Current Research: Pedro Ramos Pinto The Inequality, Social Science & History Research network, an initiative co-hosted by the Department of History and the Centre for History & Economics in Cambridge has been running a 2-year long series of events looking to bring an historical perspective to current debates on inequality. Pedro Ramos Pinto, who directs…

Current Research: Sasha Handley Dr Sasha Handley is joining us as one of our new Lecturers in Early Modern History from this September. It is great to welcome her back (Sasha had been in Manchester previously as Teaching Fellow and Simon Research Fellow), and a great opportunity to learn about her exciting research and activities,…

Stefano Della Bella, Death on a Battlefield (c. 1646-48), Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Gift of Dr. Orde Poynton, 1959   Current Research: Jenny Spinks   Dr Jenny Spinks, a new lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, has been working for the last several years on an exhibition project…

Our colleague Dr. Peter Yeandle has just published a piece in the Journal of Victorian Culture online on the Victorian precedent of occupying the steps and square outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. The article, What Would Jesus do? The “Occupation” of St. Paul’s Cathedral, February 1887 is free to view and explores the connections between religion and…