Research

Find out about our world-leading research in History, Philosophy, Archaeology and the Digital Humanities.

Publications March 2025

  • James Chetwood's article "Where’s Walh-y? Searching for ‘Invisible Britons’ in Early Medieval England" has been published in the Journal of the English Place-Name Society, 55, pp. 25-52. The article examines the Old English term walh (‘Briton, Welshperson, slave’) in early medieval personal names. It presents a comprehensive corpus of walh names recorded between c.500 and c.850 and explores the linguistic, historical and biographical contexts in which they appear, with the aim of shedding light on issues of migration, identity and cultural integration in early medieval England.

  • Sarah Defant - former Archaeology MSc and current PhD candidate at FU Berlin - and Lizzy Craig-Atkins have published a new open-access paper in Nature Scientific Reports. The paper presents isotopic and biomolecular evidence for a localist population in late Roman Albintimilium, Liguria, Italy. .

  • Alex Ferguson wrote an article for on the 1968 Tet Offensive.

  • Valeria Vitale has co-edited, with Katherine McDonough (Lancaster University), in the Imago Mundi journal titled "Maps and Machines: Recent Perspectives on Humanities Research Using AI and Maps". The forum gathers intersecting contributions on how our relationship with historical maps is changing rapidly due to the introduction of AI-enabled approaches. It offers perspectives on how these technologies can be applied creatively and productively in both teaching and research contexts, rather than being perceived as deterministic constraints.