From December 2022 to November 2023, Dr Sandra Araújo (Universidade de Lisboa) will join the Global History and Culture Centre as a Visiting Research Fellow after having been awarded the First Book Grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation (FBG-ISRF) for her project "Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambiqye, 1964-74". Read more about Dr Araújo's work here.

Explore newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital.

Tiny Traces presents a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past. Follow the stories of more than a dozen children from the African and Asian diasporas through personal items, physical artefacts, works of art and archival documents. Visitors can also explore the circumstances surrounding their admission to the Hospital, including the parents’ lives, the Hospital’s ties to Empire and the wider picture of colonial Britain.

Curated by Warwick PhD researcher Hannah Dennett

30 Sep 2022 - 19 Feb 2023

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Completing the shortlist is Horizons: A Global History of Science in which James Poskett, Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, challenges the traditional Eurocentric narrative in a radical retelling of the history of science and celebrates scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific and the parts they played in this story. This is his first book for a general readership.

Scientists in Ukraine have long fought for scientific freedom

From the Indian cottons that were traded around Asia and Africa in the Middle Ages, to the global dominance of the blue-and-white pottery of Jingdezhen, historian Maxine Berg introduces five books that transformed our understanding of the past millennium and are significant milestones in the development of the vibrant field of global history.