Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 11/11/2009. Current Research: Cath Feely, PhD student I am currently writing up my Ph.D. thesis, provisionally titled `“What Marx Really Meant”: Karl Marx’s Capital and radical book cultures in Britain, 1881-1945′, which will be submitted in 2010. This project traces the British reception of Marx’s magnum…

Current research: Selina Todd The ‘working-class’ are demonised and romanticised in equal measure today. My research is exploring how this situation came about. I’m interested in the changes that occurred in ordinary people’s lives after the Second World War, a period of great social, cultural and economic upheaval. Alongside studying how welfare changed living standards,…

Current Research: Professor Peter Gatrell Ever since doing research on the refugee crisis in the Russian Empire during the First World War (the subject of a book I published in 1999) I have been working on histories of displaced people, mostly in Russia and Eastern Europe but also further afield. I have nearly finished writing…

Current Research: Paulo Drinot The study of venereal disease, prostitution, and sexuality is well established in Latin American history but the literature on Peru is scant. My research, which has received funding from the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy, seeks to make an original contribution to this historiography and expand upon it by exploring…