We host one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK. Staff research interests are wide-ranging, including the study of: economic development financial history energy policy globalisation slavery urban history consumption material culture museums and collecting leisure religious belief popular culture medicine and disease gender sexuality the family The diversity of our research means we can support students’ economic and social history study in a vast range of time periods and geographical regions and from the early modern period to the present day. Particular areas of expertise available for research are: culture and society in early modern Britain slavery in the Atlantic world since 1700 the material culture of gender in 18th-century Britain urban society and civil society in historical context cinema and society in modern Britain gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960 energy policy in Britain since 1920 the economic history of China in the 20th century the history of health and medicine in Britain since 1750 The University’s economic and social historians host three research groups: material and visual cultures of the past enlightenment and popular culture and economic and social history.