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…

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,…