University of Edinburgh hosts one of the largest economic and social history research groupings in the UK. Staff research interests are wide-ranging, including the study of:

economic development
energy policy
financial history
globalisation
urban history
consumption
material culture
museums and collecting
leisure
religious belief
popular culture
medicine and disease
gender
sexuality
the family
The diversity of the research means they can support students’ economic and social history study in a vast range of time periods and geographical regions and from the early modern period to the present day.

Particular areas of expertise available for research are:

culture and society in early modern Britain
the material culture of gender in 18th-century Britain
urban society and civil society in historical context
clothing cultures in comparative historical contexts
cinema and society in modern Britain
gender, crime and deviancy: Britain 1860–1960