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. The AHRC-funded network on Global Microhistory has resulted in the publication of a Past and Present supplement. Berg's ERC-funded project Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830 was part of the Centre.

Forthcoming Events

Wed 22 Apr '20

4pm - 6pm: GHCC-EMECC joint seminar - POSTPONED

Wed 29 Apr '20

1pm - 2pm: GHCC Reading Group - Unruly Waters: How Mountains Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia’s History - CANCELLED

Wed 06 May '20

4pm - 6pm: Global History seminar on Chinese Intellectuals and the New Global Order: Contesting Radical Pasts after 1989 - POSTPONED

13-15 May 2020: RHS Symposium-GHCC Annual Conference 'World Making and the City'