The Empire and Postcolonial Studies Research Group promotes research into the history and impact of empires and imperialism. Our aim is to facilitate collaboration between scholars in the History Department, and between them and the Ferguson Centre, English and Geography Departments, and other parts of the Open University. The group encourages seminars and conferences and mutual support of research students. In the first instance, we hope to support potential synergies between Empire and the OU’s development of a Heritage Studies curriculum, and between Empire and the History Department’s strengths in policing and security.
Members played a major part in writing, and subsequently play a part in maintaining, the undergraduate course A326 Empire: 1492-1975.
