Current Research Grants & Projects
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Running into Empire: Abolition and the Fugitive Slave Question in British Colonial Africa
Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow
Dr Richard Anderson
Fugitive Slaves of West Africa
British Academy (£8,870.56)
Dr Richard Anderson
History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British
Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966
British Academy - Global Challenges Research Fund (£45,545)
January 2018 - January 2019
Embodying the Aristocrat: A History of the Eighteenth-Century Elite Male Body
The Leverhulme Trust (£86,183)
A head for a tooth: violence in fascist Italy’s path to a Mediterranean empire
The Leverhulme Trust(£89,352)
January 2018 - December 2020
Dr L Fenoglio
"Princely states in British India: rethinking the economics of empire, 1857-1947"
The Leverhulme Trust( £88,512)
September 2017 - August 2020
Dr K Boehme
War widows and maimed soldiers
AHRC (£598,680)
June 2017 - May 2021
Institutional strategic support fund
Wellcome Trust( £45,000)
January 2017 - December 2021
Kurdistan International Studies Unit
The Kurdistan Regional Government (£200,000)
October 2016 - September 2018
Insular Manuscripts AD 650-850: Network of Knowledge
The Leverhulme Trust (£87,507)
October 2016 - September 2019
A Post-War History of Leicester 1945-1962
Heritage Lottery Fund (£27,000)
September 2016 - August 2017
Flood and Flow: Place-Names and the Changing Hydrology of River-Systems
Names and the Changing Hydrology of River-Systems
The Leverhulme Trust (£128,725)
August 2016 - July 2018
Healthy Citizens? Migrant Identity and Constructions of Health in Postwar Australia
Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities (£162,171)
October 2014 – September 2017
Consuming Authenticities: Time, Place and the Past in the Construction of “Authentic” Foods and Drinks
Fear Across Borders: Peasant Violence and Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe
Leverhulme Trust
October 2013-September 2016
Dr Irina Marin
Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930
ESRC (£430,000)
September 2013-August 2016
Professor David Gentilcore
Charnwood Roots
Victoria County History Trust (£384,000)
August 2013-July 2017
Dr Julie Attard
The Carceral Archipelago: transnational circulations in global perspective, 1415-1960
European Research Council (€1.493m)
2013-2018
Professor Clare Anderson
Crusading in the Fifteenth Century
Leverhulme Trust (£108,681)
2013-2015
Professor Norman Housley
The Habitable City: Chinese Urban History in a Global Context
British Academy Grant (£29,680)
October 2012-September 2015
Dr Toby Lincoln
Disputed Bodies: Narratives of Medical Research in Europe, c. 1940s to 2001
Wellcome Trust Grant (£104,174)
February 2012-January 2017
Dr Elizabeth Hurren
Motor Cities: Automobility and the Urban Environment in Nagoya, Japan, and Birmingham, England, 1955-1973
A Scholarly Edition of Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae
AHRC Research Grant
September 2011-August 2014
Professor John Coffey
Pauper letters and petitions for poor relief in Germany and Great Britain, 1770-1914
AHRC Project Grant (£241,808)
May 2011-April 2014
Professor Steven King
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions
Leverhulme Trust (£1.37m)
January 2011-January 2016
Professor Joanna Story
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Wellcome Trust
2011
Professor Pete King and Dr Elizabeth Hurren (Co-investigators)
Health Care in Public and Private
Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (£100,000)
June 2010-May 2014
Professor Steven King
