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History
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Professor Martyn Bennett
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Europe, Higher Education/Universities, History, Politics , Royalty
Area(s) of expertise: England; Ireland; Scotland; United Kingdom; Graduate schools; Postgraduate research; Postgraduate research students; Oliver Cromwell; Seventeenth Century British and Irish history; The civil wars 1639-1656; Social, political military; King Charles I; King Charles II; King James VI and I; King James VII and II; King William III
Graham Black
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): History, Society
Area(s) of expertise: Museums; Robin Hood
Professor Tom Fisher
School of Art and Design
Subject(s): History, Design, Fashion and Textiles, The Environment and Geography, Sustainability
Area(s) of expertise: Crafts; Packaging; Design (sustainable design); Clothing (sustainable clothing); Care and maintenance (history of); Plastics (in everyday life); Waste; Pollution
Dr Nick Hayes
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, History, Media, Property, Society
Area(s) of expertise: Health and hospitals; Local and regional history; Media history; Twentieth Century British urban, social and political history; War and reconstruction; Media history; Housing and the building industry; Class and status
Dr Natasha Hodgson
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): History, Literature, Religion, Sexuality, Society
Area(s) of expertise: The Crusades and the Latin East; Medieval Christianity and Islam; Women and the crusades; Chivalry and the study of masculinities; Medieval gender studies; Tournaments and medieval war games; The Norman conquest; Domesday book; Arthurian literature; Historical fiction; Medieval animal symbolism and bestiaries
Dr Nicholas Morton
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): History, Religion
Area(s) of expertise: The Crusades; The Medieval Mediterranean and Near East; The military orders (i.e. Knights Templar, Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights); The relationship between Christianity and Islam during the Middle Ages; Medieval Christianity
Dr Samantha Pegg
Nottingham Law School
Subject(s): Crime, History, Law, Media, Youth
Area(s) of expertise: Child criminality and antisocial behaviour; Child on child killing Victorian and modern; Criminal law; Offences against the person; Manslaughter; Murder; James Bulger; Press presentations of crime and criminality; Sexual offences and sexual offending
Dr Chris Reynolds
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Europe, France, History, Politics
Area(s) of expertise: France and Europe; May-68; Protest movements
Dr Judith Rowbotham
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Crime, Emergency Services, Fashion and Textiles, History, International Relations
Area(s) of expertise: Crime and criminality imagery; Gender and crime; Violence and gender; Public disorder; Police and policing society; Jack the Ripper/Victorian Whitechapel; Victorian murders; Victorian feminism, women’s dress and parlour song; Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon; British Colonial Office, C19th; British colonialism and constitutional history; British Empire and colonial constitutions; Missionaries and Empire; War crimes in the British Empire; War crimes and historical developments
Dr Carl Thompson
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): History, Literature, The Environment and Geography
Area(s) of expertise: Shipwrecks; Byron; Romantic literature; Romantic poetry; Travel writing; Women’s travellers and women’s travel writing; Wordsworth; Exploration
