News from the Global History and Culture Centre

Congratulations to Elizabeth Denny who has received one of the ten fellowships to attend the 2015 International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Monash University in Australia.

Congratulations to Emilia Antiglio has won the 2015 World History Association/Phi Alpha Theta Undergraduate Paper Prize with the essay 'The Diffusion of porcelaine des Indes in Eighteenth-Century France: from Lorient to Paris and beyond, 1720-1775'.

 
Many congratulations to Professor Giorgio Riello, winner of the 2014 World History Association Bentley Book Prize for Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (CUP 2013).

Please also see the other publications of the Centre members.
 

On Monday 15 July 2013, Professor Jan de Vries was awarded an honorary degree of letters from the University of Warwick. Please see the full text of the speech he delivered and the full text of the laudatio delivered by Professor Maxine Berg.

 
In recognition of the five year anniversary of the creation of the Global History and Culture Centre in 2007, the Centre has published the 2012 Centre Leaflet. The Leaflet details the varied activities and achievements of both the Centre and its members.