Departmental Research Seminar
Wednesday
7
December
2011
Chris Prior (University College, Dublin), 'Standing in Defiance of Nature?: Imperial Change in British West Africa, 1900-1939'
Departmental Research Seminar
Thursday
1
December
2011
Vanessa Heggie (University of Cambridge), 'Comparative Histories: Sport and Medicine in the Long Twentieth Century'
Environmental Law
Wednesday
30
November
2011
University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series
Departmental Research Seminar
Thursday
24
November
2011
Graeme Murdock (Trinity College, Dublin), 'Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? Living With Heretics in Early Modern Savoy'
Departmental Research Seminar
Thursday
17
November
2011
Laura Stewart (Birkbeck College), 'Contesting the Constitution: The Debate over Parliamentary Reform in Early Seventeenth-Century Scotland'
Departmental Research Seminar
Thursday
10
November
2011
David Edgerton (Imperial College), 'An Empire of Machines: Britain in the Second World War'
Departmental Research Seminar
Thursday
3
November
2011
Jeremy Goldberg (University of York), 'What Londoners Really Thought about Richard II: The Case of John Rykener "the Transvestite" Male Prostitute'
Asbestos Pollution
Wednesday
2
November
2011
University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
Thursday
27
October
2011
We are delighted to announce that bestselling author and historian Alison Weir is giving a public lecture on Elizabeth I
Departmental Research Seminar
Thursday
20
October
2011
Mike Savage (Department of Sociology), 'Social Change in Post-War Britain: Biographical Accounts from the 1958 National Child Development Study'
Environmental Health in BRIC
Wednesday
12
October
2011
University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series
University Open Day
Saturday
1
October
2011
Information for prospective students attending our October open day
Food Security
Wednesday
28
September
2011
University of York, Wellcome Trust and World Health Organisation's Global Health Histories Seminar Series
Conspiracies Conference
Thursday
8
September
2011
Conspiracies, both real and imagined, is the subject of this year's York Cultural History Conference.
Conquest and Expansionism Conference
Friday
8
July
2011
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
Wednesday
6
July
2011
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
Friday
1
July
2011
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
Thursday
30
June
2011
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.
University Sunday
Sunday
26
June
2011
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.
Caribbean Research Seminar in the North
Friday
20
May
2011
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.
The Czech Tramping Movement: Recreation and Resistance in the Woods of Bohemia
Thursday
10
March
2011
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
Friday
25
February
2011
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.
