Category: Research

Based at the Centre for the History of the Sciences, and working in partnership with the Science Museum, the Metropolitan Science research project is funded … Read more

Head of School Dr Juliette Pattinson looks back at one of Britain’s most memorable domestic policies during the Second World War. Eighty years ago this … Read more

In the tenth century, Latin authors in Britain had a habit of using particularly unusual and obscure vocabulary in their texts. Some of these words … Read more

Labour migration has been of crucial importance in southern Africa for centuries, with large numbers of people having moved across the region to mines, farms … Read more

Helen Franklin, Project Officer for ‘Oral Health Inequalities, Oral Health Cultures in England 1870-1970’, reports on her trip to the Australian and New Zealand Society … Read more

‘Oral Health Inequalities, Oral Hygiene Cultures in England, 1870-1970’, a project led by Dr Claire L. Jones, Lecturer in the History of Medicine, was awarded … Read more

‘Lungs for the City’: Health, Sustainability and Resilience in the Globalised Urban Park (1800-2015) is a project led by Professor Karen Jones, Professor of Environmental … Read more

‘Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good’, a project coordinated by Professor Ulf Schmidt of the School of History … Read more

Waterloo200 is a registered charity that was set up and funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport with a view to promoting and … Read more

On 5th July 1888, approximately 1400 female workers walked out of Bryant and May’s match making factory in Bow, East London, in protest over low … Read more