Externally funded collaborations
The History group have been very successful in generating external income to support innovative and high quality national and international research projects
Major externally funded projects
- The award-winning Old Bailey Online and associated projects London Lives, 1690-1800 and Locating London’s Past - AHRC, JISC and ESRC (Professor Tim Hitchcock)
- Spinning in the Era of the Spinning Wheel, 1400-1800 - European Research Council (Professor John Styles)
- The Cappuccino Conquests: A Trans-national History of Italian Coffee - AHRC/ESRC (Professor Jonathan Morris)
- 'Foundling Textiles' and 'Threads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-1770' - AHRC (Professor John Styles)
- 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse' - Wellcome Trust (Professor Owen Davies)
- 'Paper money forgers and forgery 1776-1826' and 'Criminal skill: coining and coiners during the long eighteenth century' - 2 AHRC collaborative doctoral awards in partnership with the Bank of England and British Museum (Dr Anne Murphy, Professor John Styles)
Community-based projects
We have also attracted significant funding to support public history projects within the community.
These include:
- de Havilland Airfield Reminiscence project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (Professor Owen Davies).
- 'Partners in History: collaborations in regional heritage' an AHRC grant to build links between the University of Hertfordshire and communities in in the region (Dr Christine Garwood and Dr Sarah Lloyd)
- 'Patterning Hitchin Lives: Clothes for Celebration, Work and Play’ funded by the Laura Ashley Foundation (Dr Jennifer Young (Creative Writing) and History colleagues and students)
- A KEEP3-funded project, ‘The History of the Chapter House of St Albans Abbey’ (Dr Sarah Lloyd)
- A KEEP3-funded project, ‘The History of Doughty’s Hospital, Norwich, 1687-2009’ (Professor Nigel Goose)
More grants
- 'Enclosure and Culture in Northamptonshire, 1700-1900' - AHRC (Professor Matthew Cragoe (University of Sussex); Professor Owen Davies, and Dr Ian Waites (Lincoln University))
- 'Questioning credit commitment' Newnham College Cambridge, major conference grant (Dr Anne Murphy, with Dr. D. D. Coffman, Newnham College)
- 'A global history of cinematic terrorism' British Academy (Professor Tony Shaw)
- 'Witchcraft and Magic in 19th century and early 20th century fiction' British Academy (Professor Owen Davies and Dr Simon White (Oxford Brookes University)