Our research

The research interests of our academic members of staff

Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean; Politics and International Relations; Modern and Contemporary Maltese History.
Venice; the Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem; the Mediterranean and Malta in Early Modern Times.
 
Comparative Social and Economic History 1800-1930s; Poor Relief, Public Health and Hospitalisation; Colonial Medicine and Quarantine Studies;Colonial/Postcolonial Labour and Migration; Public Memory and Oral History; and Mediterranean Historiography. 
 
Maltese and Central Mediterranean social/political/economic History 1000-1500. 
 
The Order of St John (the Hospitallers); Early Modern (c.1450-c.1789) History of Malta and Europe; Early Modern Global History; History of Religion; Gender History; History of Slavery; Public Rituals and Festivities.
 
Early Modern and Modern Social, Demographic and Family Histories.
 
Medieval Mediterranean: 1000-1500: Political, Social, Economic History, Sicily, Southern Italy, Malta; Jewish-Christian Relations; Crusading in the Fifteenth Century.
 
Late Modern and Contemporary Political European History; Modern and Contemporary Global History; 19th and 20th Century Maltese politico-eocnomic, socio-cultural History; Feminism and History.
 

Dr Joan Abela

Maltese and Central Mediterranean economic, social and legal aspects. (c.1450-1800):  Hospitaller Malta and the Mediterranean,  Women's History, History of slavery and ransom processes in the Mediterranean, Legal Archives as primary sources.

 

 

 


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