History Research Group, Portsmouth

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This History research group includes diverse scholars working on aspects of social and cultural history in America, Asia, Britain and Europe.

Key areas addressed in strategic projects are the importance of ports as sites of unique socio-cultural exchange (Port Towns and Urban Cultures), the representation of the supernatural in urban environments (Supernatural Cities), and, in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Literature, challenges to structures of authority in early modern society (Disrupted Authority). Another major research project evaluates railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland (Railway Work, Life and Death).

Other areas of focus in the research group include student activism and civil rights, gender history, and revolutionary political cultures.

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University of Portsmouth
Winston Churchill Ave
Southsea
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP