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Our Research
As the academic hub for Durham’s UNESCO World Heritage Site, we champion a framework for rigorous research, impact, and dissemination, in order to strengthen the global understanding and appreciation of one of Europe’s great Palatinates. Our research covers a comprehensive range of areas from Late Antiquity to the late eighteenth century, with a global range from the Silk Road to the Anglo-Saxon and Viking North.
Our research is organised into strands, each of which fits within one or both of our overarching themes: The History of the Book and UNESCO and World Heritage.
Research Strands
Click on a research strand below to find out more
Early Modern Keywords
The study of language in history and language as history.
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The Georgian North
Investigating the intellectual and cultural life of County Durham and surrounding areas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Historical Food
How food and food culture has evolved and influenced us.
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History of Performance
Investigating all forms of performance - theatre, ceremony, music and dance - before 1800.
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Scientific Study of Manuscripts
Bringing together the Sciences and the Humanities to explore manuscripts and their associated material culture.
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Spiritual Writings from the Low Countries
Studying the religious texts written in the Low Countries in the period 1200-1550.
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French Books and their European Readers, 1500-1700
Investigating how the content and readership of French books shaped the intellectual history of Early Modern Europe.
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