Writing history

Writing History

Researchers in the School of History carry out ground-breaking research from the medieval to the contemporary period that shapes scholarly and popular conversations about the past locally, nationally, and internationally in important ways. 

As the culmination of sustained research into a topic, monographs not only make a substantial, original contribution to the discipline but also represent a huge achievement for the author. The School of History is proud to celebrate the innovative and engaging books produced by our researchers. Follow the links below to read interviews with the authors and learn more about their books. 

The cover of Laura King living with the dead. A photograph of a women in the 1920s wearing a beret and holding a bicycle, against an image of a wooden background. Living with the Dead

Living with the Dead

Laura King, Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2025)

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The cover of The Dead Sea. A Byzantinen mosaic of the sea showing hourses, palms, boats and fish. The Dead Sea

The Dead Sea

Nir Arielli, The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History (Yale University Press, 2025)

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The cover of Andrea Major's Reimagining Empire. A black and white portrait photograph of a man with the text 'Reimagining Empire in India' in yellow Reimagining Empire in India

Reimagining Empire in India

Andrea Major, Reimagining Empire in India: George Thompson, Anti-Slavery Activism, and the Global Networks of British Colonial Reform, 1831-1858 (Bloomsbury, 2025)

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Cover of Maroula Perisanidi, Masculinity in Byzantium Masculinity in Byzantium

Masculinity in Byzantium

Maroula Perisanidi, Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200: Scholars, Clerics and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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The cover of Nosotras las refugiadas Nosotras, Las Refugiadas

Nosotras, Las Refugiadas

Alba Martínez, Nosotras, Las Refugiadas. Género, Identidades y Experiencias de las Españolas Refugiadas en Francia (1939-1978) (Comares, 2024)

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The cover of All His Spies. Elizabethan men wearing ruffs and black clothes sit next to a table covered with a red tablecloth. All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

Stephen Alford, All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil (Allen Lane, 2024) 

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The cover of a book on a red background. The main image is of eighteenth-century British soldiers. A History of the British Army, 1783-1815

A History of the British Army, 1783-1815

Kevin Linch, A History of the British Army, 1783-1815 (Pen & Sword, 2024) 

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Book cover of "The Soviet Sixties" by Robert Hornsby. The background is blue and orange. It has black and white photos of a rocket ship, an astronaut and a supermodel. The Soviet Sixties

The Soviet Sixties

Robert Hornsby, The Soviet Sixties (Yale University Press, 2023)

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The book cover of Nicaragua Must Survive by Eline van Ommen Nicaragua Must Survive

Nicaragua Must Survive

Eline van Ommen, Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, 2023)

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Baldwin of Bourcq

Alan Murray, Baldwin of Bourcq: Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem, 1100-1131 (Routledge, 2022)

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The Capital of Free Women

Danielle Terrazas Williams, The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (Yale University Press, 2022)

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The cover of the Age of Mass Child Removal on a purple background. Cover shows children being questioned by an official. The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain

The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain

Peter Anderson, The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain: Taking, Losing, and Fighting for Children, 1926-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2021)

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