Departmental news

Dr Anna Hájková of the Warwick University History Department has published an article in the Czech daily iDnes about historical continuities of Czech xenophobia toward refugees, called “Main thing they don’t stay here.”

A PBS documentary that Dr J E Smyth of the Warwick University History Department both worked on and appeared in with Hector Galan has won the Imagen Award 2015 for best documentary in Los Angeles.

The Imagen Awards aims to recognize and reward positive portrayals of Latinos in all forms of media, as well as to encourage and recognize the achievements of Latinos in the entertainment and communications industries. The Imagen Foundation works to create, promote, and enhance opportunities for all Latinos in front of and behind the camera and throughout the entertainment industry, and serve as a liaison between the industry and the Latino community by providing access, education and resources.

Professor David Anderson is one of the guests on the Radiolab podcast, Mau Mau.

 
This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out of the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known, offering a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.

Just down the road from a pub in rural Hanslope Park, England is a massive building — the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known. This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out and offered a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.

When professor Caroline Elkins came across a stray document left by the British colonial government in Nairobi, Kenya, she opened the door to a new reckoning with the history of one of Britain's colonial crown jewels, and the fearsome group of rebels known as the Mau Mau. We talk to historians, archivists, journalists and send our producer Jamie York to visit the Mau Mau. As the new history of Kenya is concealed and revealed, document by document, we wonder what else lies in wait among the miles of records hidden away in Hanslope Park.

Produced by Matt Kielty with reporting from Jamie York, with guests David Anderson, Martyn Day, Caroline Elkins, Katie Engelhart, and Gitu wa Kahengeri.

Second-year History and Politics undergraduate student Anna Wilson has her article Sainsbury’s Christmas ad not as Great as First Thought published in the Warwick University student-run newspaper The Boar.

 
In the cover story for the March 2015 edition of History Today, Warwick University History Department PhD student Serena Dyer finds surprising parallels between shopping in the Georgian period and modern consumerism.

For more details, please see http://www.historytoday.com/magazine.

Dr J E Smyth joins former newspaper editor and writer Eve Pollard in telling Matthew Parris on Radio 4 why Nora Ephron, the screenwriter of hit films such as 'When Harry Met Sally', 'Heartburn', and 'Sleepless in Seattle', is a Great Life.

The episode is currently available to listen to online.

On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dr Anna Hájková's essay 'How should we remember Auschwitz?' has been published in openDemocracy.

In an exciting new venture, Professor Chris Read, Dr Tim Lockley and Dr Sarah Richardson have been appointed as editors of the Modern History Review. The magazine is published by Philip Allan for Hodder Education and is aimed at sixth-form students helping them to learn more, gain deeper subject knowledge and the skills to study independently, to get the grade they're really looking for. The Warwick team view this as an opportunity to bring current cutting-edge research directly to A level students in an accessible format. The first issue has just been published and has articles on the origins of the First World War, on the Cold War and on Gladstone and Disraeli.

An article by Dr Benjamin Smith, Arresting Mexican kingpin 'el Chapo' hardly means the drug war is over, has been published in The Guardian on Monday 24th February 2014.

For the full article, please see http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/24/el-chapo-arrest-mexico-most-wanted-drug-kingpin-end-era.

As part of a weekly series in HistoryExtra.com, the official website of BBC History magazine, Professor Rebecca Earle, cultural historian of Spanish America, picks out her favourite historical places to visit.

Please read the full article at http://www.historyextra.com/feature/my-favourite-historical-places-professor-rebecca-earle.