Centre for Historical Research

The Centre for Historical Research is one of the University of Wolverhampton's most active Research Centres. The Centre has an established research culture with a number of its publications classed as world-leading in the last Research Assessment Exercise.

The centre sits with the School of Law, Social Sciences and Commnications.

Recent highlights

• over 20 national and international conferences and workshops run over the last 10 years
• current research projects for the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the European Union, among others.

Impacts

Research at the Centre for Historical Research aims to bridge between past and present Britain and the rest of the world.

Research areas

The Centre is led by a team of internationally respected researchers; investigating topics as diverse as:

Class, Community and Identity: building on established work on labour movements, and developing new interests in popular culture, the relationship between gender, class and identity and the uses of auto/biography.

Conflict Studies: military history; the history of intelligence and security; terrorism, insurgency and conflict resolution.

German History: migration and minorities; National Socialism and the Second World War; post-war humanitarian assistance; the GDR and German unification.

Retailing and Consumption History: the early modern retail trade, and the retailing and consumption of commodities for domestic use.

More information

Tel: 01902 322 484  |  Email: lssc-enquiries@wlv.ac.uk  |  Web: www.wlv.ac.uk/chr