History News

If anyone has any empty ink cartridges that they normally just throw away.  We now have a recycling box in the Graduate Space that will be collected once a month.  The collection is for the dogs trust charity. Just pop them in the internal post to Kerry Drakeley if you are located outside the building. More information about the charity can be found at http://www.dogstrust.org.uk

The link below provides details of seminars and lectures scheduled within the Faculty. If you would like to advertise an event please email Kerry Drakeley, artsfaculty@warwick.ac.uk

Faculty Schedule

Prof. Trevor Burnard (Dept of History) has presented a Colonial Americas workshop at America's Princeton University on 3rd March.  The subject was "Time, Space and Community in the African Period of Slavery in British America, 1607-1807"

On 12th March he lectures on "Time, Space, and Nation in the Reconsideration of the Contact Period of Early American History, 1550-1680" at The Newberry Library in Chicago (Ill.).  The lecture is a joint presentation of The Center for Renaissance Studies  and the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture.

Further Details

Thursday 24th December	Customary
Friday 25th December	Statuary (Christmas Day)
Saturday 26th December	-
Sunday 27th December	-
Monday 28th December	Statuary (Boxing Day in lieu)
Tuesday 29th December	Customary
Wednesday 30th December	Customary
Thursday 31st December	Customary
Friday 1st January	Statuary (New Year’s Day)
(Term begins 11th January 2010 and ends 20th March 2010)

For a complete list of dates click

http://go.warwick.ac.uk/arts-elearning - the Arts E-learning home page

Things you might do:

1. Create video and podcasts with the Media Workshop.
2. Book the Arts E-Squad to help create online learning.
3. Develop a plagiarism strategy with your department.
4. Use Sitebuilder as a Wiki, with glossaries, comments, video and audio.
5. Share your ideas on new Sitebuilder developments (including student tracking and a personalised home page).
6. Join the Future Platforms for Next Practice research project.
7. Watch a video demonstrating the use of videos, glossaries, calendars, Quizbuilder and other tools for the International Design and Communications MA.

For further details click

A new agreement between Warwick and Universita’ Ca’ Foscari in Venice means Warwick staff and students are set to benefit from a range of opportunities, including sharing student services, teaching and research seminars.

Students at Ca’Foscari will have the opportunity to attend Warwick’s classes in History and History of Art at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava (subject to capacity) and in return, Warwick students taking part in the ‘Venice term’ programme will benefit from the use of Ca’ Foscari’s library and access to its language courses at local student rates.

Professor Bernard Capp and Professor Trevor Burnard play key roles in the BBC1 series Who do you think you are?

The episode features Kevin Whately, famous for playing working-class characters, who it is revealed has a surprisingly affluent family history. Professor Capp gives expert advice to Kevin when he discovers that his ancestors, the Thomson brothers, were amongst the richest and most powerful men of their time. Not only were they close associates of Oliver Cromwell, but their fortune, made in the new colonies of America and the West Indies, helped fund the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War.

The episode will be shown on 2nd March 2009 (further details).

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of emeritus Professor Michael Mallett on 2nd September 2008. Together with Sir John Hale, Michael founded the Venice programme in 1967 and he directed it from 1970-1999.