heath
Chris Pearson
Beatrice Penati
Science, technology and medicine
Will Ashworth
Alex Buchanan
Deana Heath
Jon Hogg
Stephen Kenny
Chris Pearson
Sally Sheard
Slavery, abolition and emancipation
Social Movements
Sovereignty, the state and bureaucracy
Harald Braun
Marios Costambeys
Deana Heath
Michael Hopkins
Cheryl Hudson
James Lowry
Robin Whelan
Urbanisation and the built environment
Laura Balderstone
Alex Buchanan
Elaine Chalus
Andrew Davies
Jon Hogg
Cheryl Hudson
Graeme Milne
Chris Pearson
Violence, crime and policing
Harald Braun
Andrew Davies
Deana Heath
Chris Pearson
Andrew Redden
Laura Sandy