The department is very sad to learn of the death of Prof. Trevor Burnard.

Many congratulations to graduate Sara Akhavan-Malayeri, the Maxine Berg Prize winner of 2024! Her dissertation entitled "The Fight over the Five ‘Soviet-born Wives of British Subjects’: the Impact of Anglo-Soviet Marriages in Early Cold War Britain” was awarded Best Dissertation in the Field of Global History. Sara was also awarded the Final Year Undergraduate Iain Smith Single-Honours Prize set up by a bequest from Emeritus Reader Iain Smith.

The other 2024 prize winners are:

• Jacob McVaddy - Final Year Undergraduate Felix Dennis Dissertation Prize
• Richard Gregory - Final Year Undergraduate Roger Magraw History Joint-Honours prize
• Jade McFarlane - Final Year Undergraduate Year Abroad Reflective Assignment Prize.

A massive congratulations to the other prize winners and all Warwick History graduates 2024!

Find full details of the History prizes awarded at the end of each year here.

The Department of History at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce that the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme is now open and welcomes expressions of interest. The full outline of the process and further details are available hereLink opens in a new window.

History's Dr Martha McGill, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, has won the individual staff "Outstanding Public Engagement" award at The Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE).

WAPCE seek to recognise the vital contributions Warwick staff and students make in engaging the public – on an international and national level as well as crucially within our region and local communities – in our learning and discovery, with the goals of sharing and co-producing knowledge, strengthening the role we play in the region and showcasing the role Warwick plays nationally and internationally in making the world a better place.

Full details of Martha's award and more about WAPCE here.

The Department of History seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Modern History on a full-time basis for a fixed-term period of 12 months from 1 September 2024.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of one of the largest History departments in the UK with a thriving community of teachers and researchers covering a range of disciplines and geographical areas.

The full advert and job description can be found on the University of Warwick website. For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Tim Lockley (Head of Department) at t.j.lockley@warwick.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 23 June 2024 at 11:45pm.

Congratulations to Dr Angela McShane, Department of History Honorary Reader, and Professor Christopher Marsh, Queens University Belfast, who were named winners at the REMA Awards ceremony. Every two years REMA puts under the spotlight the projects that reflect the vision and versatility of today's Early Music sector.

Dr McShane and Prof Marsh's '100 Ballads' project, which identified 100 of the biggest musical hits from 17th-century England, was named Interdisciplinary Project of the Year.

Dr Anna Hajkova, Co-Director of the Centre for Global Jewish Studies, has arranged a unique chance to see an otherwise closed Jewish Cemetery in Coventry and a small temporary exhibition on Coventry’s Jewish history currently shown in the Herbert Gallery.

More information about the event can be found on the Centre for Global Jewish Studies website hereLink opens in a new window.

Vice Chancellor Professor Stuart Croft will be hosting the annual Distinguished Africa Lecture in June. The lecture title is “Higher Education in Africa in the era of Artificial Intelligence”.

Details below:

• Monday 3 June 2024, 4:15pm

• University of Warwick, The Oculus, Room OC0.03, and online

• Guest speaker: Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, United Nations University Rector & UN Under-Secretary-General

• Title: Higher Education in Africa in the era of Artificial Intelligence

For more information and to register visit the website distinguishedafricalecture2024 (warwick.ac.uk)