Modern British and Irish History

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The University of Cambridge has an international reputation as a centre of excellence in modern British and Irish history, and members of the History Faculty are playing an important role in shaping the field with their innovative research.

This Research Theme includes one of the largest groups of professional historians working on British and Irish history since c. 1750 anywhere in the world, along with large numbers of postgraduate and post-doctoral scholars, so historians at Cambridge enjoy an exceptionally vibrant intellectual culture. Within this community, it can be found a wide range of academic specialisms and approaches to studying the past.

Cambridge historians of modern Britain and Ireland have been at the forefront of research on the histories of politics, race and empire, social and economic change, feminism, sexuality, fertility and mortality, religion, heritage, national identity, education and transnational cultural exchanges. Researchers cover all aspects of gender history in Britain and Ireland since 1750, with special interests in family policy, suffrage, feminism, sexuality, gender and employment.

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