Global History and Culture Centre

About Us

With expertise in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, the interests of the Global History and Culture Centre's members span the globe, and it is the connections between these different regions that are the main focus of the Centre's activities.

Established in 2007, the Centre forms an important part of the Department of History and the wider University. The Centre is at the fore of the development of global history as an integral part of the field of history.

Research Focus

The Centre also hosts many other research projects and fellowships supported by a variety of funding bodies. We engage in teaching, graduate research, academic publications, host visiting academic fellows, participate in research networks, and organise symposia, conferences, and seminar series, such as a conference on micro- and global history. An AHRC-funded network on Global Microhistory continues this work. Berg's ERC-funded project Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830 was part of the Centre.

Forthcoming Events

Wed 02 Oct '19

4pm - 6pm: Opening lecture on China's Muslim Internment Camps: New Evidence and Historical Preconditions

Thu 10 Oct '19

4pm - 6pm: GHCC-EMECC joint seminar on Philanthropy and Empire at the London Foundling Hospital: Research and Reflections on Public History

Fri 11 Oct '19

workshop: Black Children in Eighteenth-Century London: Archives and Collections

CFP - RHS Symposium 'World Making and the City'