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Honorary Reader Dr Angela McShane in the news

Dr Angela McShane, Department of History Honorary Reader, features in the Buckingham News in reference to their 100 Ballads website which includes long-forgotten ballads to create a 17th-century pop chart.

Read the full article online here or view the YouTube bulletin here.

Wed 06 Mar 2024, 12:48 | Tags: Media Announcement

My-Parish virtual platform update

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.

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Thu 17 Aug 2023, 11:18 | Tags: Media Research Announcement

Student article on the impact of Black role models and Black creative spaces

Xaymaca Awoyungbo, a final year undergraduate student studying History at Warwick, has written an article for Lacuna magazine. Xaymaca speaks with author Sandra A Agard and explores Britain’s young Black creative networks.

You can read the full piece here.

Wed 17 May 2023, 10:30 | Tags: Media Undergraduate Announcement

Podcast: Latin Poetry in the Caribbean, with Dr John Gilmore

Dr John Gilmore speaks about the light Francis Williams’s one surviving poem sheds on the lesser-known functions of Latin in the British colonies. He shares how Latin poetry became a conduit for arguments about the intellectual capacity of people of African descent and, by extension, about the illegitimacy of the slave trade.

Fri 25 Feb 2022, 15:09 | Tags: Undergraduate, Staff, Research, English, Media

Amphibious Screens: The Sustainable Cultures of Water Seminar Series hosted by The University of Warwick

Warwick is hosting some global online seminars (Jan-April 2022) exploring how the film and TV industries in Miami, Reykjavik, Cornwall and Venice are connected to a watery sense of place, water pollution, water scarcity and water cultures.

 

Fri 21 Jan 2022, 10:31 | Tags: Media Seminars (Internal)


Listen to Prof Stephen Shapiro on BBC Radio 3

Shahidha Bari is joined by Stephen Shapiro and guests to read volume 4 of Foucault's History of Sexuality, which has been translated into English for the first time.

Fri 26 Feb 2021, 09:49 | Tags: Staff, English, Media


Listen to Prof Paulo de Medeiros on Radio 4 - In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests, including our very own Prof Paulo de Medeiros, discuss the works and life of one of Portugal's greatest poets - Fernando Pessoa.

See here for full details.

Thu 03 Dec 2020, 17:57 | Tags: Media, News

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