Aylmer Lecture 2013

Professor Lyndal Roper speaks on 'Love, Anger and Envy: Emotions and the Early Reformation'

Berthoud Lecture in Modern Literature

Professor Roy Foster, University of Oxford, to give the Berthoud Lecture in Modern Literature

NGOs in the global health landscape

Part of the Global Health Histories Seminar series. Presented in association with the World Health Organisation and supported by the Wellcome Trust

Embroidered Encounters: Travel, Religion, and the Household at Hardwick Hall

Cultural Encounters Lecture Series:'Embroidered Encounters: Travel, Religion, and the Household at Hardwick Hall', Dr Helen Smith, Department of English and Related Literature

History in Global Health Policy: smallpox eradication in South Asia and cardiovascular disease in India

A Global Health Histories seminar on History in Global Health Policy, held at the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part of the Global Health Histories Seminar series. Presented in association with the World Health Organisation and the Wellcome Trust

Encountering Islam: The Qu’ran in the European Enlightenment

Cultural Encounters Lecture Series: 'Encountering Islam: The Qu’ran in the European Enlightenment', Dr Ziad Elmarsafy, Department of English and Related Literature

Departmental Research Seminar

Tomoko Kitigawa(Joseph Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge), 'The Ethics of the Lady Samurai in Warring States Japan’

Departmental Research Seminar

Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College London), ‘'The Best and Fullest Use of Human Power': Seebohm Rowntree, Scientific Management, and the interwar Cocoa Works at York’

Improbable Lives: A One-eyed Soldier, a Dervish, and other Converts in Early Modern Rome

Cultural Encounters Lecture Series: 'Improbable Lives: A One-eyed Soldier, a Dervish, and other Converts in Early Modern Rome', Dr Peter Mazur, Department of History

Departmental Research Seminar

Darren Wagner (University of York), ‘A Delicate Issue: Sensibility and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Medicine and Literature'

Is There A Human Right to Health?

A Yorkshire Philosophical Society evening lecture presented in collaboration with the Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York, and with support from the Wellcome Trust.

Departmental Research Seminar

Rob Dale (Kings College London), "'A great Augean stable washed clean' – Bolshevik Power, Public Opinion and the Aftermath of the September 1924 Leningrad Flood"

Leadership in Global Health Governance

Part of the World Health Organization Global Health Histories Seminar series. Presented in association with the University of York's Department of History and supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Sinan: A Muslim converts in Elizabethan England

Cultural Encounters Lecture Series:'Sinan: A Muslim converts in Elizabethan England', Dr Matthew Dimmock, Sussex University

Departmental Research Seminar

Paul Williams (University of Exeter), ‘Art Spiegelman, J. B. Rund, and 'Adult Comics' in the 1970s’

Departmental Research Seminar

Lisa Peschel (University of York), ‘Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Czechslovakia: their Testimony on the Cultural Life of the Terezin Ghetto’

From Under the Ground to on the Air

Dr Carenza Lewis (University of Cambridge) 'From Under the Ground to on the Air'

Travellers' Tales

Cultural Encounters Lecture Series: 'Travellers' Tales' Dr Abigail Shinn, Department of English and Related Literature,

Departmental Research Seminar

Jon Wilson (Kings College London),‘Rethinking the Conquest of India’

Webinar: Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909

York Centre for the Americas Webinar featuring Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane

Outbreak of Plague in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Medico-political Perspectives

An evening lecture focusing on plague outbreaks in twentieth century India

Departmental Research Seminar

Monica Saveedra (University of York), 'Rice Fields, Mosquitoes and Shakes: Malaria Stories in Portugal’

Antimicrobial Resistance: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

WHO Regional Office for Europe Global Health Histories Seminar 1

Departmental Research Seminar

Thomas Le Roux (CNRS, Paris),‘Science, Politics and Industrial Pollution, France 1750-1850’

York 800 Years Ago: The King, The Charter and The City

York 800 Years Ago: the King, the Charter and the City presented by Dr Sarah Rees Jones of the Department of History

Departmental Research Seminar

Alistair Malcolm (University of Limerick),‘Culture and Politics in Golden-Age Spain: Attitudes and Assumptions of a Grandee Elite’

Yorkshire Country House Partnership Lecture

'The Big House has much to learn...But it also has much to give' Elizabeth Bowen

York 600 Years Ago: St. Richard, the Devout Widow and the Feast of Corpus Christi

York 600 Years Ago: St. Richard, the Devout Widow and the Feast of Corpus Christi presented by Dr Jeremy Goldberg of the Department of History

Alltagsgeschichte: Writing the History of Modernity

Part of the Centre for Modern Studies' 'Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian' series, with speaker Holger Nehring (Sheffield)

York Minster in 1212

York Minster in 1212 presented by Professor Christopher Norton, Centre for Medieval Studies

Departmental Research Seminar

Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester, 'Creole Villains and Lying Heroes: Contesting Imperial Masculinity in the Age of Abolition'

York 400 Years Ago: Reformation, Religious Change and Social Stress?

‘York 400 Years Ago: Reformation, Religious Change and Social Stress?', Professor Bill Sheils, from the Department of History, will look at the city’s history during a period identified as one of crisis for English towns.

York 200 Years Ago: Tourism, Archaeology and the Making of Modern York

Dr Ann-Marie Akehurst, from the Department of History of Art, will present a lecture on ‘York 200 Years Ago: Tourism, Archaeology and the Making of Modern York’.

Departmental Research Seminar

Andrew Scull, University of California, San Diego, 'A Psychiatric Revolution: American Psychiatry, 1940-2012'

York Today: A City for Today and Tomorrow?

Dr Rowland Atkinson from the Centre for Urban Research (CURB) at the Department of Sociology, will look at the York of the recent past and its social life today.

Departmental Research Seminar

Anna Bocking-Welch, University of York, 'The Many Faces of Philanthropy: Britain and the United Nations Freedom from Hunger Campaign'

100 Years of Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland

A Yorkshire Philosophical Society evening lecture presented in collaboration with the Centre of Global Health Histories, University of York, and with support from the Wellcome Trust.

Yellow Fever

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Ageing and digital communication

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Public Health Innovations

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Positive Non-Interventionism: Colonial Governance in Hong Kong, 1960-1984

One day workshop brings together scholars from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and the UK

Exploring York's Changing Cityscape

Three walking tours of York's historic centre, guided by IPUP researchers

Financial Incentives in Health

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Annual Aylmer Lecture: People Who Believe in Nothing

Professor Edward Muir of Northwestern University will deliver the 9th Annual Aylmer Lecture

Public-Private Partnerships in Health

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Patient Safety

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Chlamydia

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Departmental Research Seminar

Brian Balmer (University College, London), 'How to Make Secrets: Pesticides, Nerve Gas and Knowledge Transfer in the Cold War'

Breast-milk Substitutes

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories seminar series

Departmental Research Seminar

Liam Riordan (University of Maine), 'Loyalist Opposition to the American Revolution: Comparative Colonialism and the British Atlantic'

Centre for the Americas Inaugural Lecture

Professor Philip D. Morgan, 'A Tale of Two Hamiltons: North American-Caribbean Crossings in the Eighteenth Century'

York Medieval Seminar

Professor Guy Halsall, Changing Minds Around 600

Departmental Research Seminar

Katharina Reinholt (Universitat de Saarlandes), 'Passion and Conflict: Persecution, Martyrdom and Marriage in Early Modern Anabaptism'

Departmental Research Seminar

Alex Goodall (University of York), 'Juggling with Machetes: The US Occupation of Nicaragua, 1927-1933'

Departmental Research Seminar

Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield), 'The Hospital Crisis in Post-war Britain and France, 1918-1928'

The York Jewish History Trail

York history intern students launch new walking tour of the city

Departmental Research Seminar

Carl G. Scott (Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota), 'African Footballers in Sweden: Race, Immigration, and Integration in the Age of Globalization'

Departmental Research Seminar

Daniel de Groff (Queen Mary, University of London), 'The Making of a French Regionalist: Jean Baffier (1851-1920)'

Translating Freedom

Debating multidirectional memory with Professor Michael Rothberg

Poverty and Progress? Rowntree's York, 1899-2001

Find out more about the history of poverty and social mobility in York

Departmental Research Seminar

Chris Prior (University College, Dublin), 'Standing in Defiance of Nature?: Imperial Change in British West Africa, 1900-1939'

Postgraduate Open Day

Come and find out more about postgraduate study at York

Torture as a Challenge to the Health Professions and to WHO

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series

Departmental Research Seminar

Vanessa Heggie (University of Cambridge), 'Comparative Histories: Sport and Medicine in the Long Twentieth Century'

Environmental Law

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series

Departmental Research Seminar

Graeme Murdock (Trinity College, Dublin), 'Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? Living With Heretics in Early Modern Savoy'

Archaeology and the Public Realm

Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past

Departmental Research Seminar

Laura Stewart (Birkbeck College), 'Contesting the Constitution: The Debate over Parliamentary Reform in Early Seventeenth-Century Scotland'

Departmental Research Seminar

David Edgerton (Imperial College), 'An Empire of Machines: Britain in the Second World War'

Departmental Research Seminar

Jeremy Goldberg (University of York), 'What Londoners Really Thought about Richard II: The Case of John Rykener "the Transvestite" Male Prostitute'

Asbestos Pollution

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series

Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen

We are delighted to announce that bestselling author and historian Alison Weir is giving a public lecture on Elizabeth I

Departmental Research Seminar

Daniel Smail (Harvard University), 'Goods and Debts in the Medieval Mediterranean'

Departmental Research Seminar

Mike Savage (Department of Sociology), 'Social Change in Post-War Britain: Biographical Accounts from the 1958 National Child Development Study'

Graduate Conference

Sixth Annual Postgraduate Conference

Environmental Health in BRIC

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series

University Open Day

Information for prospective students attending our October open day

Food Security

University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series

Conspiracies Conference

Conspiracies, both real and imagined, is the subject of this year's York Cultural History Conference.

Middle Passages: Exploring the Global History of the Slave Trade

Department hosts a week-long conference for teachers from the UK, Ghana and the USA whose interests include the history of slavery.

Conquest and Expansionism Conference

History research students from around the UK and beyond gather at York to discuss the themes of conquest and expansion at this the fifth annual postgraduate conference. Papers span time and place.

History Open Day

Discover what York History is, who we are, what we do and how we might fit you. We historians are independent-minded so we've built a day that you create for yourself: push open doors, talk to staff and students in their habitats, and attend events that excite you.

Development and Empire, 1929-1962

A two-day conference will bring together scholars based in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to share knowledge and ideas about British aid-assisted colonial development in the mid-twentieth-century. The conference is supported by the department and organised by its British Empire research cluster.

Natural Disasters in Social Theory and South Asian Practice

In the recent past India has become a net donor of humanitarian aid, yet for a century it has been a magnet for cyclones, earthquakes, floods, famines and droughts. Professor Paul Greenough will explore this history in a public lecture later this month.

Communicating the Past on Radio: The Impact of 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'

Andrew Caspari, who as Head of Speech Radio and Interactive masterminded the BBC Radio 4 series 'A History of the World in 100 Objects', will talk about how to communicate the past on radio.

University Sunday

University Sunday will celebrate the range of activities undertaken by history students participating in the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past's intern programme.

Conversion Narratives in the Early Modern World

A three-day conference will bring together scholars from all over the world to discuss the politics and poetics of conversion in the early modern period.

Caribbean Research Seminar in the North

The Department is pleased to host the next meeting of the Caribbean Research Seminar in the North. Speakers will look at the sugar industry and the politics of identity in the recent past.

Annual Aylmer Lecture: Revolutionary Napoleon

Professor William Doyle will deliver the 8th Annual Aylmer Lecture on "Revolutionary Napoleon" to the History Department.

The Czech Tramping Movement: Recreation and Resistance in the Woods of Bohemia

Dr James Symonds (University of York) talks to the weekly departmental research seminar about the Czech tramping movement which took off shortly after the First World War. Trekking and wild camping in the Bohemian woods, a popular leisure activity with the young, was disliked by successive state authorities who tried to regulate and stop it.

The Fourth Yorkshire Country House Partnership Seminar

The Department hosts the fourth meeting of the Yorkshire Country House Partnership's two-day seminar which will consider recent developments in policies, issues and research that affect the country house.

Televisualizing the Past: Simon Schama and 'A History of Britain' Ten Years On

Ten years on the 'Televisualizing the Past' conference reflects on the production, distribution and reception of the BBC's landmark history series, Simon Schama's 'A History of Britain'.

Who Do We Think We Were?

Independent producer Alex Graham of Who Do You Think We Are? to talk about the past, present and future of tv history documentary.

Can we eradicate malaria? Lessons from an earlier campaign

Professor Randall Packard asks whether we can eradicate malaria in the light of previous attempts to do so.

Troubling Memories: Nineteenth-Century Histories of the Slave Trade and Slavery

Professor Catherine Hall (UCL) reflects on the "troubled histories" written by nineteenth-century historians of slavery and the slave trade when she delivers the Royal Historical Society lecture.

News from Africa: Reporting Conversion in Renaissance Italy

The AHRC-funded Conversion Narratives project launches with a lecture on "News from Africa: Reporting Conversion in Renaissance Itlay" from Professor Kate Lowe (Queen Mary, University of London).

York Postgraduate Conference

Our second year research students present papers about their projects.

Hello and goodbye!

Department welcomes seven new members of faculty and thanks outgoing staff.

Honorary degree for Professor Dame Jinty Nelson

Professor Dame Jinty Nelson's remarks to this year's graduands at the degree ceremony on Friday 16 July.

Material Culture in History

The theme of the Fourth Annual Conference of the York History Research Society this year is 'Material Culture in History.'

Historia Sacra: Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins

International symposium