History News
PhD students to publish book on Black & White Masculinity in the American South
The department is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication (2009) of a book entitled "Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800-2000", co-authored by PhD students Lydia Plath and Sergio Lussana. The book is published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle.
English & Welsh Diaspora: Regional Cultures, Disparate Voices, Remembered Lives Loughborough University, 13-16 April, 2011
Classics in Discussion
The new Warwick podcast 'Classics in Discussion' is now available in iTunesU:
The History of Parliament Undergraduate Dissertation Competition
The History of Parliament is again in 2009 running its competition for undergraduates designed to encourage the study of British and Irish parliamentary or political history. A prize of £500 will be awarded to the best undergraduate dissertation on a subject relating to British or Irish parliamentary or political history. Each University History department is invited to enter one dissertation which they consider to qualify.
The 2nd Arthur Conan Doyle: Edinburgh and Medicine Conference
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth on 22nd May 1859, the 2nd Arthur Conan Doyle: Edinburgh and Medicine Conference will be held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland on the 22nd and 23rd May 2009. Invited speakers include Owen Dudley Edwards and Andrew Lycett, with other key speakers to be announced shortly.
Warwick History staff podcasts feature among the top History downloads on itunesU
Erasmus Mundus Call for Proposals
On 16th December 2009, the European Parliament and the Council approved the establishment of the Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 action programme. Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education that aims to promote European higher education, to help improve and enhance the career prospects of students and to promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with Third Countries, in accordance with EU external policy objectives in order to contribute to the sustainable development of Third Countries in the field of higher education.
Bed and Breakfast Rates at Arden, Radcliffe and Scarman
Warwick Conferences is reducing the price of bed and breakfast bookings for visitors to the University from £94 to £69 at Radcliffe and Scarman, and from £83.10 to £59 at Arden (with lower rates at weekends) for all advance bookings made on or after Monday 9th March