The department is very sad to learn of the death of Prof. Trevor Burnard.

Many congratulations to graduate Sara Akhavan-Malayeri, the Maxine Berg Prize winner of 2024! Her dissertation entitled "The Fight over the Five ‘Soviet-born Wives of British Subjects’: the Impact of Anglo-Soviet Marriages in Early Cold War Britain” was awarded Best Dissertation in the Field of Global History. Sara was also awarded the Final Year Undergraduate Iain Smith Single-Honours Prize set up by a bequest from Emeritus Reader Iain Smith.

The other 2024 prize winners are:

• Jacob McVaddy - Final Year Undergraduate Felix Dennis Dissertation Prize
• Richard Gregory - Final Year Undergraduate Roger Magraw History Joint-Honours prize
• Jade McFarlane - Final Year Undergraduate Year Abroad Reflective Assignment Prize.

A massive congratulations to the other prize winners and all Warwick History graduates 2024!

Find full details of the History prizes awarded at the end of each year here.

Professor JE Smyth's upcoming publication is featured in an article by the Guardian about Mary C McCall Jr, the female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history.

Professor Smyth's new book, "Mary C McCall Jr: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter", will be published in September and aims to restore Mary C McCall Jr’s reputation as one of the film industry’s most important figures.

Read the article in full.

The Department of History at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce that the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme is now open and welcomes expressions of interest. The full outline of the process and further details are available hereLink opens in a new window.

Dr Angela McShane, Department of History Honorary Reader, features in the latest episode of "That Shakespeare Life", the #2 Shakespeare history podcast in the world, and the weekly history series on YouTube.

Dr McShane, along with Christopher Marsh and Andy Watts, has shared the history of songs that were the pop music of Shakespeare's lifetime.

Listen to the podcast here: http://www.cassidycash.com/ep324.

History's Dr Martha McGill, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, has won the individual staff "Outstanding Public Engagement" award at The Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE).

WAPCE seek to recognise the vital contributions Warwick staff and students make in engaging the public – on an international and national level as well as crucially within our region and local communities – in our learning and discovery, with the goals of sharing and co-producing knowledge, strengthening the role we play in the region and showcasing the role Warwick plays nationally and internationally in making the world a better place.

Full details of Martha's award and more about WAPCE here.

The Department of History seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow in African History on a full-time basis for a fixed-term period of 12 months from 1 September 2024.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of one of the largest History departments in the UK with a thriving community of teachers and researchers covering a range of disciplines and geographical areas.

The full advert and job description can be found on the University of Warwick website. For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Tim Lockley (Head of Department) at t.j.lockley@warwick.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 July 2024 at 11.55pm.

BBC news uses expert comment from the former Head of Department (1992-1995) and Emeritus Professor Bernard Capp in their article "How do we feel when leaders cry". Professor Capp comments on attitudes towards crying in public changing several times throughout history.

Read the full article.