Departmental news

Work is now underway on a major new project to digitise internationally significant archives relating to the Spanish Civil War, including 45 files from the Trades Union Congress collection.

The project will result in over 10,000 pages of archive material being made available online free of charge. Transcriptions will be available for every item, allowing researchers to search through the mass of material for key words or phrases.

It is anticipated that the project will be completed in Spring 2012.

More information is available elsewhere on our website.

Images and information about archives relating to the 1926 General Strike are now available on the Modern Records Centre website.

'A General Strike photograph album' has been added to our 'image gallery'. This contains copies of 25 press photographs taken during the General Strike in May 1926. The majority show scenes in London, including of strike-breaking work by volunteers on the transport system and in the docks, food distribution (including the great food convoy), and the aftermath of riots in the capital.

An online subject guide on the General Strike has also been produced. This highlights key collections for researchers studying this turbulent period.

Professor Beverley Skeggs: Honorary Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick We are pleased to announce that Professor Beverley Skeggs, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London has been appointed to an Honorary Professorship in our Department. Professor Skeggs has an outstanding international reputation in the field of cultural and sociological studies and is particularly noted for her groundbreaking work in the fields of class, gender, sexuality and race. Her work is focused on the relationship between the most intimate and the structural through, for example, research that is concerned with how the intimate production of the self illustrates how far capitalist social relations have pervaded our lives.  Her most recent research has explored how new political formations are being shaped through contemporary ethics and specifically how identities based on class are being produced by the new ethical scenarios presented on television.  Professor Skeggs was appointed to a Chair in Sociology at the University of Manchester in 1999 and was Head of Department from 2001-2004.  In 2004, she was appointed Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.  During 2007 she was the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor in Gender Studies at Stockholm University. In 2003 she was elected as an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. 

 

The February 2009 edition of our Information Bulletin, giving updates on our work since the publication of our annual report, is now available here.  It covers developments on our website and our cataloguing, accessioning and outreach activity, including a possibly mouth-watering deposit of records of the Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance.