Department of Economics Professor Mark Harrison explains why we need economic historians and why the USSR reminded him of Tolkien’s Mordor.

The research of David Anderson, Professor of African History at the University of Warwick, has played a crucial role in the decision of the British government, announced today, to pay compensation to 5,200 victims of torture and abuse in colonial Kenya.

Classics and Ancient History Assistant Professor Michael Scott takes a closer look at 4th century BC Boiotia: What was Boiotia you may well ask? It was the lush and fertile central area of mainland Greece, stuck between Attica (the territory of Athens) on the one hand and the territory of Thessaly to the north...

A blog post from Department of Economics Professor Mark Harrison:

On 28 May the Gaidar Foundation published excerpts from an essay competition among Russian school students, in which they write about their impressions and the family histories that have been passed down to them...

The UK escaped a liquidity trap in the 1930s and enjoyed a strong economic recovery. This column by Economics Professor Nicholas Crafts argues that what drove this recovery was ‘unconventional’ monetary policy implemented not by the Bank of England but by the Treasury. Thus, Neville Chamberlain was an early proponent of ‘Abenomics’. This raises the question: is inflation targeting by an independent central bank appropriate at a time of very low nominal-interest rates?