David R.M Irving's research interests are music and colonialism from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; the role of music in early-modern intercultural contact; global histories of music; the revival of “early music”; and historical performance practice.
Architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially in relation to empire, industrialisation, and the welfare state. Also, the historiography of architectural history and its interdisciplinary connections
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