Katey Logan, a second year PhD student who is jointly supervisd by CHM and Warwick Business School staff, and whose research focusses on the Boots company archives, has had a chapter published in The International Business Archives Handbook (Routledge). The Handbook provides up-to-date information and guidance on key issues relating to the understanding and management of the historical records of businesses, as a resource for students, archive professionals and business historians. Katey's contribution is an introductiory chapter putting business archives in context.

https://www.routledge.com/The-International-Business-Archives-Handbook-Understanding-and-managing/Turton/p/book/9780754646631

Long-standing CHM member Professor Robert Freedman (School of Life Sciences) has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to support his study of the varied life and work of Ida Smedley MacLean (1877-1944). His research will examine her scientific work at the Lister institute, her role in establishing and promoting campaigning women's organizations (the British Federation of University Women and the International Federation of University Women), her pioneering work in breaking into male-dominated scientific bodies (she was the first woman Council Member of the Chemical Society and first woman Chair of the Biochemical Society) and how she managed to balance this busy schedule with an active family and cultural life. The project builds on earlier work carried out in collaboration with CHM on Women Biochemists, 1906-1939

Sophie Greenway, 3rd year (part-time) PhD student in CHM, has just won the Postgraduate Paper Prize for the Social History Society's recent conference in London. The paper was called 'Producer or consumer? The house, the garden and the sourcing of vegetables in Britain, 1930-1970'. Sophie's PhD research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is 'Growing well: Dirt, health and the home gardener in Britain, 1930-1970'. Details of the conference are available here: https://socialhistory.org.uk/conference-2017, and the full prize-winning paper is here: https://www.socialhistory.org.uk/post.php?s=2017-05-11-shs-2017-postgraduate-prize-winners