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This was a paper drawing on research on the letters of Simon Taylor (1739-1813), a prominent Jamaican slaveholder, and his proslavery political outlook. It eventually evolved into material for the book White Fury: A Jamaican Planter and the Age of Re...

The dissemination of opera across diverse socio-cultural and political milieux during the early modern time is one of the most compelling and yet underexplored topics in the field of opera studies. My work explores issues of circulation, production a...

The sugar planter Simon Taylor claimed ownership over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica. At the point of his death in 1813, he was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire.This project conducted by Christer Petley ex...

Clive Gamble and Alistair Pike were awarded a grant of £163,228 from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate "Seasonality, mobility and storage in Palaeolithic hunting societies". This three year project examines one of the tipping points in deep human h...

Among opera libretti of the seventeenth century, few can lay a claim to fame comparable to Giacinto Andrea Cicognini’s Orontea. No fewer than five composers set it to music between 1649 and 1687, and among them was Antonio Cesti, one the most success...

The ABC Antibody Therapy programme is focused on improving our understanding of the underlying biological and immunological mechanisms driving the association between diet, lifestyle, and breast cancer metastasis. This understanding will better infor...

This research project investigates far-right support, particularly focusing on Spain's far-right party, VOX. Questions that the project asks:1. Who votes for the far-right in Spain?2. What explains changing electoral success of the far-right in Spain...

The research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2023-099) seeks to explore a critical economic question: whether the increased public and household debt levels in the UK contribute to wealth concentration within the top 1% and 10% of the wea...

Relying on a diverse catalogue of methodological approaches, this longitudinal cross-national research project seeks shed new light on LGBTQ+ political behaviour. It uses large-N observational survey data as well as original experimental (vignette an...