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Research Projects

Learn about some of the key research projects our academics are working on within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

Our work

Addressing the Invisible

This project was undertaken by Dr Chloe Duckworth, who was awarded a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship. In the project, Dr Duckworth uses experimental archaeology to reconstruct glass recycling in the 1st millennium AD Mediterranean.

Anti-Catholicism in British History: c.1520-1900

This network brings together scholars from a range of disciplines (History, Art History, Literature, Social Psychology) who work on a diverse range of historical periods (the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries) to consider anti-Catholicism as a major aspect of modern British History.

Behind the Weltbühne: A Critical Biography of Hermann Budzislawski

This book project is devoted to Hermann Budzislawski (1901-1978), one of the most influential German journalists of the 20th century who lived and worked in several countries under very different political regimes.

Decision Making in Pregnancy after 1970

This pilot study will construct an application for a large-scale historical analysis of the sociocultural context of prenatal screening and diagnostic technologies, and their impact upon women and their partners.

James Harrington: Beyond the Republican Paradigm

This project offers a new interpretation of the influential seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington.

Living Legacies, 1914-18 Engagement Centre

The Living Legacies 1914-18 Engagement Centre is a focal point for connecting academic and community researchers interested in how the First World War lives on in the 21st century world.

Not As It Is Written exhibition about Black Pittsburgh

The exhibition features the African American experience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, as a case-study of one city grappling with the issues that Dr Martin Luther King fought against.

The Piercebridge Project: Roman Pottery from the River Tees

The Piercebridge Project is a collaborative project to catalogue and publish a large collection of Roman artefacts from the River Tees at Piercebridge.

RESTOMO: Reintroducing Stone & Mortar

In the Early Middle Ages stone architecture was reintroduced to many parts of Europe by secular and ecclesiastical authorities. This projects looks at how and why this radical change took place.

The Roman Temples Project Maryport

The Roman Temples Project, Maryport is a five-year long field project sponsored by the Senhouse Museum Trust and supported by Newcastle University at Maryport on the Cumbrian Coast.

Sacred landscape in late Byzantium

A video presents highlights from the international workshop on “Holiness on the Move: Travelling Saints in Byzantium” organised by Dr Mihail Mitrea at Newcastle University on February 22, 2019.

Small Landholdings: Landownership and Registration

This project was commissioned by the Scottish Government, and addressed one of the most politically contentious areas of Scottish policy: land reform.

Tintagel: Trans-European connections across the post-Roman world

This three-year project will provide a detailed assessment and analysis of the internationally significant post-Roman imported ceramic assemblage from Tintagel, Cornwall.

KNIROH

The Knaresborough and Irchester Roman Hoards Project (KNIROH) is a re-evaluation of two of the greatest late Roman copper-alloy vessels hoards found in Britain