Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England Nov 1, 2017 - Apr 30, 2022
This project examines forms of community flood risk management in the past in the form of IDBs and their precursors, to determine their viability as a model for future policy-making. It develops an approach that views flood as a social construction a... Read More about Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England.

Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death Feb 1, 2017 - Jul 12, 2017
From 2012-2016 the multi-disciplinary AHRC Research Network "Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death" investigated the
changing face of contemporary death, bereavement and commemoration. The current project seeks to bring the network's
w... Read More about Crossing Over: New Narratives of Death.

Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution Oct 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
Historians hold these truths to be self-evident: that the ideological origins of the American Revolution lie in arguments about political rights, which were conducted exclusively within English and European frameworks of political ideas. This project... Read More about Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution.

Gender, Debt And Family Relations: The Temples Of Stowe Jul 17, 2017 - Sep 16, 2017

New Music Biennial Evaluation Sep 1, 2016 - Apr 30, 2019
The Hull City of Culture year provided a unique opportunity for researchers to evaluate the musical aspects already scheduled to take place both leading into and during 2017. Outlined below is the research and evaluation exercise that relates directl... Read More about New Music Biennial Evaluation.

GCRF: The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa Sep 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2021
The Antislavery Knowledge Network offers the first extended effort to address slavery as a core development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa via innovative approaches from the arts and humanities that deliver community-engaged antislavery work. Focusi... Read More about GCRF: The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Risks Hazards Disasters and Cultures Exploring an Integrated Humanities Natural Sciences and Disaster Studies Approach Mar 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2017

Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found Jun 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2020
A guided walk around the area associated with Hubert Nicholson’s East Coast novel Sunk Island (1956) focusing on specific geographical features and including readings from the novel, followed by a ‘Yorkshire Tea’ in Holy Trinity Church and a rehears... Read More about Hubert Nicholson: Lost and Found.

Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards Sep 28, 2015 - Dec 31, 2018

The Last Ice Age Apr 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2022
The overarching aim of the project is to enhance knowledge and understanding of the scale, character and significance of the Norwegian natural ice business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The overseas trade in ice will be an... Read More about The Last Ice Age.

Hazards, Tipping Points, Adaptation and Collapse in the Indo-Pacific World Jan 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2021

Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France, 1909 - 1989 Jun 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2021
Not only is the history of first aid a complex and fascinating topic in its own right, allowing the boundaries between medical practice and safe public practice of healthcare techniques to be understood, but a thorough study of the history of first a... Read More about Crossing Boundaries: The History of First Aid in Britain and France, 1909 - 1989.

Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents Jul 1, 2012 - Jun 30, 2018
Disasters in seismically-prone regions are the outcome of physical hazards interacting with a vulnerable population (Wisner et al, 2004). Just as these disasters are ‘co-produced’, so research on increasing people's resilience to withstand, recover a... Read More about Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents.

Thames Consortium’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme Oct 1, 2014 - Sep 30, 2017
The project investigates the role of women as plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses, in law suits brought before the late 17thcentury Court of Chancery. It will be the first research to use TNA's newly-searchable early-modern catalogue data created un... Read More about Thames Consortium’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.

Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750 Feb 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022
'Going to Chancery' will lead to a completely new cultural history of the early-modern equity court of Chancery. The project offers a revised interpretation of the organization of family finances and emotional exchange. The research will form a colla... Read More about Going to Chancery: Gender, Family and Law in England, 1550-1750.

Prison Culture & Creative Writing Sep 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2020

England's First Colony: State-Building on an Irish Frontier, 1199-1265 Sep 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2022
The spectre of empire still haunts the history of Ireland. Once a mainstay of Anglo-centric narratives of colonisation, historians of the medieval conquest of Ireland now shun the concept in favour of models of decentralised power and authority. This... Read More about England's First Colony: State-Building on an Irish Frontier, 1199-1265.

Lloyd's Register Foundation Thomas Chapman Scholar Jan 28, 2019 - Jan 31, 2025

Safety in the Trawl Fisheries and Merchant Shipping: An Appraisal of the Archives Apr 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2021
We propose to appraise the archival holdings of the LRF's Heritage and Education Centre and records held in selected repositories in east central and north east England (from the Humber to the Tyne). The focus of the appraisal will be material relati... Read More about Safety in the Trawl Fisheries and Merchant Shipping: An Appraisal of the Archives.

Resilient humanitarianism: A History of The League of Red Cross Societies, 1919-1991 Mar 1, 2019 - Feb 28, 2023
Global humanitarian crises are at a significant high due to ongoing conflict and natural disasters. Nation states, bodies such as the United Nations and humanitarian organisations seem incapable of offering lasting solutions to intractable situations... Read More about Resilient humanitarianism: A History of The League of Red Cross Societies, 1919-1991.