Global History and Culture Centre Blog

Dr. Camillia Cowling writes on the workshop "Paths of Enslavement, Routes to Freedom: Slavery and Mobility in the Iberian Atlantic World" sponsored by the Global History and Culture Centre and the Humanities Research Fund.

Held on the 19th and 20th April 2024, the annual British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Postgraduate Conference took place in the Zeeman Building.

An exciting new project celebrating the 700th anniversary of the death of one of the world’s great explorers. Alongisde 36 partners, we will be launching a diverse program focusing on travel, material culture, and cross-cultural exchange.

Anaïs Walsdorf reviews the new ‘Collectible Minerals’ temporary exhibition at the Mineralogy Museum of Mines Paris – PSL.

Jeremy Goh recounts his first experience in researching Chinese businesses based in colonial Singapore, later developed into an article published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

Guillemette Crouzet and Eva Miller report on the conference 'Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939'.

Liz Egan, Jim Hulbert, and Catriona Sharples report on the workshop ‘New Frontiers in Imperial Networks’, focused particularly on the place of “networks” in our study of imperialism and colonialism

Rose Miyonga reports on the the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS). The event, which brought together over 2,000 scholars from eighty countries, under the theme of ‘African Futures'. What emerged from this was a plurality of ways to conceptualise the future – of Africa and more generally – that led to an extremely rich conference programme, which stretched across time frames and spatial dimensions. Several Global History and Culture Centre students, staff and affiliates contributed to ECAS 2023.