This cluster represents the full scope of historical study across the span of historical periods but is not confined to history departments alone. The history of science can be found in philosophy at Leeds, for instance, and there are distinguished historical schools in classics, film studies, modern languages and international politics.
Chair: Colin Reid, Department of History, University of Sheffield
| Member | University | Research interests |
| Stephen Alford | Leeds | Late Tudor and Elizabethan politics |
| Rob Hornsby | Leeds | Russian History; Post-war Soviet Union; Communist Eastern Europe; Post-war Europe |
| Kivilcim Yavuz | Leeds | Medieval Historiography; Medieval Origin Stories; Trojan Narrative; Classical Reception; Comparative Literature and History; Digital Humanities |
| Phil Withington | Sheffield | Citizenship, popular politics, intoxicants, urban culture and urbanization, historical linguistics, renaissance humanism, social and cultural history |
| Charles West | Sheffield | European history c700-1150; formation, development and transformation of cultural and political structures; Digital History and public engagement |
| Miriam Dobson | Sheffield | History of the Soviet Union; the social and cultural history of post-war Russia and Ukraine; Baptist and Pentecostal communities in the Soviet Union |
| John Cooper | York | Political, religious and cultural history of sixteenth-century England; the history of early colonial America and Ireland. |
| Catriona Kennedy | York | Modern British and Irish history with particular interests in the cultural history of war, politics, gender and national identity |
| Gerard McCann | York | Intersections of decolonization, global Cold War, African cultural production, Afro-Asian networks, African statehood, (de)globalization and ideas about ‘development’ since the 1950s |