News from the Global History and Culture Centre

Amazing news! The University of Warwick has received a £1 million donation and a major gift‑in‑kind of rare travel books from philanthropist Bill Newlin. This major donation strengthens the University’s position as an international leader in the study of travel writing.

Alongside the Wheeler Travel Writing Programme, the generous Newlin donation advances Warwick’s ambition to Set the Pace in Critical Arts. The donation includes the establishment of the Bill Newlin Collection, a world‑class archive of travel guidebooks spanning centuries and continents.

The University of Warwick is setting the pace in the field of travel literature research, and at the Global History and Culture Centre, we are thrilled to support these advances.

Diversity in STEM is a set of GCSE Biology, Chemistry, and Physics resources that are designed to fit into existing lessons.

All the resources are curriculum-aligned and provide a simple, effective, and engaging way to highlight diversity in the STEM classroom.

There is an interactive website—Diversity in STEM: The Challenge—to get started: Diversity in STEM: The Challenge Interactive Website

As well as downloadable slides and lesson plans from both the website and the TES teachers’ resource portal: Diversity in STEM Slides and Lesson Plans

All resources are free to download, use and adapt. 

 They were developed by Dr James Poskett at the University of Warwick with funding from the History Department and the British Academy.

On 21-22 July, three scholars from Monash University visited the University of Warwick as part of their ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration, “Islands and Empires: Island Agency in Inter-Imperial Ordering.” The project is supported by the Monash Warwick Alliance.

The project seeks to better understand diverse manifestations of empire and their effects on island populations. Recently, scholars have dedicated attention to the relationship between islands and empire in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as the Caribbean Sea. Islands feature in accounts of strategic competition, and of how international law was hashed out among imperial interests. Several studies have pointed to the agency of island polities in these rivalries.

Congratulations to GHCC member Professor Susan Carruthers, whose book 'Making do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World' has just been published! PGR student Jeremy Goh has also been recently published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

GHCC members David Anderson and Guido van Meersbergen were recognized at Warwick's Research Celebration!