The ESRC Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Warwick, one of 21 such centres in the UK, embodies the university’s commitment to producing the next generation of leaders in social science research. Internationally renowned for its research excellence, Warwick is now inviting applications for an ESRC Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partner the Parliamentary Archives to commence in October 2016 on the subject of ‘From Suffragette to Citizen: Women and Parliament in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries.’ The Parliamentary Archives holds the historic records of the House of Commons and House of Lords dating back 500 years, providing innovative and expert information management, preservation, access and outreach services enabling anyone in the world to use Parliament’s records, both now and in the future.

For more information and details of how to apply, please see the advert on jobs.ac.uk.
 

The Times Higher Education (THE) has published an article, "Why the UK government should care about Giulio Regeni", by Neil Pyper and Hannah Waddilove, a Warwick University PhD student co-supervised by the departments of History and Politics and International Studies.

 
Ruth Lemon (MA History 2013-15) graduated from Warwick in July 2015, and is featured this month as the Warwick University Alumnus of the Month. She has been living in Cambodia for the past 18 months where she teaches English part time. She has volunteered and worked at Sovann Komar’s Children Village sporadically since 2009. Sovann Komar is an orphanage, home to 55 children who live with surrogate parents in a safe, clean, village-like community. She now runs SKOPE (Sovann Komar Outreach Program for Education) which is the part of their charity seeking to help others outside their orphanage. They locate poor, rural schools and provide vital education supplies such as exercise books, water wells, toilet blocks, teaching equipment, and stationery.

For more details, please see the Alumnus of the Month webpages.
 

Former History research student John Morgan (now an Economic History Society Power Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London), who successfully defended his Warwick PhD thesis earlier this month, was highly commended in the 2015 Journal of Historical Geography Best Paper Prize. His article 'Understanding Flooding in Early Modern England' (vol. 50, pp. 37-50) was one of three runners-up in this prestigious competition and the department would like to congratulate him on this success.

The Department is pleased to announce that it will be offering a range of History and History of Medicine Doctoral and Masters scholarships for October 2016 admission. Closing dates: 19 January 2016 for MPhil/PhD applicants and 15 February 2016 for MA applicants.

To be considered, candidates should complete an online University application.

For full details of the awards and the application procedure, please visit the PG Funding Opportunities webpage.

On Friday 4th December 2015 there will be a showing and discussion of the corruption and conflict in Seven Days in May, led by Warwick University PhD student and film historian Hannah Graves and hosted by Institute of Advanced Studies Junior Research Fellow Ellen Filor. Written by The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling and starring some of the foremost actors of the era (Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Fredric March), this film follows an attempted military coup to overthrow the American president because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty. Pederson-Graves will unpick the Cold War paranoia of the era and show how outside events impacted its reception by examining how Kennedy's assassination shortly before the release led to a new strategy for the premiere.

The Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Hannah Graves, who has been awarded the prestigious 2015 HOTCUS Postgraduate Essay Prize for her essay “The Value of an Endorsement: Reassessing Hollywood’s ‘Race Year’ Through the Debate over Pinky (1949)”.