Dr Anna Neima will be joining the Department of History as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in September 2021 to start a new research project on 'White Diasporic Families and the Caribbean, 1930s-1980s'. She has just had her first book published, The Utopians (Picador, 2021), which examines the attempts made by six communities to build 'perfect' societies in the aftermath of the First World War.

The UK will see an annular solar eclipse where the Moon will partially cover the Sun. The fear of the unknown and a bit of politics drove the desire for understanding explains Dr James Poskett, Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick.

Read the excellent letter by Jude Wilkinson, a first year undergraduate in PPE, in defence of the study of history

Final year student Neyat Solomon Zerabruk reflects on the conviction of Derek Chauvin