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…

Current Research: Stephen Rigby I am trying to maintain my research output in three different areas. The first is the economic and social history of late medieval England. I have recently had an article accepted by Economic History Review asking whether England’s urban population grew, declined or stagnated in the later middle ages. Exactly the…

Current Research: Glyn Redworth I work on British and European history, especially Spain and the Habsburg empire, between the 15th and 17th centuries. I am now preparing an edition in English of Luisa de Carvajal’s letters, to accompany her biography, The She-Apostle, which appeared with Oxford University Press last year. I am also collaborating on…