People - History group
Join the History group at the University of Hertfordshire and study alongside a highly respected team of academics.
Academic staff
We are leaders in our respective areas of expertise, producing critically acclaimed work on an international level, and securing competitive grant funding for innovative and wide reaching projects.
Find out more about our academic staff members.
Recent and postdoctoral fellows
Dr David Celetti
Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Professor John Styles on the ERC project ‘Spinning in the Age of the Spinning Wheel’.
Andrew Green
Senior Research Fellow, media advisor and co-ordinator of oral history events.
Dr Francesca Matteoni
Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Professor Owen Davies on the Wellcome Trust project ‘Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse’.
Dr Julie Moore
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, co-ordinator of the Remembering the First World War project.
Dr David Postles
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Matthew White
Visiting Research Fellow
Postgraduate students
Simon Collier
Information Research Department Propaganda in the Middle East and Africa, 1954-1963
Alice Dolan
Linen an Early Modern Necessity
Bridget Long
British Patchwork, 1680-1815
Jack Mockford
Paper Money, Forgers and Forgery, 1776-1826
Friedrich Newman
The Social and Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the Nineteenth Century
Paul Thompson
Hertford in the Great War
Shelley Tickell
Shoplifting in 18th-century England
Janice Turner
An Anatomy of a Disorderly Neighbourhood: Rosemary Lane and Rag Fair in the late 17th and 18th centuries
Postgraduate work
- Download a full list of our current and recently completed PhD theses.
- Our history research students have set up their own History Lab, with a varied programme of activities and events.
- Watch PhD research student Rudi Newman discuss ‘What the Titanic means to me’ for The National Archives.