History research highlights
For the further information about our history research, please see the History research webpages.
- Professor Jeremy Black has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2010-2012 to research the relationships between information, modernity and power. The resulting book will take information as a cause, measure and product of power, and show how these relationships have changed over the last half-millennium and shaped the modern world.
- In 2011 Dr Kate Fisher was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, and Dr Richard Toye was awarded an AHRC Fellowship to study 'The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1918-1940', while Dr Catherine Rider and Dr Matt Rendle were awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships.
- Dr Sarah Toulalan has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2010-2012 to research early modern perspectives on children and sex. She will explore medical, moral and ‘popular’ or ‘public’ views of children’s sexual knowledge and experiences (consensual and coerced) and children’s own understandings. A key aim is to unravel the ambiguities and ambivalences embedded in contemporary understanding to give a cultural context in which childhood sexual knowledge, behaviours, feelings and abuse can be understood more fully.
