Current Research: Chris Godden Our colleague Dr. Chris Godden has been doing some research on the life and work of Mark Hovell, a student at Manchester before the First World War, whose promising career as an historian was cut short by the conflict. Chris has recently found a set of Hovell’s papers and we look…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 21/1/2010. Current Research: Erik Grigg, PhD student I am a part-time PhD researcher currently looking at Dark Age dykes. These, according to Dr Ryan, sounds like a Swedish Goth death metal band, but they are in fact early medieval linear earthworks (Offa’s Dyke, Wansdyke, etc) that…

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,…