Media, Memory and History is a fast-growing area of expertise at Loughborough which provides a shared focus of research for scholars across the social sciences and humanities. Our researchers work on various aspects of media and communication history, mediated memory, and the relationship between media and time.

For further information on media, memory and history research contact Professor Sabina Mihelj (S.Mihelj@lboro.ac.uk).

Our areas of expertise include:

• Different aspects of media and cultural history from early modern to contemporary periods – book culture, television, advertising, media and war, popular culture and media, media events, digital media, transnational information networks, audience history;
• Individual and collective memory, psychological and sociological dynamics of remembering; cultural practices of representing, communication and transmission of memory; transnational remembering and migrant memories; memory, heritage and tourism; post-socialist memory and nostalgia; Holocaust memory and media;
• The role of communication technologies in shaping perceptions of time; modern media and the temporal organisation of social practices and routines; media rituals;
• Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of media and change over time; longitudinal analysis of media content; media events as critical junctures.

Recent and forthcoming events:

• International Workshop on Media, Memory and History, September 2016 (co-organised by T. Klein, E. Keightley and S. Mihelj)
• International Symposium on Media & Time, June 2017 (co-organised by E. Keightley, S. Mihelj and P. Yeandle)
• Project launch The Missing: Memory, Migration and Partition, February 2018 (co-organised by E. Keightley)
• Symposium Images of Welfare: Press and Public Attitudes to Poverty 35 years on, March 2018 (co-organised by D. Wring and M. Monaghan)
• Networking Workshop on New Media as Heritage, June 2018 (organised by S. Natale)
• AHRC Workshop on Protest Memories, September 2018 (co-organised by E. Keightley)
• Sandpit and scoping workshop on Modern Slavery, October 2018 (organised by C. Armstrong)
• Conference White Slavery in Transnational and International Context, 1880-1950 (co-organised by C. Armstrong)

Recent and ongoing funded projects:

• Tourism as Memory-Making: Heritage and memory Wars in Post-Soviet Cities (ESRC, 2019-2020, PI Alena Pfoser)
• Migrant Memory and the Post-Colonial Imagination: British Asian Memory, Identity and Community after Partition (Leverhulme Trust, 2017-2022, PI Emily Keightley)
• Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914 (Transatlantic Partnership for Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017-2019, Co-I Melodee Beals)
• Making Memory Makers: Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain Since 2002 (Leverhulme Trust, 2017-2018, PI John Richardson)
• Screening Socialism: Popular Television and Everyday Life in Socialist Eastern Europe (Leverhulme Trust, 2013-2016, PI Sabina Mihelj)

Research in cognate areas is also conducted in the School of Arts, English and Drama. For more information see here.