Global History and Culture Centre Blog

Using the writing of imperial agents in the Middle East, PGR student Mark Glubb shows how some of his sources were published

This inaugural post is the first in a series highlighting the work we have accomplished as a team in the JSPS-Warwick collaboration. Problematizing categories and terms, this fruitful project has furthered our Centre's global engagement!

Alongside the Wheeler Travel Writing Programme, this new £1 million donation and rare collection will strengthen global history of travel writing research at Warwick and the GHCC

Lewis Twiby explores identity politics in the Mexican border, through the lens of Canadian mennonites.

How can global history help us understand the wider implications of pandemics? PGR member Gabriele Rizzi Bastiani explores this question by comparing the history of the Roman Empire to contemporary happenings.

Congratulations to Dr. Anca Cretu, whose edited volume Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe has just been published by Manchester University Press!

How did early modern travellers construct 'the Other'? UG student Rania Sivaraj explores Ludovico di Varthema's writing and his creation of the 'Devil in Calicut'.

'Making do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World', by Susan Carruthers, has just been published, plus a new publication by Jeremy Goh.