History

Dr Maggie Andrews

Expertise: Social and Cultural History of nineteenth and twentieth century Britain with particular interests in rural history and media history

Current student projects:
• Supermarine Spitfire: Deserved National Icon or Nostalgic Myth?
• The contribution of the women’s factory inspectorate (1893-1921) to improvements in women’s occupational health and safety

Dr Paddy McNally

Expertise: Irish History, 1690-1848; German History, 1870-1945; Political Thought; Nationalism

Current student projects:
• Constructing Cultural Memories: Print and Oral Culture in Restoration England, 1660-1702

Dr Darren Oldridge

Expertise: Religion in early modern England; witchcraft; the Devil; and representations of evil

Current student projects:
• End of Life Care in the Victorian home; a study of the West Midlands and Welsh Marches
• The decline and dissolution of the Gilbertine Order

Dr John Peters

Expertise: First World War in Britain and Europe, 19th and 20th Century British Economic and Social History

Current student projects:
• Properties, functions and value complexes: exploring critical factors in the emergence of the utility Land Rover as an 'automotive icon'

Dr Wendy Toon

Expertise: The United States in the era of the Second World War, Americanization, enemy image creation, propaganda, twentieth century Germany and Japan, foreign relations of the United States and the “study of culture at a distance.”