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.
Below is a selection of our current projects:
Architecture and Society in an Age of Reform 1760-1840
Alexandrina Buchanan & Mark Towsey
Colonial Terror: Torture, Violence and the Unmaking of the World
Cultures of Political Counsel
Dark Medicine: Racism, power and the culture of American Slavery
Digital Panopticon
Dogs and the City: Sniffing the Past in London, New York and Paris
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
The Irish Sea in the Middle Ages Research Network (ISMARN)
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
Liverpool Newspaper Heritage
Music for Hope: Musical Counterculture in Post-Conflict Bajo-Lempa, El Salvador 1996-2021
The Power and the Water: environmental connectivities
The Sisters of Mersey
Spaces of experience and horizons of expectation: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future
Sudan Memory: a partnership for conserving and promoting Sudanese cultural and documentary heritage
Thomas Rickman, Architect and Antiquary
Tracing the Past
Alexandrina Buchanan, Nicholas Webb
The Viking Age in the Irish Sea and cross cultural interaction
Youth Gangs and Street Violence in Late Victorian Manchester
Noteable Past Projects
- Mapping Memory
- Mr Seel’s Garden
- Atlantic Sounds
- Community Libraries