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Emmay Deville is a recent graduate of the History Department. In 2020/21 she undertook an extra-curricular research project funded by the Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS), supervised by Professor Hilary Marland.

Her project sought to inquire whether the patient's voice presented in the Royal Edinburgh Asylum's patient-run periodical "Morningside Mirror" was censored by medical staff.

To find out more about Emmay's research, please view the website she has created.

Researchers from the Department of History will be delivering a series of talks at Warwick Words History Festival.

Now in its twentieth year, Warwick Words is a popular annual event, bringing internationally acclaimed historians to share stories from the past to venues around Warwick.

Since 2012, the University of Warwick has collaborated with the festival on a series titled Tea Time Talks, where academics from the Department of History discuss their research. This year, topics are:

• History and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine – Professor Christoph Mick and Dr Claire Shaw - Saturday 8 October
• Picking up the Pieces: Gender and Romantic Failure in late 20th Century Britain – Dr Zoe Strimpel - Saturday 22 October
• The Politics of Touch in the late 18th Century – Professor Mark Philp - Saturday 26 November

The programme also includes a play written by PhD student David Fletcher and performed by Loft Theatre company: Taking the Waters tells the story of a cholera epidemic that took place in Leamington Spa in 1849, and the medical and political conflicts that surrounded it.

Other speakers at the festival include Tracy Borman, Max Hastings, Dan Jones, Adam Rutherford, Charles Spencer and Alison Weir.

Tickets are available from Warwick Words’ website: https://warwickwords.co.uk/ 

'The Last Taboo of Motherhood' project team are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a generous Research Enrichment - Public Engagement Award by the Wellcome Trust.

This will fund a new project with Fuel Theatre for the development of a series of audio pieces, which will highlight our work on maternal mental illness in the twentieth century. We have also received further funding from Warwick University’s Arts & Humanities Impact Award which will enable us to extend the reach of the project to a wider range of audiences. We will be providing further updates on this exciting project over the coming months on our project website.

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