History

Course Structure

1. [\'Dr Kenneth Austin, (Senior Lecturer), Correspondence and friendship networks; intellectual, cultural and religious history; Judaeo-Christian relations ; late medieval and early modern Europe; Renaissance and Reformation.\', \'Dr Victoria Bates, (Lecturer), and sexuality; childhood and adolescence; crime and forensics; Modern history of medicine and the medical humanities, including histories of the arts and health.\', \'Professor Robert Bickers, (Professor), Modern China; Shanghai, Chinese Maritime Customs Service; Sino-British relations; social, cultural and political history of colonialism and imperialism.\', \'Professor Hilary Carey, (Professor), British imperial and colonial history, religious history; history of astrology; HMC; settler colonialism\', \'Dr Fernando Cervantes, (Reader), Early modern Europe, especially Spain and Spanish America; intellectual and religious history ; late medieval.\', \'Professor Peter Coates, (Professor), animal history; Environmental history (including UK); environmental humanities; history of the American West; public history; US history\', \'Professor Tim Cole, (Professor), Digital humanities; historic landscapes; Holocaust history (especially in Hungary) ; Holocaust memory and representation ; public history.\', \'Dr Julio Decker, (Lecturer), American history since 1865; German imperial history; global history; history of capitalism; history of technology; migration ; race and racism\', \'Dr Lucy Donkin, (Lecturer), environmental humanities ; Medieval cultural history; medieval Italy; place, space and maps; religious history; visual culture\', \'Dr Marianna Dudley, (Lecturer), Environmental history and the environmental humanities ; history of recreation; military; modern British landscapes ; waves and water\', \'Dr James Freeman, (Lecturer), Contemporary British political and economic history; digital humanities ; political rhetoric\', \'Dr Juliane Furst, (Senior Lecturer), Soviet subcultures; Soviet youth in the late Stalin and the Khrushchev periods.\', \'Dr Daniel Haines, (Lecturer), colonial and post-colonial history, especially of South Asia; decolonization ; Environmental history; natural disasters\', \'Dr Erika Hanna, (Lecturer), history of cycling ; Irish history; urban history; visual culture, history of photography\', \'Dr Anke Holdenried, (Senior Lecturer), Intellectual and cultural history, in particular medieval apocalyptic beliefs, their impact on political ideology, devotional context, and artistic representation; the role of prophecy in medieval culture and society manuscript studies.\', \'Professor Ronald Hutton, (Professor), Early modern British political, military, religious and social history; the history of the ritual year in Britain and of pagan religions; witchcraft and magic in Europe.\', \'Dr Grace Huxford, (Lecturer), Cold War; oral history; prisoners of war; social history of warfare; Twentieth-century British social and cultural history\', \'Dr Evan Jones, (Senior Lecturer), 15th- to 17th-century British economic and social history; late medieval/early modern maritime history, particularly in relation to Bristol; smuggling, shipping and discovery\', \'Dr Su Lin Lewis, (Lecturer), 20th Century Asian social and cultural history, especially Southeast Asia; Afro-Asia; civil society; colonial modernity; decolonisation ; gender and feminism ; global history; migration ; Port-cities; urban heritage in Asia\', \'Dr Josie McLellan, (Reader), 20th-century European social and cultural history, especially Germany; history of gender, family and sexuality; participatory research and co-production of historical research\', \'Dr Joanna Michlic, (Lecturer), East European history; East European Jewish history; Genocide Studies, Cultural Memory Studies ; history of childhood; the Holocaust; the memory of the Holocaust\', \'Dr Noah Millstone, (Lecturer), Early modern Europe, particulary Britain and France; history of the book; political, intellectual, religious and cultural history of Western Europe in the late Renaissance; Puritanism; reason of state\', \'Dr Hugh Pemberton, (Reader), Contemporary British history from the Second World War to present; economic policy; links between History and Political Science; pensions policy since Beveridge, but particularly in the Thatcher era; the history of public administration and government; the history of the Labour party\', \'Dr Benjamin Pohl, (Lecturer), Anglo-Norman England; Cultural Memory Studies ; Europe and the British Isles; Historical Writing; Manuscript Studies ; Medieval History; Monasticism; Normandy; Palaeography and Codicology\', \'Dr William Pooley, (Lecturer), Creative History Writing ; Folklore; Gender History; Historical Anthropology; History from Below; Medical History; Modern French History (since 1789); the Occult; Witchcraft\', "Dr Simon Potter, (Reader), 19th- and 20th-century history of the \' British world\' ; history of the press and broadcasting; the impact of empire on Britain.", \'Dr Richard Sheldon, (Lecturer), 18th- and 19th-century British social and economic, especially the history of radicalism and protest movements; economic thought; history of famines and famine relief.\', \'Dr Rob Skinner, (Teaching Fellow in Modern History), Anti-apartheid; anti-colonialism and transnational political cultures; Modern African political and social history, with a particular focus on South Africa.\', \'Professor Brendan Smith, (Professor), Medieval Britain and Ireland; medieval colonialism; medieval frontier societies.\', \'Dr Richard Stone, (Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History), Early Modern social, economic, and maritime history of Britain and the Atlantic World (16th - 18th Century), in particular: trade, local history (Bristol) early America, piracy, and drinking studies (cider)\', \'Dr James Thompson, (Reader), Modern Britain; political, intellectual and cultural history.\', \'Dr Ian Wei, (Senior Lecturer), contemporary higher education policy; Intellectual culture in medieval Europe; modern and contemporary history of universities ; the medieval university of Paris; the social and political views of medieval European intellectuals\']