We have a dynamic team of lecturers here at History at UoN, with research and teaching expertise from the Middle Ages to the modern day.
Click on their names to find out more information about their research, publications and current projects!
Dr Jim Beach
Jim Beach is a specialist in the History of military intelligence, and the First World War.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS1015 Blood and Iron, Europe 1815-1914
- HIS1028 United States: War and Society, 1610-2020
- HIS2014 First World War
- HIS3027 Secret State: British Intelligence, 1558-1914
- HISM047 Britain and the First World War
Dr Drew Gray
Drew Gray is a specialist in the history of crime and Jack the Ripper. Drew is Subject Leader for Humanities.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS2010 Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1700-1900
- HIS3038 Jack the Ripper’s East End: Crime and Popular Culture in the late Nineteenth-Century City
Professor Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson is a specialist in the history of fascism, political radicalism and terrorism, and the extreme right.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS1030 The Holocaust and the Politics of Race
- HIS2013 Comrades and Revolutions: A History of the Communist Movement in Europe and Asia
- HIS3040 Cultures of Fascism in Europe and America from Mussolini to the Alt-Right
Prof Matthew McCormack
Matthew McCormack is a specialist in eighteenth-century British history and militias, and as using material cultures like clothing as a source. Matthew is Head of the Northampton University Graduate School.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS1021 Themes and Perspectives in History
Dr Rachel Moss
Rachel Moss is a specialist in late medieval history, particularly of gender and the family.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS1024 The Medieval World, 1200-1500
- HIS2030 Medieval Chivalry and its Afterlives
- HIS3037 The Wars of the Roses
Dr Caroline Nielsen
Caroline Nielsen is a specialist in the health, medicine and disability history, and the role of war and poverty in Britain, 1600-1920. She also teaches employability, heritage and public history. Caroline is Programme Leader for BA History.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS1023 Health and Healers: Histories of Disease and Disability
- HIS2038: Communicating History
- HISM055 Experiencing Health
Dr Tim Reinke-Williams
Tim Reinke-Williams is a specialist in the cultural history of early modern Britain.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS1029 The Early Modern World, 1500-1800
- HIS2025 Family and Life-cycles in Early Modern England
- HIS2028 Dissertation Research Skills
Dr Mark Rothery
Mark Rothery is a specialist in modern British history and the aristocracy. Mark is Programme Leader for MA History.
Academic Year 22-23 – Module Leader for:
- HIS1021 Themes and Perspectives in History
- HIS2035 Shadows of Empire: Movements and Migrations
- HIS3028 The English Country House, c. 1660-1830