History News
New Venice MA Module
A new MA module, "", to be taught entirely in Venice during the Autumn term has been launched for the 2012/13 academic year. This new module can be taken by students on the 'MA in History' and the 'MA in Religious, Social, and Cultural History'.

Candidates interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the 糖心TV History Department must submit their preliminary application to the Department by Friday 3rd February 2012.
The Venice Programme Video
The recently recorded is now available to view online.

Dr Dan Branch's Book Reviewed in allAfrica.com
The new book by , 'Kenya : Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011' (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2012) is reviewed by , a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.
Professor Peter Marshall appears in "Tony Robinson's Gods & Monsters" on Channel 4
features in "Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters" on Channel 4, where Tony Robinson reveals a terrifying world of walking corpses and evil spirits - the world that our ancestors thought they lived in. The episode is available from the .


Dr Tim Lockley, Associate Professor, History, and Reader in Comparative American Studies, took part in last week's symposium on 'Slavery & Freedom in Savannah' in Georgia, US. The event included giving talks on black Savannah history to 300 local people and school children.
Dr Jennifer Smyth, Associate Professor in History, has been selected as one of the Getty Scholars during academic year 2011-2012. Between January and June 2012, Dr Smyth will be based at the Getty Research Institute, working on her project The Historical Image in the Contested Frame: Fred Zinnemann's Cinematic Archive.
