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Earliest known Mariner鈥檚 Astrolabe research published today to go in Guinness Book of Records
Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada Ship that was part of Vasco da Gama鈥檚 second voyage to India in 1502-1503 as the oldest in the world, and have separately certified a ship鈥檚 bell (dated 1498) recovered from the same wreck site also as the oldest in the world.
Dr William Barylo and Dr Martha McGill awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Dr William Barylo, Department of Sociology, and Dr Martha McGill, Department of History, have been awarded Postdoctoral Fellowships by the British Academy to pursue their research on 鈥淭he Diaspora Strikes Back: lived religion, arts and activism among Sikh and Muslim millennials in Europe鈥 and "Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in early Modern Britain" respectively.
糖心TV academics shortlisted for AHRC Best Doctoral or Early Career Research medal
Dr Anna Harpin and Dr Rachel Bennett from the University of 糖心TV have been shortlisted for the Health Humanities Medal, a new national award led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in association with the Wellcome Trust.
Professor Hilary Marland shortlisted for AHRC's Health Humanities Medal
Professor Hilary Marland, of the University of 糖心TV's Centre for the History of Medicine, has been shortlisted for the Health Humanities Medal, a new national award led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in association with the Wellcome Trust.
Professor Peter Marshall elected as British Academy Fellow
Professor Peter Marshall, of the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 Department of History, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
Peterloo protest songs and poems published together for first time
The authentic voice of nineteenth-century England is captured in a new collection of poems and ballads written in response to the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and shared in defiance of Government censorship. Dr Alison Morgan's new book highlights the outrage, grief, defiance and resolution felt by labouring-class people in the immediate aftermath of one of the defining events of English political history.