History Research

Research projects

• Transforming Public Understanding of Grenada’s African Religious Heritage, Dr Shantel George
• Wallibou/Lashum project, Dr Peggy Brunache
• Art and Inequality, Professor Sam Cohn
• Exploring new cross-college ways of simulating Earth environmental impacts of orbital debris/disasters, Dr Timothy Peacock
• `We demand free labour': African and Asian migrant workers, immigration controls and the international labour movement in interwar South Africa, Dr Jelmer Vos
• Properties in case and the British Empire, Dr Andrew Mackillop
• Inventing 'reproductive rights': sex, bodies and population 1945-1995, Dr Maud Bracke
• Health Emergencies: Evidence Brief for Policy, Dr Benjamin Thomas White
• Paisley Museum Re-imagined Project, Dr Catriona MacDonald and Dr Valerie Wright
• Visual culture, state secrecy and surveillance, Dr Damien Van Puyvelde
• Building a Modern Scotland, c. 1947-2017 Professor Lynn Abrams
• Reimagining Scotland's Black Communities in the Time of COVID-19, Dr Peggy Brunache
• Runaway London: history, storytelling and escape from slavery in 17th & 18th century London, Professor Simon Newman
• Sex, Population, and Self-Determination: The rise of `Reproductive Rights' in Europe and the world, 1945-1995, Dr Maud Bracke
• Silent Hills No Longer: A Network for Revitalising Post-Genocide Communities in Western Rwanda Through Cultural Heritage Studies and Sustainable Tourism, Dr Erin Jessee
• African Coffee Histories, African Coffee Futures, Dr Jelmer Vos
• Re-costing the earth: indigenous governance of silviculture in Southern Mexico and the redesign of `sustainable development' consultation and impact assessment, Dr Julia McClure
• Community Led Science for Climate Adaptation: Supporting Indigenous Water Management in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Dr Julia McClure
• Comparing and Combining Early Modern Irish and Scottish Land Records: New Transkribus and Natural Language Processing Approaches, Dr Andrew Mackillop
• Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World, Dr Joanna Tucker
• Reviving Rwandan Cultural Heritage, Part II: Publishing for Academic, Policymaker, and Public, Dr Erin Jessee
• Beyond the Pale and Highland Line: Challanging Narratives of Archipelagic History, c. 1200-1650, Dr Martin MacGregor
• Adepts of Manhood: Masculinity and Power in Scotland's Occult Revival, 1880-1914 Dr Tanya Cheadle
• Recaptured Childhoods: exploring the lives of children liberated from the slave trade in the 19th century, Dr Christine Whyte
• The Rise of the Notion of Reproductive Rights in the 20th Century, Dr Maud Bracke
• Oral Historians Working on/in Global Political Violence: A Research Workshop Series,Professor Lynn Abrams
• The City of Glasgow and Transatlantic Slavery, c.1600-1838, Dr Karin Bowie
• Commodities of Empire Workshop, Dr Jelmer Vos
• Childcare, Family and Economy in Britain 1650 - 1850, Profesosr Alexandra Shepard
• SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East, Dr  Benjamin Thomas White
• Coffee and Colonialism in Angola, 1820-1960, Dr Jelmer Vos
• Gardens Can Grow Here: Humanitarian Place Making, Citizen Science, and Farming Expertises in Refugee Camps, Dr Benjamin Thomas White
• Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention (REFARAB), Dr Benjamin Thomas White
• The Great War Games: Waterloo Replayed Professor Tony Pollard
• The Crossroads of Memory: Changing perceptions of Pacific places and populations in news and photographic reporting of 1946 American Nuclear Testing, Dr Timothy Peacock
• 'In my end is my beginning': the memorialisation and cultural afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots in Scotland, c. 1567-2017, Dr Steven Reid
• Digital Spaces for Black British History, Dr Christine Whyte
• Perpetrators' Reflections on Kwibuka25: Accountability, Justice, and Commemoration on the 25th Anniversary of the `1994 Genocide of the Tutsi' in Rwanda, Dr Erin Jessee
• Writing Women Back into Rwandan History: An Oral History and Digital Media Project, Dr Erin Jessee
• Fleece to Fashion (Professor Lynn Abrams and Dr Sally Tuckett)
• Digitisation Strategy for Shetland Museum’s Recognised Textile Collection (Dr Roslyn Chapman)
• Stories of Knitting in The University of Glasgow (Dr Roslyn Chapman)
• Mary Queen of Scots (Dr Steven Reid)
• The Weight of the Past (Professor Peter Jackson)
• History of Humanism in the UK since 1896 (Professor Callum Brown)
• AHRC Project 'Beyond Development: Local Visions of Global Poverty' (Dr Julia McClure)
• Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Early Modern Scotland, Britain and Northern Europe 1550-1795 (Dr Karin Bowie and Professor Thomas Munck)
• Slavery Studies at Glasgow
• 'Translating Feminism: Transfers, Transgression, Transformation (1945-1991) - funded by the University of Glasgow International Partnership Development Fund (Dr Maud Bracke)
• Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century (Professor Simon Newman)
• The Practice of International History in the 21st Century Network (Professor Peter Jackson)
• Religion in Scots Law: An Audit (Professor Callum Brown)
• Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe (Professor Alex Shepard)
• Women negotiating the boundaries of justice: Britain and Ireland c.1100-c.1750 ()
• Housing, Everyday Life & Wellbeing over the long term - Leverhulme (Professor Lynn Abrams)

Project archive