The Department of History is looking to appoint a Research Fellow for a fixed-term period of 24 months from 1 September 2025 to work with Dr Anna Toropova on the Wellcome Trust funded Career Development Award: ‘Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953’.

This project examines scientific, medical and cultural approaches to psychological trauma in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1953.

The full advert and job description can be found on the University of Warwick website. For informal queries, please contact Dr Anna Toropova at anna.toropova.1@warwick.ac.uk.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 16 March 2025 at 11.55pm.

BBC News have published an article on the restoration of a historic Venetian record featuring History's Professor Luca Mola.

Prof Mola, who rediscovered the document, said it was a "unique window into the active trade routes that brought east and west together" between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Read the article in full.

Head of Department, Professor Tim Lockley MBE, features in a Times article about the discovery of three complete and two partial copies of Alistair Cooke’s famous ‘Letter from America’ series, dating from the late 1940s and the early 1950s, which were missing from the BBC archives.

Read the article in full here.

Prof Lockley has also been interviewed by Vic Minnett of BBC CWR for their feature ‘Vicapedia’ discussing why cricketers wear white jumpers.

Listen again on BBC Sounds from 2:40.

Professor J.E. Smyth appeared on BBC 4's Woman's Hour, 30 October 2024, to talk about her 'fiery, page-turning biography' [Sight & Sound] of pioneering American screenwriter and labour leader Mary C. McCall Jr.

Listen to the show at the following link: Woman's Hour - Online scams, US election, Mary McCall Jr - BBC Sounds

Dr Martha McGill, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow for the project "Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in early Modern Britain", will be appearing in a six-part documentary series, 'Witches: Truth Behind the Trials', airing on the National Geographic channel weekly from 8pm today, Wednesday 30 October.

During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat Kümin has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications. Documented from the Middle Ages to the present, seemingly only in and around territories of the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the custom provides fascinating insights into how local societies saw themselves and what they wished to pass on to successive generations.

The project, supported by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, has so far identified over 1600 sites and thousands of separate deposits (at one Zurich church, there were no fewer than 20 between 1505 and 1996). The funder has just released a video series of six episodes (accessible in both English and German) documenting field work in Switzerland in autumn 2023.

[English Trailer] [Episodes] [Project Homepage]

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme, for Fellowships hosted at Warwick starting in the 2024/2025 academic year. Please note that initial applications/expressions of interest need to be sent to Alan Ashton-Smith, the Research and Strategy Manager for the Faculty of Arts (Alan.Ashton-Smith@warwick.ac.uk) by 5pm Thursday 30 November 2023 containing the following information:

• A short description of the proposed project (maximum 2 A4 pages)
• A copy of the applicant's CV (maximum 2 A4 pages)
• The name of an academic in their proposed host Department or School. Candidates should contact their prospective mentor in advance of submitting an Expression of Interest.
• The names of three referees. Please note that referees will not be asked to provide a statement at this stage.

The full advertisement can be found here: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at University of Warwick (jobs.ac.uk).

The Churchwardens' Accounts of England and Wales on the My-Parish virtual platform, co-ordinated by the History department's Professor Beat Kümin, have been updated and are as complete as can be.

This will be of particular interest to the Parish Scholars Community. Follow My-Parish on Twitter for updates.