History News

On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dr Anna Hájková's essay 'How should we remember Auschwitz?' has been published in openDemocracy.

Following the sad passing of Emeritus Professor Gwynne Lewis in December 2014, The Guardian has published his obituary as written by former members of staff Professor Colin Jones and Emeritus Professor Robin Okey.

The London launch of the Warwick-BL AHRC-funded project "Africa’s Sons Under Arms" was held at the British Library on January 20th. The project team [David Lambert and Tim Lockley from Warwick, Phil Hatfield and Beth Cooper from the British Library, together with graduate students Melissa Bennett and Rosalyn Narayan] outlined the various research-focused components as well as plans for wider public engagement. Attendees included the Jamaican ambassador, community organisations with an interest in the Caribbean, academics and students from a number of different universities, and British Library staff. There was widespread enthusiasm for the project, and it became apparent that there were a number of potentially exciting avenues for future collaboration that the project team will follow up on.

For the third time ILÊWASI has made an award to Malik Hammad Ahmad, PhD student in the History Department at the University of Warwick, for the project on Peace Education. From 13 July to 17 July 2015 The Summer School on the Rights of Children and Peace Education will be held at The Youth Institute, Benicassim, Spain. For further details of the Summer School and how to apply, please click here.
 

The Warwick University History Department seeks to appoint a one-year full-time postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, ‘The Cultural History of the NHS’, a collaborative project between Principal Investigators Roberta Bivins and Mathew Thomson of the Warwick History Department.

The full advert and job description are now available, with a closing date for applications of 15th February 2015 and interviews to take place in the last week of February 2015.
 

Dr Howard Chiang of the Warwick University History Department has now taken up the co-editorship of the book series Studies for the International Society for Cultural History, published by Pickering & Chatto. Series publications include the following:

Forthcoming

• A Cultural Study of Mary and the Annunciation (2015)

Published

• Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century
• Crime and the Fascist State, 1850–1940
• Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities
• A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area
• A History of Emotions, 1200–1800
• McLuhan's Global Village Today
• Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945

Congratulations to Warwick University History Department undergraduate student Alex Schiphorst on the publication of his grandfather's autobiography From Night Flak to Hijack: It's a Small World, which Alex has both edited and written the epilogue for:

 
This is the autobiography of Reginald Levy, a British pilot who reached a total of 25,090 flying hours in over forty years of civil, military and commercial aviation. He recounts his training and military operations as an RAF Bomber Command pilot during the Second World War. Enthralled and immersed within the ever growing world of aviation, he flies sixty-four types of aircraft between 1941 and 1981 and takes part in the Berlin Airlift. He joins the Belgian airline Sabena in 1952. In 1972, he is hijacked by Black September terrorists and plays a heroic part in the liberation of the hostages thanks to his professionalism and training. Not only does the book offer an insight into the hardships and camaraderie of the Second World War and of the Cold War, it also gives a first-hand account of a Palestinian terrorist attempt. Two of the Israeli commandos who freed the hostages would go on to become prime ministers of Israel – Barak and Netanyahu. The epilogue is provided by his youngest grandson, Alex Schiphorst.
 

The Director of Graduate Studies is pleased to announce that the Department will be offering a number of full-time doctoral studentships and MA bursaries to outstanding candidates applying for Autumn 2015-16 admission. The awards will be available to both Home-EU and overseas applicants applying to study full-time. In order to be considered, candidates need to have submitted an online University admission application by 12 January 2015.

Further details of both types of award can be found at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/applying/pgadmissions/pgfunding