History News

Warwick Univeristy History PhD candidate Anna Bruzzone has her excellent article "Chickens come home to roost: State building and the credibility conundrum in Somalia" published on the African Arguments blogsite, ran by the Royal African Society.

An exciting new arts project has been created by The University of Warwick. ‘Growing Well: a recent history of growing your own’ by PhD student Sophie Greenway will go up on display at University Hospital in Coventry at the end of November as part of an ongoing partnership with the Hospital’s Healing Arts Programme.

‘Growing Well’ tells the story of food growing in Coventry over the twentieth century, including ‘Dig for Victory’ during the Second World War, an experimental housing project that was to include organic growing on site, an attempt to repackage allotments as leisure gardens, and the establishment of the famous organic gardens at Ryton, now called Garden Organic. Visitors can also learn what UHCW is doing to promote healthy eating and the outdoors, including the Hospital’s award-winning Jubilee Nature Reserve.

On Tuesday 25^th November between 10am and 1pm there will be an event held in University Hospital’s Outpatients department to celebrate the new exhibit and promote growing and eating well in Coventry and Warwickshire. To find out more and add your own memories to the project visit www.growingwelluhcw.wordpress.com.

 
Editors Notes:

Sophie Greenway is a PhD student at the Centre for the History of Medicine, and has also worked as a history teacher and museum curator. Sophie’s project, entitled ‘Growing well: Dirt, health and the home gardener in Britain 1900-1970’ explores links between the environment and health in the context of domestic vegetable growing. She investigates the historical reasons why some people prefer to buy polished carrots, whilst others regard the muddy ones from a local veg box as more healthy.

The Healing Arts Programme at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust compliments patient care and welfare through a diverse range of activities, including visual and performing arts. The programme is funded by UHCW Charity and helps soften the hospital with quirky art exhibitions, creative workshops in ward dayrooms and music. For more information visit www.uhcwcharity.org/art.

Sophie can be contacted in the following ways:

email: s.a.greenway@warwick.ac.uk
twitter: SophieGreenway1
web: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/uhcw/growwell/

Why do Czechs love redemptive stories of Winton? Don’t they let them forget about the role of Gentile Czechs in the Holocaust? Dr Anna Hájková pushes Czechs to ask hard questions in her recent article, 'NÁZOR: Česká pohádka o Wintonovi aneb holokaust s happy endem', published in DNES.

 
The dissertation of Dr Anna Hájková, Prisoner Society in the Terezín Ghetto, 1941-1945, has won the Herbert Steiner Prize, awarded for the best unpublished academic work in history of National socialism, resistance and persecution, or the history of the workers’ movement.

The 2014 Warwick in Venice Public Lecture 'Why does Machiavelli Matter?' has been given by Emeritus Reader Dr Humfrey Butters FRHistS at the University of Warwick Research and Teaching Centre in Venice. Dr Butters was introduced by Mr Ken Sloan, the Registrar and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Warwick, and by Professor Peter Marshall, the Deputy Head of the History Department. The lecture was given to distinguished guests, academics, and Warwick students studying History and History of Art in Venice.
 

An article by Dr Anna Hájková on the omissions in a memoir of a Holocaust survivor who later became a historian has now been published in Tablet:

Candidates interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the Department by midnight GMT on Monday 5th January 2015. Please check the details of what is required from potential applicants.

The Warwick University History Department is currently recruiting an Associate Professor of Britain and Empire, to join the Department on 1st September 2015. The deadline for applications is 30th November 2014, and more details regarding the post and how to apply are available from the University's vacancies webpages.

Candidates will conduct research in the history of Britain and the British Empire, and be prepared to work in collaboration with colleagues within the Department, and across the University. The successful candidate will be expected to build research networks in their specialism beyond the University.

The successful candidate will have a proven record of achievement in research, and have demonstrated excellence in publication in an area or areas of the modern history of Britain and the British Empire. They will contribute to the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of British, imperial and global history. They will have undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience, a track record of successful funding bids, experience of, or potential to participate in collaborative grant initiatives and management, and the ability to participate as appropriate in the administration of the History Department.

The Department has an outstanding reputation for its teaching and research in British and global history. Modern British and imperial historians play leading roles in the department’s flagship research centres: the Centre for the History of Medicine, the European History Research Centre and the Global History and Culture Centre. The University is home to the Modern Records Centre, a unique archival resource for research and teaching in the fields of British, global and imperial history.

All applications must be accompanied by a CV and covering letter. Writing samples and module outlines will be requested from candidates at the longlisting stage of the recruitment process and should not be submitted with the initial application.