Centre for Modern and Contemporary History

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The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History was established as the principal focus for research at Birmingham on the history of Britain, Europe and the wider world since the nineteenth century.

The Centre's chief function is to provide an intellectual forum for academic staff and postgraduates working in the field of modern and contemporary history (since c. 1815). The Centre explicitly seeks to facilitate transnational and comparative research on all aspects (social, cultural, political, economic) of the history of the contemporary world.

Spanning a wide geographical and thematic range, the Centre has particular strengths in the social, political and cultural history of Britain, continental Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and North America. It also embraces a truly global perspective through members' research on non-governmental politics, international relations, conflict and the environment. It is keen to encourage study with the following themes:

• How the forces of world history have structured society and shaped the lives of people who lived through them
• Regional and local histories from a global or comparative perspectives
• The links between imperial, global and transnational histories
• The development of knowledge for understanding the contemporary world

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University of Birmingham
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