History News
PhD Student Hannah Graves awarded 2015 HOTCUS Postgraduate Essay Prize
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)”.
Applications for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016)
Candidates interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the History Department by midnight GMT on Sunday 6th September 2015. Please check the details of what is required from potential applicants.
Recruitment of Ten Teaching Fellows
As a result of outstanding success in both research and teaching, the Warwick University History Department is delighted to announce the recruitment of ten fixed-term full-time teaching fellows for the period 21st September 2015 to 15th July 2016:
The closing date for applications for all ten posts is 17th August 2015. Please direct any informal queries to the Department Administrator, Mr Robert Horton, at R.S.Horton@warwick.ac.uk.
Professor David Anderson on Radiolab Podcast: Mau Mau
Professor David Anderson is one of the guests on the Radiolab podcast, Mau Mau.
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This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out of the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known, offering a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.
Just down the road from a pub in rural Hanslope Park, England is a massive building — the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known. This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out and offered a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.
When professor Caroline Elkins came across a stray document left by the British colonial government in Nairobi, Kenya, she opened the door to a new reckoning with the history of one of Britain's colonial crown jewels, and the fearsome group of rebels known as the Mau Mau. We talk to historians, archivists, journalists and send our producer Jamie York to visit the Mau Mau. As the new history of Kenya is concealed and revealed, document by document, we wonder what else lies in wait among the miles of records hidden away in Hanslope Park.
Produced by Matt Kielty with reporting from Jamie York, with guests David Anderson, Martyn Day, Caroline Elkins, Katie Engelhart, and Gitu wa Kahengeri.
50th Anniversary Event: Young Women at University in the 1960s and 1970s
Dame Margaret Drabble and Professor Carolyn Steedman will hold a discussion on the theme ‘Young Women at University in the 1960s and 1970s’ as one of the History Department’s Fiftieth Celebration Events on Wednesday the 14th of October, 2015. This will take place between 4:30pm and 6:45pm in the Wolfson Research Exchange.
Dame Margaret Drabble is the author of eighteen novels, short stories, and many works of non-fiction, especially literary history and biography. Some of her best-known and earliest novels, including A Summer Birdcage(1963), The Millstone (1965), and Jerusalem the Golden (1967), describe the challenges, emotional conflicts and experiences of young women seeking higher education and intellectual fulfilment, but also sexuality and motherhood during the sixties. Later novels follow women like these into the new century. She has won many literary prizes, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Cambridge in 2006. She was awarded a CBE in 1980 and a DBE in 2008.
Professor Carolyn Steedman FBA is Emeritus Professor of History at Warwick. She writes on the social and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on concepts of class, selfhood and identity, and on law and labour. One of her best-known books is Landscape for a Good Woman (1986) about a mother and daughter becoming young women against the backdrop of twentieth-century class circumstances. Among current projects is a contribution to Miles Taylor's The Utopian Universities, about the new universities of the 1960s.
Conference: New Subjectivities, New Emotions, New Politics
This weekend, 12th to the 13th June 2015, is the conference New Subjectivities, New Emotions, New Politics: Oppositional Politics and Counter-Cultures Across the Iron Curtain to be held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, Europe University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.
The conference is co-organized by Joachim C. Häberlen (University of Warwick), Mark Keck-Szajbel (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), and Kate Mahoney (University of Warwick), and the conference program is available online.
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Applications invited for a Doctoral Studentship in the field of the History of Medicine
The Warwick University Centre for the History of Medicine is delighted to advertise a Home/EU fees only equivalent Doctoral Studentship in the field of the History of Medicine.
The successful candidate will also receive a bursary of £3000 (£1000 per annum in each of the first 3 years for full-time students or pro rata for part-time students), to defray research expenses. After a successful MPhil to PhD upgrade the post holder will be offered the opportunity for paid teaching of undergraduate seminars within the Department of History. Other opportunities for paid research work may become available depending on the successful candidate’s interests.
Applicants will be considered for an October 2015 start date.
Please see the full advert for more details.
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PhD Student John Morgan awarded an Economic History Society Fellowship at the IHR
Warwick University History Department PhD student, John Morgan, has been awarded a prestigious Economic History Society Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) in London.
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