School of Humanities & Languages

In order to avoid dangerous climate change the world must drastically limit its emissions of greenhouse gases. The aim of this project will be to provide a rigorous ethical framework for dividing the world’s remaining ‘carbon budget’ (CB).

The project aims to give women an autonomous history of their own as proactive consumers altering spaces outside the domestic sphere. This approach can be applied to consumption histories in different geographical contexts. 

The legacy of an African slave, Josefa, offers exceptional potential to inform both a major historical debate about slave cultures and the legacies of slavery. 

Extending from the late 19th century to the present, this project analyses the understandings of and policies developed for homeless people in their shifting contexts. 

The project examines the pivotal role of commissions of inquiry in reforming law throughout the British Empire from 1815-1840.

The project explores how life and earth sciences contributed to global modernity over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

The project aims to show how key ethical ideas from the enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant, such as human dignity, autonomy and goodwill, have deeper roots in ancient Stoic ethics. 

In 1951 obesity was declared the top health problem in the USA, attracting more than a decade of intense research and debate on causes and remedies. 

The project addresses current public and academic debates over U.S. Exceptionalism, which casts United States’ historical development outside the normal path of history.

Focusing on the entire period of French rule in Algeria, this project looks at the impact of the former colonial power on colonised people. It questions long-held views about the empire and colonised people’s resistance to European domination. 

The project seeks to map the diverse uses of indigenous knowledge and support its future potential. This promises equity for knowledge custodians and to help prevent cultural misappropriations.