The department hosts a number of research centres
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- Centre for Cold War Studies
- Research focused on Modern Military History, International Politics, the Cultural History of the Cold War, and Secret Service Activities

- Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies
- Research in the relations and developments of the modern Middle East, defined as the area bounded by Morocco in the west, Iran in the east, Turkey in the north and Sudan in the south

- Centre for Medieval Studies
- Current focus areas range from British medieval studies to theatre history, folk literature and culture, history of the crusades, monastic history, Latin, Byzantine, and Gothic studies to physical anthropology and DNA studies