Maxine Berg has been awarded funding from the Connecting Cultures GRP ('Keeping Cultures Connected during the Pandemic') to support a digital concert series by the Oxford-based baroque orchestra, Instruments of Time and Truth.

The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Modern World (CUP) by Prof Anne Gerritsen

Back in Fashion: Western Fashion from the Middle Ages to the Present(YUP) by Prof Giorgio Riello

In a new post that has appeared on the British Academy blog, Maxine Berg writes: 'The pressing issues of financial crisis, inequality and climate change call for a reformulation of current economic models. A closer integration of economics and economic history is likely to be a central part of this reformulation. For economists, there could be a new curiosity about what it means to think about actors and institutions ‘in time’, that is, historically. Equally for economists, the impact of their research will depend on making it accessible to historians and other social scientists. For historians this could bring a revival of historical work on material life in the years ahead. How can we open dialogue, engage with each other, and equip our students with the tools and historical context they need?'. Read the full piece here on https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/.

A new article has been published by our colleague David Anderson on on Kenya's FGM crisis of the inter-war years. Please see the link below. David M. Anderson, 'Women missionaries and colonial silences in Kenya's female "circumcision" controversy', The English Historical Review 133, no.565 (2018)