History Research

History research at the Department for Continuing Education 

The Department for Continuing Education has a long tradition of teaching and research in historical subjects. Research in the Department is currently focussed on the following areas: 

• Late medieval Britain
• Social and economic history in Britain from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century 
• The history of religion in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
• The history of decoration in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• The history of the British in India and the British Empire
• Modern British and European history
• The historic environment
• The British and Irish Civil Wars, 1640-1660
• Local history

Research highlights, past and present:​

• The Fray on the Meadow: Violence and a Moment of Government in Early Tudor England, History Workshop Journal (2017, Jon Healey) 
• The Raj at War: a People's History of India's Second World War (2015, Yasmin Khan)
• The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor relief in Lancashire 1620-1730 (2014, Jonathan Healey) This book is the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century, the first century of welfare.
• The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (2009, Angus Hawkins) The first ever full biography of the 14th Earl of Derby - the first British statesman to become prime minister three times and the longest serving party leader in modern British party politics