3 March 2010, 1.30-3.00pm, Social Studies Building, Rm S0.98

The School of Health and Social Studies offers the chance to meet the authors of six new titles:

Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering (eds), Hannah Bradby & Gillian Lewando Hundt; Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities (eds), Ravi K Thiara & Aisha K Gill; Domestic Violence Working with Men: Research, Practice Experiences and Integrated Responses, Andrew Day, Patrick O’Leary, Donna Chung & Donna Justo; Ethnic Minorities and Politics: The British Electoral System, Muhammad Anwar; The Real Cost of Poor Housing, Maggie Davidson, Mike Roys, Simon Nicol, David Ormandy, Peter Ambrose; Gender and Policy in France, Gill Allwood & Khursheed Wadia.

The Medieval Reading Group is an interdisciplinary student-run discussion group, and its peer-reviewed journal 'Marginalia', publishing the work of graduate students, appears bi-annually. Submissions are invited for the 2010 issue from graduates working in all areas of medieval studies, addressing the theme of “Apocalypse”.

Proposals for papers should be sent no later than 31 January 2010 to anb36@cam.ac.uk. We will be happy answer any queries before the deadline.

Dr Katherine Angel, Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Medicine has had an article, "The Precautions of Clinical Waste: Disposable Medical Sharps in the United Kingdom", published in Biosocieties. The article can be viewed at:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=6159948&jid=BIO&volumeId=4&issueId=2-3&aid=6159944&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S1745855209990160

Dr. Katherine Angel, a postdoctoral candidate in the Centre for the History of Medicine, had an article published in the Independent Magazine this weekend (31-1 Nov). The headline was 'London's Crossbones Graveyard is the setting for a very eerie Halloween celebration', and the full text can be viewed here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/londons-crossbones-graveyard-is-the-setting-for-a-very-eerie-halloween-celebration-1810973.html

Warwick postgraduate student Sarah Easterby-Smith has a chapter in the recently published Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology. This is a Max Planck Institute for the History of Science preprint, edited by Jean-Paul Gaudilliere, Daniel J. Kevles and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger. Sarah's chapter is entitled 'Propagating Commerce. Plant Breeding and Market Competition in London and Paris, c.1770-c.1800'.

A copy is available for viewing in Tracy Horton's (Postgraduate and Research Co-ordinator) office, H.342.

A new book by History PhD students Lydia Plath and Sergio Lussana is available on amazon at the following URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-White-Masculinity-American-1800-2000/dp/1443805963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241790571&sr=1-1

PhD student Laura Sangha has contributed a chapter entitled 'Revelation and Reckoning: Angels and the Apocalypse in Reformation England, c. 1559-1625’ to the book 'The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul', due for publication 2009. Laura's article explores perceptions surrounding angels and the afterlife in England, examining the role that angels had in the strategies adopted by Christians to conceptualise and prepare for the Apocalypse as foretold in the Book of Revelation

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.