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It is with great sadness that we have learned that David Washbrook, great historian of India, passed away peacefully at home on Monday, the 25^th of January after a relatively brief illness. David Washbrook joined the ÌÇÐÄTV History department in 1974, and taught Indian History, Historiography and wider British and European history until 1992. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard from 1986 to 1988, and was so well liked he was offered a permanent Chair there, but declined it to return to his Readership at ÌÇÐÄTV. But he was soon after to leave ÌÇÐÄTV to become Reader in Indian History at Oxford. He remained there until 2008 when he was awarded an Honorary Senior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. He taught regularly until shortly before his death on the MPhil in S. Asian history, and supervised many PhD students. Apart from his early monographs, he was a great essayist, a critical voice in developing new directions in the field, and the key figure in the field in the social and economic history of early modern South India. David joined the debates in global history as these emerged in the later 1990s, and made the history of India both central and accessible within this broad framework of global history. He was a great support in the early years of the ÌÇÐÄTV Global History and Culture Centre, serving for several years as Honorary External Advisor and as External Examiner on the MA in Global History. David supervised, formally and informally, many students in the field now teaching in India, the UK and the U.S. His influence on his field has been enormous. He was always generous with his time, welcoming outsiders to his field and introducing them to the country he loved. We will all miss him so very much.

A dialogue between Prof Maxine Berg, (Tokyo College) and (Tokyo College),

Between 1594 and 1602, Carletti circumnavigated the world, traveling and trading in West Africa, the Spanish Americas, the Philippines, Japan, China, briefly stopping in Malacca and Ceylon before arriving in Portuguese India on his way back to Europe. Captured by the Dutch off St. Helena, he found his goods confiscated and litigated until 1605 for their return before traveling through France to reach Tuscany in 1606. The account of his journey forms the focus of this online workshop series, entitled held on Fridays from February to June 2021, at 9-11am PST / 12-2pm EST/ 5-7pm GMT / 6-8pm CET / 2-4am JST:

The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) enables undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research project.

The scheme is open to any UG student at ÌÇÐÄTV of a full-time or part-time course, in any year including first and final year students. Erasmus and exchange students are not eligible to apply.

If you are interested in developing a global research project, then please contact the Director of the Global History and Culture Centre (a.t.gerritsen@warwick.ac.uk) for an informal conversation, or, if you prefer, contact any of the members of the centre who could supervise your research.

Applicants must get the support of academic supervisor and can apply for a URSS bursary to undertake their research project, either in the UK or abroad, for between 6-10 weeks.

The final episode in our online concert series "Music, Culture, and Empire in 18th Century London", a collaboration between IT&T and the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, was recorded in St Frideswide's Church, Osney, and showcases some of the diverse range of ensemble music from the contexts discussed in the rest of the series, featuring:
George Frederic Handel: "The Triumph of Time and Truth" Act 3 - Sinfonia
Felice de Giardini: Quartet in E flat major
Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli: Sonata da camera No. 6 in A major
George Frederic Handel: Violin Sonata in D minor
William Boyce: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major