Projects (88)

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.

Mahogany, Enslaved Africans, Miskito Indigenous People at Chiswick House, Kenwood and Marble Hill, North London Sep 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2025
Mahogany was once a highly esteemed luxury commodity, but now is emblematic of environmental degradation. This studentship will explore the cultural significance and exceptional intercultural narrative surrounding mahogany in U.K. heritage environmen... Read More about Mahogany, Enslaved Africans, Miskito Indigenous People at Chiswick House, Kenwood and Marble Hill, North London.

Ideas Fund: The Boothferry we want Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2022
This research is part of the Ideas Fund. I am a researcher supporting a local community group: Hu4 – the Boothferry we Want. The project is aiming to: 1) reduce isolation for older and vulnerable people; 2) understand residents perspectives on the lo... Read More about Ideas Fund: The Boothferry we want.

By the rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell's Hull Oct 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020
https://risingtide.hull.ac.uk/

This project engages new and young audiences with the story of ‘tide of Humber’ poet, Andrew Marvell (1621-78), highlighting Marvell’s relationship with Hull and the Humber in the lead-up to Marvell’s 400th birthday... Read More about By the rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell's Hull.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Economic History Society Coordination Project Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Externally funded post, funded by Economic History Society (EHS).
Please approve this so this can be immediately processed to Post Award, this is not a Research application but rather a post to be funded by the Economic History Society with a small... Read More about Economic History Society Coordination Project.

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

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

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.

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.

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