History News

The Warwick University History Department students currently engaged in the Venice Programme for the Autumn term, available to all third-year single-honour history students at Warwick, visited the Palazzo Ducale (the Doge's Palace) on Wednesday 21st October 2015 with their tutors Dr Jonathan Davies and Dr Celeste McNamara.

Dr Roberta Bivins' new academic publication, Contagious Communities, is informing discussions about the immigration crisis in the Italian national newspaper, la Corrierre della sera.

Dr Laura Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick, has reviewed the film Suffragette, a new film exploring the lives of working-class women militants, for History Today.

In the 1970s academics at Warwick were involved in bringing persecuted colleagues out of Pinochet's Chile. The Warwick Humanities Research Centre is hosting a session at 5pm on Monday 16th November 2015 in the Helen Martin Studio of the Warwick Arts Centre that will re-unite Alan Phillips, General Secretary of the World University Service, Catalina Palmer who came to the UK from Chile, and John King, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature, to talk about Warwick's role in this endeavour. To book your attendance at the session, please complete the online booking form.

 
Dr Roberta Bivins of the Warwick History Department has her new publication, Contagious Communities, reviewed in New Scientist.

Dr Anna Hájková of the Warwick University History Department has published an article in the Czech daily iDnes about historical continuities of Czech xenophobia toward refugees, called “Main thing they don’t stay here.”

 
Students and academics from the University of Warwick, working with the Vice-Chancellor’s wife Lynda Thrift, have put together a cookery book as a part of the University’s 50^th anniversary celebrations, Simple Scoff: The Anniversary Edition. The book offers cheap, simple recipes and cooking tips from around the University. It also features illustrations and poems by former students and staff such as BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas.

The cookery book will be given out free to new students joining the University this year as a part of their welcome packs. It is hoped the books will help students to eat healthily whilst living away from home, in some cases for the first time.

The book, put together by Professor Rebecca Earle of the University’s History Department, updates Simple Scoff, an innovative cookbook first published in 1972 by the University of Warwick Student Union and Lady Doris Butterworth, the wife of the University’s first Vice-Chancellor. Simple Scoff consisted of recipes and cooking advice contributed by students and other members of the University community, aimed explicitly at students.

Please see the full press release for more details.

A PBS documentary that Dr J E Smyth of the Warwick University History Department both worked on and appeared in with Hector Galan has won the Imagen Award 2015 for best documentary in Los Angeles.

The Imagen Awards aims to recognize and reward positive portrayals of Latinos in all forms of media, as well as to encourage and recognize the achievements of Latinos in the entertainment and communications industries. The Imagen Foundation works to create, promote, and enhance opportunities for all Latinos in front of and behind the camera and throughout the entertainment industry, and serve as a liaison between the industry and the Latino community by providing access, education and resources.