Welcome to the Centre for Gender History
The Centre for Gender History exists to support teaching and research in the field of Gender History. It is a vibrant community of researchers who work on themes related to gender, women’s history, the history of sexuality, and queer and trans histories. We value expansive, inclusive, and intersectional approaches to gender history; and we have a tradition of interdisciplinarity, fostering connections and collaborations between researchers working on diverse topics within and beyond the History subject area. Our knowledge of the past is enriched when we pay attention to the various, complex and contingent ways that gender, sex, and sexuality have been understood in different times and places. Our members have research expertise that ranges from the medieval period to the present and across national and regional contexts, with particular strengths in gender, work and care; childhood; gender, the law, and the state; oral history and subjectivity; gender, belief and unbelief; gender, race, and empire; the history of feminism; and queer and trans histories.
The Centre is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture in all our activities and to promoting the view that diversity is an educational asset. We recognise and seek to address the additional barriers that staff and students of colour, LGBTQ+ staff and students, disabled staff and students and others from marginalised backgrounds experience in the historical profession. We support and endorse the recommendations of the Royal Historical Society reports on equality with respect to gender; race and ethnicity; and LGBTQ+ histories and historians.