Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History

Other research projects

Centre members are currently involved in a wide variety of other research projects.

Rebellion and Myth-Making in Brazil's Interior (2017-ongoing)

A project seeking to reinterpret Brazil's Prestes Column rebellion of the 1920s

Eric Hobsbawm and the history of global Marxism (2015 - ongoing)

An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm in the context of the history of global Marxism

Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s (2018-2022)

Aiming to understand and explain how East Africa’s global connections systematically broke down after independence

The world we fought for? Systematic violence in global history since 1945 (2017-2020)

The first global history of extreme violence from the end of the Second World War to the present

Political pluralism and religious conflict (2017-2018)

A project examining political pluralism and religious conflict in the modern world

Seeing Illegal Immigrants: State Monitoring and Political Rationality (2016-2018)

A project investigating state surveillance and monitoring of irregular migrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Judging Political Violence (2013-2017)

Working towards a reinvigorated political theory that recognises the guidance of ethical principles