In collaboration with the University of the West Indies, Dr Laurence Brown is engaged in a project to digitise and preserve the unique historical archives of the island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean. In 2004 Hurricane Ivan destroyed Government House and many of the other public buildings on the island causing substantial losses of…

Current Research: Maiken Umbach, Professor of Modern History Space and Homeland in Nazi Germany Fascist dictatorships such as Germany between 1933 and 1945 are often described as “ultra-nationalist”, aiming at total political centralisation and the eradication of all differences between milieus, classes and regions in a single “Volksgemeinschaft” (folk community). My project challenges such views,…

Current Research: Laurence Brown This project provides a new vision of the construction of diasporic cultures in modern Britain through enabling migrants to digitally map their own life experiences. It explores the changing cultural landscapes through which Jewish and Caribbean immigrants to Manchester constructed distinctive collective identities between 1880 and 2000. Digital mapping provides new…

Current Research: Professor Hannah Barker Family and Business in the industrial revolution: men and women of the trading classes in North-West England, 1760-1820 I’m currently writing a book based on an ESRC-funded project. ‘Family and business’ which I hope will provide a novel analysis of small business families in north-west English towns between 1760 and…