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History is home to a number of research projects funded by organisations such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Wellcome Trust.
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Forms of Labour: Gender, Freedom and Experience of Work in the Preindustrial Economy
The FORMSofLABOUR project is funded by the European Research Council, and runs from September 2019 until August 2024. It uses archival records to construct a new history of work that includes women and children as well as adult men. The project has three strands, examining the experience of work via a database of work tasks; rethinking the major debates surround women’s work; and collecting new evidence about the freedom of wage labourers in the preindustrial economy.
The findings will be published in two books and a series articles in academic journals which will be available ‘open access’ or free of charge.
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For research projects not listed here, please visit the research centres pages
| Title | PI | Awarding body | Year awarded | Amount (£) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Popular Healing: Christian and Islamic Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Malta | Catherine Rider and Dionisius Agius | British Academy | 2019/22 | 7,924 |
| South Africas Hidden War: Histories of Sexual Violence from Apartheid to the Present | Emily Bridger | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 547,629 |
| Genres of Political Writing in Britain since 1900 | Richard Toye | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 31,821 |
| Education, Justice and Memory Network | Catriona Pennell | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 74,544 |
| Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the Middle East | Catriona Pennell | Leverhulme Trust | 2019/20 | 158,205 |
| A landscape transformed: the reclamation of Exmoor Forest | Henry French | Leverhulme Trust | 2019/20 | 106,650 |
| Social-Cultural Approaches to Microbial Life in an Era of Antimicrobial Resistance | Mark Jackson | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2018/19 | 94,998 |
| Cornwalls Maritime Churches Project | Garry Tregidga | Heritage Lottery Fund | 2018/19 | 39,976 |
| Globalising Decolonisation | Martin Thomas | Leverhulme Trust | 2018/19 | 148,824 |
| Forms of Labour: Gender, Freedom and Experience of Work in the Preindustrial Economy | Jane Whittle | European Commission | 2019/24 | €1,666,565.00 |
| Living with Machines | Jonathan Lawrence | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2018/19 | 217,525 |
| Care for the Future V2 | Andrew Thompson | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 787,493 |
| Forging Memory: Falsified Documents And Institutional History in Europe c 970-1020 | Levi Roach | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 171,936 |
| Ancient Histories in the Early Modern World | Freyja Cox Jensen | Harvard University | 2017/18 | 12,118 |
| (R) Marsha Wubbels Studentship - A Healthy Interest: diets, exercise and ideal bodies in England and Holland, 1650-1800 | Sarah Toulalan | Wellcome Trust | 2017/18 | 99,441 |
| AHRC - Voyaging Through History: The Meanings of the Mayflower (1620 - 2020) | Martha Vandrei | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 38,987 |
| The Duchesse dElbeufs Letters to a Friend 1788-1794 | Alexander Fairfax-Cholmeley | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 45,000 |
| HERA After Empire | Sarah Hamilton | Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) | 2016/17 | 106,869 |
| AveTransRisk - Average-Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) | Maria Fusaro | ERC - Consolidator Grants scheme (n.724544) | 2017/22 | €1,854,256.00 |
| Wellcome Trust Centre | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2016/17 | 4,094,682 |
| Demography Vs. Democracy: Population Control during the Emergency in India | Rebecca Williams | Academy of Medical Sciences | 2016/17 | 44,835 |
| Teaching And Learning War Research Network | Catriona Pennell | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2016/17 | 37,248 |
| Reflections On Centenary Of WW1 | Catriona Pennell | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2016/17 | 39,147 |
| Lawforms | Nandini Chatterjee | European Commission | 2016/17 | 857,309 |
| The Age Of Promises | Richard Toye, David Thackeray | Leverhulme Trust | 2016/17 | 151,179 |
| Afterlives of Empire: Thinking Forward Through an Imperial Past | Andrew Thompson | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2012/16 | 842,171 |
| Understanding Insurgencies | Martin Thomas, Gareth Curless | Leverhulme Trust | 2015/16 | 116,833 |
| ESRC Kristofer Allerfeldt | Kristofer Allerfeldt | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2015/16 | 52,827 |
| Cultivating Relaxation In Britain | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 148,407 |
| Socialism Goes Global | James Mark | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2014/15 | 437,414 |
| ISSF2 Wellcome Trust | Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 787,489 |
| Womens Work In Rural England | Jane Whittle | Leverhulme Trust | 2014/15 | 231,307 |
| French Music 1350-1415 | Yolanda Plumley | Leverhulme Trust | 2014/15 | 139,469 |
| Santorio Santorio Medicine Procedures | Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 127,884 |
| Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: heritage in times of accelerated climate change | Bryony Onciul | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2014/15 | 4,491 |
| Do Beards Matter | Alun Withey, Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 163,785 |
| Remembering The Mental Hospital | Jonathan Barry | Heritage Lottery Fund | 2014/15 | 40,900 |
| Lifestyle, health and disease: changing concepts of balance in modern medicine | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 100,000 |
| Landmark Travels | Garry Tregidga | Heritage Lottery Fund | 2014/15 | 29,600 |
| The Cross Disciplinary invention of Sexuality: Sexual Science Beyond the Medical, 1890-1940 (Fisher) | Kate Fisher | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 420,315 |
| Backing Britain?: Imagining a nation's global economic future since 1900 | David Thackeray | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 117,813 |
| Magic In Malta 1605 | Catherine Rider | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 187,065 |
| Child soldiers in Africa: Historicizing the contemporary Crisis, c.1890-1980 | Stacey Hynd | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2013/14 | 11,390 |
| Victims And The French Revolution Terror | Alexander Fairfax-Cholmeley | British Academy | 2013/14 | 210,562 |
| Energetic: Stories of Change | Nicola Whyte | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 36,889 |
For research projects not listed here, please visit the research centres pages
| Title | PI | Awarding body | Year awarded | Amount (£) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Popular Healing: Christian and Islamic Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Malta | Catherine Rider and Dionisius Agius | British Academy | 2019/22 | 7,924 |
| The impact of cancer diagnosis on close relationships | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2019/20 | 15,608 |
| South Africas Hidden War: Histories of Sexual Violence from Apartheid to the Present | Emily Bridger | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 547,629 |
| Recovering Past Soundscapes: The Cachet of French Song in the Low Countries, ca. 1400 | Yolanda Plumley | Netherlands Instit for Advanced Studies | 2019/20 | 13,500 |
| Global Decolonisation and Rethinking European History Since 1945 | James Mark | Netherlands Instit for Advanced Studies | 2019/20 | 13,500 |
| The Flights That Bind: Pan Ams Hawaii route | Henry Knight Lozano | To Be Advised | 2019/20 | 1,215 |
| Genres of Political Writing in Britain since 1900 | Richard Toye | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 31,821 |
| The Crusading Diaspora: French Baronial Government in the Mediterranean, 1204-12 | Gregory Lippiatt | Leverhulme Trust | 2019/20 | 24,295 |
| Care for the Future V2 | Andrew Thompson | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 54,488 |
| Living with Machines | Jonathan Lawrence | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 31,298 |
| Education, Justice and Memory Network | Catriona Pennell | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2019/20 | 74,544 |
| Culture, Creativity and Health & Well-being Cluster | Bryony Onciul | The University of British Columbia | 2019/20 | 6,605 |
| Arts Council National Lottery Designation Development Fund RAMM | Silvia Espelt Bombin | Arts Council England | 2019/20 | 1,500 |
| Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the Middle East | Catriona Pennell | Leverhulme Trust | 2019/20 | 158,205 |
| A landscape transformed: the reclamation of Exmoor Forest | Henry French | Leverhulme Trust | 2019/20 | 106,650 |
| Ugandan Heritage and Youth Exchange | Catriona Pennell | British Academy | 2019/20 | 19,854 |
| BA SRG: Exporting Arson: Incendiarism as Protest in the Global Irish Diaspora | Gemma Clark | British Academy | 2019/20 | 8,100 |
| MiMus | Yolanda Plumley | European Commission | 2018/19 | 28,846 |
| Social-Cultural Approaches to Microbial Life in an Era of Antimicrobial Resistance | Mark Jackson | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2018/19 | 94,998 |
| Communities of Mourning | Laura Rowe | British Academy | 2018/19 | 8,224 |
| Cornwalls Maritime Churches Project | Garry Tregidga | Heritage Lottery Fund | 2018/19 | 39,976 |
| After The Storm: a Mosaic of reflections on rebuilding mental health | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2018/19 | 3,400 |
| Devon Sustainable Food Networks | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2018/19 | 12,749 |
| Generating Evidence of Wellbeing Outcomes from Community Engagement and Social | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2018/19 | 6,350 |
| Globalising Decolonisation | Martin Thomas | Leverhulme Trust | 2018/19 | 148,824 |
| Popular Healing: Christian and Muslim Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Malta | Catherine Rider | British Academy | 2018/19 | 7,924 |
| News in the Middle Ages | Helen Birkett | British Academy | 2018/19 | 8,755 |
| Turning Guests Into Hosts | Matthew Rendle | British Academy | 2018/19 | 2,205 |
| Forms of Labour: Gender, Freedom and Experience of Work in the Preindustrial Economy | Jane Whittle | European Commission | 2019/24 | €1,666,565.00 |
| BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant: Ancient Histories project | Freyja Cox Jensen | British Academy | 2018/19 | 9,435 |
| Living with Machines | Jonathan Lawrence | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2018/19 | 217,525 |
| In The Spirit Of The Laws | Matthew Rendle | British Academy | 2017/18 | 238,178 |
| Miss You Already | Bryony Onciul | Louise Ann Wilson Company Limited | 2017/18 | 1,000 |
| Open Access supplementary award for Professor Kate Fisher | Kate Fisher | Wellcome Trust | 2017/18 | 1,600 |
| Turning Guests Into Hosts | Matthew Rendle | British Academy | 2017/18 | 239,769 |
| Care for the Future V2 | Andrew Thompson | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 787,493 |
| Science Museum Secondment Fellowship | Ayesha Nathoo | Wellcome Trust | 2017/18 | 25,919 |
| Forging Memory: Falsified Documents And Institutional History in Europe c 970-1020 | Levi Roach | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 171,936 |
| Ancient Histories in the Early Modern World | Freyja Cox Jensen | Harvard University | 2017/18 | 12,118 |
| Postgrad Med Hums Conf 2016 | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2017/18 | 3,100 |
| TRAUMA PATHWAYS | Mark Jackson | Medical Research Council (MRC) | 2017/18 | 24,675 |
| (R) Marsha Wubbels Studentship - A Healthy Interest: diets, exercise and ideal bodies in England and Holland, 1650-1800 | Sarah Toulalan | Wellcome Trust | 2017/18 | 99,441 |
| Disaster in the East in 1187 | Helen Birkett | British Academy | 2017/18 | 1,200 |
| AHRC - Voyaging Through History: The Meanings of the Mayflower (1620 - 2020) | Martha Vandrei | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 38,987 |
| Decolonising madness? Transcultural psyc | Ana Antic | Wellcome Trust | 2017/18 | 28,155 |
| Additional Award: The Re-Invention of Sexuality? Sexual Science Beyond the Medical 1890-1940 | Kate Fisher | Wellcome Trust | 2017/18 | 1,600 |
| The Duchesse dElbeufs Letters to a Friend 1788-1794 | Alexander Fairfax-Cholmeley | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2017/18 | 45,000 |
| Drinking Studies Network: Changing Drink | Mark Hailwood | Alcohol Research UK | 2016/17 | 988 |
| Do Nightlights Emissions Enlighten (GCRF) | Stacey Hynd | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2016/17 | 62,670 |
| HERA After Empire | Sarah Hamilton | Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) | 2016/17 | 106,869 |
| Socialist Medicine | Dora Vargha | Wellcome Trust | 2016/17 | 47,082 |
| AveTransRisk - Average-Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) | Maria Fusaro | ERC - Consolidator Grants scheme (n.724544) | 2017/22 | €1,854,256.00 |
| Wellcome Trust Centre | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2016/17 | 4,094,682 |
| Engaging With The Early Modern | Freyja Cox Jensen | British Academy | 2016/17 | 14,775 |
| Children And Politics | Ana Antic | British Academy | 2016/17 | 13,535 |
| Trading Partners | David Thackeray | British Academy | 2016/17 | 9,563 |
| Wealth, Work And Credit In The Eighteent | Katherin Paul | Economic History Society | 2016/17 | 4,880 |
| Enduring Connections: Heritage In Times | Bryony Onciul | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2016/17 | 13,294 |
| AHRC Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement Scheme: Connected Communities Highlight Notice | Bryony Onciul | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2016/17 | 23,816 |
| Demography Vs. Democracy: Population Control during the Emergency in India | Rebecca Williams | Academy of Medical Sciences | 2016/17 | 44,835 |
| Teaching And Learning War Research Network | Catriona Pennell | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2016/17 | 37,248 |
| Reflections On Centenary Of Wwi | Catriona Pennell | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2016/17 | 39,147 |
| Lawforms | Nandini Chatterjee | European Commission | 2016/17 | 857,309 |
| Care Under Pressure | Mark Jackson | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) | 2016/17 | 172,626 |
| The Age Of Promises | Richard Toye, David Thackeray | Leverhulme Trust | 2016/17 | 151,179 |
| Super Resolution Microscopy | Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2015/16 | 10,000 |
| The Grand Tour Of Mercantilism | Maria Fusaro | British Academy | 2015/16 | 9,910 |
| Afterlives of Empire: Thinking Forward Through an Imperial Past | Andrew Thompson | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2012/16 | 842,171 |
| Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2015 | Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2015/16 | 1,600 |
| Understanding Insurgencies | Martin Thomas, Gareth Curless | Leverhulme Trust | 2015/16 | 116,833 |
| Rowntree Business Lectures | Alan Booth | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2015/16 | 337,604 |
| Criminalization of Dictatorial Pasts in Europe and Latin America in Global Perspective | James Mark | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2015/16 | 75,779 |
| Farming, Fishing and Food Supply in Devon during the First World War | Henry French | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2015/16 | 15,602 |
| Astrology Is Higher Than Medicine | Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2015/16 | 90,003 |
| ESRC Kristofer Allerfeldt | Kristofer Allerfeldt | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2015/16 | 52,827 |
| Imperialist Humanitarianism | Martin Thomas | Independant Social Research Foundation (ISRF) | 2014/15 | 46,935 |
| Cultivating Relaxation In Britain | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 148,407 |
| Socialism Goes Global | James Mark | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2014/15 | 437,414 |
| Apologies for Historical Wrongs: When, Why, How? | Bryony Onciul | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2014/15 | 5,788 |
| Birth, Marriage and Sex in Eighteenth Century Wales | Sarah Toulalan | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 84,588 |
| ISSF2 Wellcome Trust | Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 787,489 |
| Everyday Lives in War | Henry French | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2014/15 | 27,286 |
| Womens Work In Rural England | Jane Whittle | Leverhulme Trust | 2014/15 | 231,307 |
| French Music 1350-1415 | Yolanda Plumley | Leverhulme Trust | 2014/15 | 139,469 |
| Santorio Santorio Medicine Procedures | Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 127,884 |
| Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: heritage in times of accelerated climate change | Bryony Onciul | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2014/15 | 4,491 |
| Do Beards Matter | Alun Withey, Jonathan Barry | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 163,785 |
| Exewhirr Public Engagement Event Proposal | Sarah Toulalan | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 4,636 |
| Remembering The Mental Hospital | Jonathan Barry | Heritage Lottery Fund | 2014/15 | 40,900 |
| Lifestyle, health and disease: changing concepts of balance in modern medicine | Mark Jackson | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 100,000 |
| Health and Masculinity in Britain 1945-2000 | Alison Haggett | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 13,200 |
| Landmark Travels | Garry Tregidga | Heritage Lottery Fund | 2014/15 | 29,600 |
| The Cross Disciplinary invention of Sexuality: Sexual Science Beyond the Medical, 1890-1940 (Fisher) | Kate Fisher | Wellcome Trust | 2014/15 | 420,315 |
| Backing Britain?: Imagining a nation's global economic future since 1900 | David Thackeray | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 117,813 |
| Law and Society in Mughal India | Nandini Chatterjee | British Academy | 2013/14 | 9,725 |
| Subjects of law: rightful selves and the legal process in imperial Britain and the British empire | Nandini Chatterjee | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 5,454 |
| Birth Marriage and Sex in Early Modern Wales | Sarah Toulalan | Wellcome Trust | 2013/14 | 84,588 |
| An Investigation into Surgery and Surgically Altered Bodies in Early Modern England (ISSF seed corn) | Sarah Toulalan | Wellcome Trust | 2013/14 | 18,130 |
| Magic In Malta 1605 | Catherine Rider | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 187,065 |
| Scoping Study on Conflict | Andrew Thompson | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2013/14 | 9,898 |
| Imagining Markets: Empire, Europe, China in Britain's Economic Future Since the 1870's | Richard Toye, David Thackeray | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 27,654 |
| Child soldiers in Africa: Historicizing the contemporary Crisis, c.1890-1980 | Stacey Hynd | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2013/14 | 11,390 |
| Victims And The French Revolution Terror | Alexander Fairfax-Cholmeley | British Academy | 2013/14 | 210,562 |
| Energetic: Stories of Change | Nicola Whyte | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | 2013/14 | 36,889 |
| Brexit and the Regions: The Case of Cornwall | Garry Tregidga | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2013/14 | 10,154 |