Current Research
Sister project to Barricades
Re-imagining Democracy is a 4-part collaborative research project exploring how older understandings of democracy were re-imagined and reworked intellectually, practically and institutionally in the movements for and against reform across Europe and the Americas (1750 -1870). The final part on Central and Northern Europe will run from 2022-2026.
Messages to Posterity
For many centuries right up to the present, communities in and around Austria, Germany and Switzerland have placed documents, images and objects intended for successive generations into spheres located at the top of prominent buildings. With support from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Beat Kümin now investigates tower capsule deposits in comparative perspective.
Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
Dr. Charles Walton and other members of EHRC and EMECC
This project is tethered to the GIS Sociability Network based in France, with which EMECC and EHRC have been collaborating since 2016. Warwick was part of the GIS’s Horizons 2020 Grant to create DIGITENS, an online Encyclopedia on Sociability in the long eighteenth century. The network includes more than a dozen affiliates (universities and other public institutions) throughout Europe and North America. Although initially focussed on Britain, the network has branched out to include European and Atlantic worlds. Numerous conferences, publications and secondments have taken place within the scope of this project.
The Memory Group
The Memory Group is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty with research interests in memory, memorialisation, and related issues of trauma and nostalgia.
From Duty to Rights Network
Sister project ofSocioeconomic Rights in History
This network has grown out of the Socioeconomic Rights in History project. The aim of this collaboration is to foreground the importance of ‘duties’ in the evolution of discourses about human (or ‘natural’ rights). The project focusses largely on Europe between the medieval period and the present, but it opens onto the ‘global’ in treating the modern period.
War Remembrance in Europe
‘The Army of the Unknown Soldiers: War remembrance in inter-war Europe’. This project is dedicated to the transnational history of war remembrance in Europe.
Urban reconstruction, 1914-1939
Rebuilding European Lives. The reconstitution of urban communities in inter-war Europe (1914-1939).
Socio-Economic Rights in History Network
Dr. Charles Walton and Dr. Claudia Stein
This Leverhulme-funded network explored the understudied history of social rights. Often mistakenly viewed as recent additions to the corpus of civil and political rights bequeathed by the 18thcentury Enlightenment, social rights stretch back much further, to the medieval and early modern era. The network has been ‘global’ in scope and has been also supported by EMECC and GHCC. It has produced several publications so far, opening up a new subgenre of historical literature on human rights.