Projects (51)

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.

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

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

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.

White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2021

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.

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 - Mar 31, 2026

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.

British Academy Visiting Fellowships - Professor Dale Turner Aug 1, 2018 - Feb 28, 2019

Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois Apr 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
This project will showcase cultures of diplomacy between the British Crown and the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), focusing specifically on the range of objectives listed below. Although the processes surrounding settlement of American lands have been expl... Read More about Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois.

Oxfam and the history of war, health and humanitarianism May 20, 2019 - Dec 19, 2021

What Would Nixon Do?:The Forgotten Republican Roots of American Environmentalism’ Sep 1, 2019 - Mar 2, 2023
At a critical juncture in environmental history, when conventional warnings are dismissed by conservative voters as ‘fake news’, the research will engage with conservative and Republican traditions by asking: ‘What Would Nixon Do?’ The study will ex... Read More about What Would Nixon Do?:The Forgotten Republican Roots of American Environmentalism’.

United Nations Television in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina Jul 22, 2019 - Sep 30, 2021
This network brings together historians, film scholars, museum professionals, migration researchers, peacebuilding experts, journalists, filmmakers, and survivors of displacement and genocide to re-examine the work of United Nations Television (UNTV)... Read More about United Nations Television in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.