History News

Emeritus Professor Carolyn Steedman will be visiting Chicago to deliver a lecture, 'Nothing to Say But Itself. Writing at the End of the Early Modern Era in England', at the Newberry Library on the 18th October 2014 and a second lecture, 'A Lawyer's Letter. Everyday Uses of the Law in Early Nineteenth-Century England', at the Nicholson Center for British Studies, University of Chicago on the 20th October 2014.
 

 
On 6th October 2014 Christopher Prentice, the British Ambassador to Italy, spoke to an audience at the University of Warwick in Venice, including the third-year single honours History students engaged in studying 'Florence and Venice in the Renaissance'. His topic was 'Better Together or Better Apart?'

 
Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice, by Dr Rosa Salzberg, has been published by Manchester University Press.

Ephemeral City explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of one of the city's most productive and creative industries from the bottom up and a new and unexpected vision of Renaissance culture, characterised by the fluid mobility and dynamic intermingling of texts, ideas, goods and people.

Closely intertwined with oral culture and often peddled in the streets, cheap printed texts helped to open up new audiences for literature, providing information and entertainment to a diverse public and transforming the city into an epicentre of vernacular literature and performance. Examining the ways in which the production and dissemination of cheap print infiltrated Venice's urban environment and changed the course of its cultural life, the book also traces how local authorities responded by escalating censorship and control over the course of the sixteenth century.

Ephemeral City will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern European and Italian Renaissance culture and society and the history of the book and communication.

Please also see the Academic Publications section of the website for details of all academic publications by the staff of the Warwick History Department.

4.30 - 6pm, Wednesday 15th October 2014, R1.04 (Ramphal building)

Distinguished visiting scholar Professor Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley) will present a special seminar for postgraduates and staff. Please go to this page to download some material to be read in advance of the seminar.

This is a joint History Dept- GHCC event.

In an exciting new venture, Professor Chris Read, Dr Tim Lockley and Dr Sarah Richardson have been appointed as editors of the Modern History Review. The magazine is published by Philip Allan for Hodder Education and is aimed at sixth-form students helping them to learn more, gain deeper subject knowledge and the skills to study independently, to get the grade they're really looking for. The Warwick team view this as an opportunity to bring current cutting-edge research directly to A level students in an accessible format. The first issue has just been published and has articles on the origins of the First World War, on the Cold War and on Gladstone and Disraeli.

The Warwick University History Department is currently recruiting two full-time research fellows for the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award project ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000’, a collaborative project between Professor Hilary Marland of the Warwick History Department and Dr Catherine Cox of University College Dublin:

• A full-time Research Fellow is sought for 2 years commencing 1 December 2014. The postholder will be based at Warwick in Year 1 and in Dublin in Year 2.
• A full-time Research Fellow is sought for 3 years commencing 1 January 2015. The postholder will be based at Warwick and will make research visits to Ireland.

The closing date for applications is 15th October 2014.

 
Dr Anna Hájková's essay, 'The Last of the Self-Righteous: Claude Lanzmann’s version of Benjamin Murmelstein' published in Histoire@Politique.