History Department Events Calendar
Autumn Term 2026
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2026
Time:
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Title:
Prof. Thomas Glave (University of Binghampton), Black History Month book talk.
Location:
Room S0.09, Social Sciences Building
Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2026
Time:
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Title:
History Research seminar, Welcome to the Anthropocene: Understanding Humanity's Impact on Our Planet, Mark Maslin (UCL)
Location:
H1.49a Humanities Building
Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2026
Time:
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Title:
GHCC Welcome Reception & Book Launch: Jack Bowman (Warwick), Writing against Empire: A Book History of Pan-Africanism in Britain, c.1930-1950 (2026)
Location:
R0.03 Ramphal Building
Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2026
Time:
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Title:
EMECC Welcome Event and Book Launch, Suicide and the Supernatural in Early Modern Britain and America (Palgrave 2026) by Dr Imogen Knox
Location:
FAB5.01 Faculty of Arts Building
Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CHMST Start of Year Reception
Location:
FAB 2.32 (In-Person Only)
Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CHMST Research Seminar: Toxic Fumes: The Fight for Clean Cabin Air
Location:
FAB 2.32 (Hybrid)
Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CHMST WiP Session: ‘Sit down, Jack, I’m going off my head’: Locating the patient’s voice in asylum casebooks, c.1900
Location:
FAB 2.33 (HYBRID)
Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2026
Time:
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Title:
GHCC Book talk Taj Ali, Come What May, We’re Here to Stay: The Story of South Asian Resistance in Britain (2026)
Location:
IAS Seminar Room, Zeeman Building
Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CGJS Brutal Forms: The Legacies of Forced Labor in German Design after 1945, Patrick Greaney
Location:
FAB6.04
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2026
Time:
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Title:
History Research seminar, Do Labour Rights Deliver Workplace Justice? Workers, Power and Fairness in Postwar Central Europe, Radka Šustrová, Charles University, Prague
Location:
FAB5.01 Faculty of Arts Building
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2026
Time:
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Title:
EMECC Seminar and New Colleague Introduction
Location:
FAB5.01 Faculty of Arts Building
Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CHMST Book Launch: Gems and the New Science, by Michael Bycroft
Location:
FAB0.23 (Hybrid)
Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2026
Time:
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Title:
GHCC seminar, How to Write a Global History of Tax Avoidance?
Location:
OC1.07 Oculus Building
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CHMST UKRI Grant Roundup
Location:
FAB2.32 (In-Person Only)
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2026
Time:
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Title:
Daniel Rood: "The De-Judaization of Caribbean Trade and the Making of a British Imperial Nation in the 17th Century"
Location:
OC1.08, Oculus Building
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2026
Time:
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Title:
History Research seminar, In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America, Daniel Rood, University of Georgia
Location:
H1.48 Humanities Building
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2026
Time:
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Title:
GHCC-EMECC joint seminar, Unchartered Maritime Worlds
Location:
Wolfson Exchange 1&2, Library
Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CHMST WiP Session: Bodies, Work, and Leisure: Soviet Sanatoria and the Making of Medical-Administrative Discourse, 1917–1941
Location:
Social Sciences S1.39 (Hybrid)
Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2026
Time:
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Title:
GHCC-LAWN joint seminar, “An Indigenous P’urhepecha History of Environmental Knowledge in Western Mexico”
Location:
FAB5.01 Faculty of Arts Building
Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2026
Time:
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Title:
GHCC Manuscript workshop Tom Long (Warwick), Republican Internationalism: Latin America and the Making of the Modern International Order, 1861-1919 (Harvard University Press)
Location:
E2.02 Social Sciences Building
Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2026
Time:
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Title:
History Research seminar, Ocean Bombay: Space, Itinerancy and Community in a Colonial Port City, 1839-1945, Tania Bhattacharyya (Warwick)
Location:
H1.48 Humanities Building
Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2026
Time:
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Title:
EMECC Workshop and Book Launch
Location:
FAB2.43 Faculty of Arts Building
Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2026
Time:
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Title:
CHMST PG-led Speakers Series: Eccentric Lives and Neurodivergent Histories in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century England
Location:
FAB5.01 (Hybrid)
Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2026
Time:
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Title:
Global History reading group: Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History (2025)
Location:
FAB0.23 Faculty of Arts Building