History research

London-based, we are devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.

We are a centre of innovative research and teaching and contribute to discussion and public policy formation on antisemitism and intolerance.

We examine and make sense of internationalism in its various guises and welcome researchers at all stages of their career who share this interest.

Our work aims to enable a better understanding of the experiences, treatment and prevention of mental distress; the social, political and philosophical debates surrounding it; and its representations in literature and culture.

We provide a forum for innovative interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange in gender and sexuality studies.

We act as the focal point for social research at Birkbeck, and a hub for the dissemination and discussion of social research in London and beyond.

We aim to stimulate research, public debate and collaboration among academics and intellectuals on important public issues of our time.

The centre of Medieval and Early Modern Worlds creates a rich research community committed to the study of medieval and early modern cultures.

We explore the emergent fields of medical humanities and intercultural medicine to explore and develop the lived experience of clinicians in the everyday complexities of real-life clinical settings.

We have close links with this national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in Classics and related disciplines, hosted at Senate House.

We have close links with this centre, based in the University of London's Senate House, an important resource and meeting place for researchers from across the globe.

The Wiener Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and the Nazi era.

Our research takes a distinctive approach to end use energy demand, recognising that energy is not used for its own sake but as part of accomplishing social practices at home, at work and in moving around.

Our project examines ‘brainwashing’ in the Cold War and the roles played by psychologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts.

We are researching the histories of sexual identities and communities in Leeds, Plymouth, Brighton and Manchester since 1965.

This research looks at the connections between sexual violence, medicine, and psychiatry, across four thematic research streams.

This AHRC-funded research project seeks to bring together global, national and local historical perspectives, and to place trafficking in the context of migration, labour, and gender.

This project examines how energy has transformed daily life in the twentieth century.

Research considers the history of 500 years of non-conformist religious groups and how they have thrived in both secular and non-secular environments.

This is a collaborative research project funded by the AHRC.

This project (2013-2017) studied international organisations and movements in twentieth-century Europe through the lens of public health, medicine and medical science.

British Printed Images to 1700 is a digital library of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain.

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Our department is a centre of original, influential research, ranked sixth in the UK for its world-leading and internationally excellent research.

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School staff publish widely in respected journals across the discipline.