We are home to one of the most dynamic groups of historians in Britain of Society, Culture and Belief. This work is mainly within two research sub-themes:
Identities in Religious Cultures includes research in the medieval and early modern eras, covering religious conflict and devotion through individual research projects and collaborations through funded projects such as Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and Islam and the West. Staff working on this theme include Tom Asbridge, Virginia Davis, Eyal Poleg, Yossi Rapoport and Miri Rubin.
In the early modern era, Consumption, Material and Visual Culture sees the history of the book, of caricatures, and of consumption, objects and space, especially in the eighteenth century where the School has particular expertise through the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Staff working on this theme include Joanna Cohen, Mark Glancy, Colin Jones, Eyal Poleg, Miri Rubin and Amanda Vickery, Matthew Walker, Chloe Ward and Hannah Williams.