Dr. Katherine Foxhall, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Leicester and former PhD student at the University of Warwick, has won the Harold D. Langley Book Award for Excellence in the History of Maritime Medicine for her book, Health, medicine, and the sea: Australian Voyages c. 1815-1860 published by Manchester University Press in 2012.

The Award announcement was made at the joint North American Society for Oceanic History, Naval Historical Foundation, North Atlantic Fisheries History Association and Society for the History of Navy Medicine conference held in Portland, Maine. The Award was created in honor of naval historian and retired Smithsonian curator, Dr. Harold D. Langley, who is also a Board member of the Foundation for the History of Navy Medicine. Board President RADM Frederic Sanford, MC, USN, RET and Dr. Kenneth J. Hagan made up the prize committe that selected Dr. Foxhall’s book.

Dr. Hagan writes, "Katherine Foxhall’s book cause[s] the reader emotionally to enter her poignantly depicted world of suffering souls making the seemingly endless sea journey from England and Ireland to Australia in the latter days of the age of sail. She has been able to paint her vivid verbal portrait by meticulously examining and digesting the hitherto largely ignored reports of surgeons who made the voyage charged with maintaining the health of free emigrants and convicts destined for a new life Down Under. It was a six-month’s travail of extreme hardship, seemingly endless deprivation and always-looming danger of death from disease. These surgeons were compelled to submit a report to the government upon reaching Australia if they wished to be paid for their services on the ship. Theirs are the reports that Katherine Foxhall has mined with the eye of a compassionate humanitarian poet living in the relatively antiseptic western world of the 21st century."

Dr Aysu Dincer Hadjianastasis, Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History at the Warwick University History Department, has written and had published the article '5 things you (probably) didn't know about the crusades' for HistoryExtra.

An article, "How to Win an Election in Uganda", regarding the recent Ugandan election co-authored by Nicole Beardsworth, PhD student in the departments of History and PaIS at Warwick University, has been published online by Newsweek.

Warwick History doctoral student Kyle Jackson has published an article from his thesis research in the latest issue of a prestigious journal in the field of South Asian Studies. The article appears in a special issue of the journal focusing on "Borderland Histories: Northeast India", and can be found online at:

Kyle Jackson, 'Globalizing an Indian Borderland Environment: Aijal, Mizoram, 1890–1919', Studies in History 32.1 (2016): 39-71.

Dr J E Smyth's new book, From Here to Eternity, has just been published by Palsgrave Macmillan and the British Film Institute. Dr J E Smyth was also a finalist for the 2014 Richard Wall Memorial Award for her book, Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance.

 
Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914‒1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City by Professor Christoph Mick has been published by Purdue University Press.

Known as Lemberg in German and Lwów in Polish, the city of L’viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the compelling story of how its inhabitants (Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Catholic Ukrainians, and Jews) reacted to the sweeping political changes during and after World Wars I and II. The Eastern Front shifted back and forth, and the city changed hands seven times. At the end of each war, L'viv found itself in the hands of a different state.

While serious tensions had existed among Poles, Ukrainians/Ruthenians, and Jews in the city, before 1914 eruptions of violence were still infrequent. The changes of political control over the city during World War I led to increased intergroup frictions, new power relations, and episodes of shocking violence, particularly against Jews. The city’s incorporation into the independent Polish Republic in November 1918 after a brief period of Ukrainian rule sparked intensified conflict. Ukrainians faced discrimination and political repression under the new government, and Ukrainian nationalists attacked the Polish state. In the 1930s, anti-Semitism increased sharply. During World War II, the city experienced first Soviet rule, then Nazi occupation, and finally Soviet conquest. The Nazis deported and murdered nearly all of the city’s large Jewish population, and at the end of the war the Soviet forces expelled the city’s Polish inhabitants.

Based on archival research conducted in L’viv, Kiev, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow, as well as an array of contemporary printed sources and scholarly studies, this book examines how the inhabitants of the city reacted to the changes in political control, and how ethnic and national ideologies shaped their dealings with each other. An earlier German version of this volume was published as Kriegserfahrungen in einer multiethnischen Stadt: Lemberg 1914‒1947 (2011).

Please also see the full list of the monographs and edited collections of the current academic staff of the Department, which includes this publication.
 

 
Dr Roberta Bivins of the Warwick History Department has her new publication, Contagious Communities, reviewed in New Scientist.