Staff research in History Back to 'History research' Staff in the Department of History are engaged in a wide range of research projects covering all aspects of history. Some recent examples are below. The Making of Monoculture: A Global History James Watt 2019 Im Strudel. Eine Umweltgeschichte der modernen Welt Blood and Treasure: the Social and Cultural History of Money during the First World War Defining the Global Middle Ages The Cultural Lives of the Middling Sort: Writing and Material Culture, 1560-1660 Decline: a Cultural History The Aftermath: the Great War and the making of 1920s Britain Angelica Schuyler Church: An American Aristocrat in Revolutionary London Bearers of the Cross: Material Religion in the Crusading World 1095-1300 Children Born of War - past, present and future Birmingham Seminar for Environmental Humanities (BISEMEH) Understanding cities in the pre-modern history of Northeast Asia, c. 200-1200 New times revisited: writing the history of 1980s Britain ‘Exterminate all the Brutes’: Modern Settler Colonialism and the Future of Endangered Races The Collaborative European Digital Archival Research Infrastructure (CENDARI) Nature and the new imperialism: Europe and the ecological transformation of the tropical world in the 19th and 20th centuries