History News

Final-year undergraduate students studying the "Treasure Fleets of the Eastern Ocean" module with Professor Maxine Berg visited the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on Friday 27th January 2012 to further their understanding of the topic.
 

Candidates interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the Department by Friday 3rd February 2012.

The recently recorded Venice Programme Video is now available to view online.

The new book by Dr Dan Branch, 'Kenya : Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011' (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2012) is reviewed by allAfrica.com, a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.

Professor Peter Marshall features in "Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters" on Channel 4, where Tony Robinson reveals a terrifying world of walking corpses and evil spirits - the world that our ancestors thought they lived in. The episode is available from the Channel 4 On Demand website.

Dr Tim Lockley, Associate Professor, History, and Reader in Comparative American Studies, took part in last week's symposium on 'Slavery & Freedom in Savannah' in Georgia, US. The event included giving talks on black Savannah history to 300 local people and school children.

Dr Jennifer Smyth, Associate Professor in History, has been selected as one of the Getty Scholars during academic year 2011-2012. Between January and June 2012, Dr Smyth will be based at the Getty Research Institute, working on her project The Historical Image in the Contested Frame: Fred Zinnemann's Cinematic Archive.

A Professor of History at the University of Warwick is one of only 38 academics to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy at its Annual General Meeting on 21 July.

Professor Carolyn Steedman is the latest scholar to join the prestigious Academy which is the UK’s national body for the promotion of the humanities and social sciences and joins the existing 900 Fellows, including Marina Warner, Seamus Heaney, Eric Hobsbawm and Lord Bragg.

Professor Steedman was delighted with the honour although she was unable to attend the awards dinner itself because of her commitments at graduation day at the University of Warwick where one of her students was receiving his PhD in History.

Talvin Gill, whose thesis examined the social and political history of the Indian Workers’ Association from 1930 to the 1990s, graduated alongside his twin brother, Jag, who was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature.

She said: “I would have loved to have been at the Academy’s award dinner for what would have been a tremendous occasion. It was a difficult choice to make but I felt I must stay here to see my student, Tal Gill, whose doctorate I supervised, receive his PhD.”

Carolyn joined the University in 1984 and lives locally in Leamington Spa. She is a graduate of the University of Sussex and obtained her PhD from Cambridge in 1989.

The Academy’s President, Sir Adam Roberts, said: “I congratulate all the distinguished Fellows who have been elected to the Academy this year, on achieving this peer group recognition of the outstanding contribution they’ve made to scholarship and research in the humanities or social sciences. Election is not only an honour, but also a beginning. I look forward to their active participation in the life and work of the Academy.’