News 2013
WRoCAH Funding
Posted on Friday 20 December 2013
White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities will be awarding 66 studentships to eligible candidates starting PhDs at the universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield in October 2014
David Wootton to deliver Carlyle Lectures 2014
Posted on Friday 20 December 2013
David Wootton to deliver Carlyle Lectures 2014 at the University of Oxford
Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era
Posted on Thursday 19 December 2013
New book from Alex Goodall examines the history of countersubversion in the United States
York, the Making of a City, 1068-1350
Posted on Wednesday 11 December 2013
Sarah Rees Jones' new publication is first book-length study of York between 1068 and 1350
The Otherworld Chronicles
Posted on Wednesday 27 November 2013
Former History student James Jarvis' books published
The Four Crowned Martyrs
Posted on Tuesday 5 November 2013
Dr Laura Crombie receives Santander International Connections award towards a project on the craft guilds of late medieval Ghent
Postgraduate Open Day
Posted on Friday 25 October 2013
Postgraduate open afternoon for History and associated centres
Within the Walls
Posted on Wednesday 9 October 2013
AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral research project, involving the University of York's Archaeology and History departments, and the City of York Council, gets underway
Russian Environmental History
Posted on Monday 7 October 2013
Major Russian Environmental History project website goes live
In Our Time: Pascal
Posted on Tuesday 1 October 2013
Professor David Wootton discusses French polymath Blaise Pascal on BBC Radio 4
St. Stephen's Chapel
Posted on Wednesday 25 September 2013
Major new collaboration with the Palace of Westminster on AHRC-funded project
Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France
Posted on Tuesday 24 September 2013
Craig Taylor's new publication examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453)
Contact Hours for History Students at York Announcement
Posted on Wednesday 7 August 2013
Contact Hours for History Students will be increasing by 17 per cent from October 2014
Teaching and Supervising Awards
Posted on Friday 5 July 2013
Awards for the Department of History's excellence
50th Anniversary MA Bursaries
Posted on Tuesday 2 July 2013
Department of History to award three 'Fiftieth Anniversary MA Bursaries' in 2013-14.
RHS Centenary Fellowship
Posted on Tuesday 18 June 2013
History PhD student Emilie Murphy wins RHS Centenary Fellowship
Tuberculosis: A Short History
Posted on Monday 10 June 2013
Details of a new exhibition and publication by the Centre for Global Health Histories
Christians and Jews in Angevin England: The York Massacre of 1190, Narratives and Contexts
Posted on Wednesday 24 April 2013
New publication from Sarah Rees-Jones and Sethina Watson
Reassessing 1970s Britain
Posted on Saturday 13 April 2013
New publication from Lawrence Black
Exploring Russia’s Environmental History and Natural Resources
Posted on Friday 12 April 2013
Leverhulme Trust awards International Network Grant for £123,000 for a project led by Professor David Moon
Barocci: Decorum and Originality
Posted on Wednesday 10 April 2013
Dr Simon Ditchfield of the Department of History in discussion at the National Gallery
BBC Countryfile: Rushton Triangular Lodge
Posted on Wednesday 10 April 2013
History PhD student, Emilie Murphy, on BBC1’s Countryfile to share the findings of her research at the mysterious Rushton Triangular Lodge, Northamptonshire
British Academy awards research fellowship to Nicholas Guyatt
Posted on Sunday 24 March 2013
The Scale of Beings: Race, Colonization and the Prehistory of 'Separate but Equal'
The Plough That Broke the Steppes
Posted on Friday 22 March 2013
David Moon publishes the first environmental history of Russia's Steppes
Black Market Britain, 1935-1955
Posted on Friday 22 March 2013
Mark Roodhouse's book 'Black Market Britain' published
Marie Curie Fellowship
Posted on Tuesday 12 February 2013
Department to welcome winner of prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship
William Bynum Prize
Posted on Wednesday 6 February 2013
Details of a prestigious, international essay competition for doctoral students and early career post-doctoral researchers
American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909
Posted on Tuesday 5 February 2013
Listen to an audio recording of a webinar delivered by Dr. Michael Cullinane at the York Centre for the Americas
Global Health Histories Seminars: 2013’s Topics Unveiled
Posted on Tuesday 5 February 2013
The popular Global Health Histories seminar series returns in 2013 with its mission to show how understanding the history of health can help the global public health community respond to the challenges of today
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrations
Posted on Thursday 31 January 2013
The Department of History is to host a public lecture series given by distinguished academics who have been associated with the Department to celebrates its fiftieth birthday.
Alcuin: The Essay, BBC Radio 3
Posted on Friday 25 January 2013
Dr Mary Garrison features on Radio 3's Anglo-Saxon Portraits telling the story of one of York's most influential sons, Alcuin, on Monday 28th January at 10.45pm.
The Mystery of the Escrick Ring
Posted on Friday 11 January 2013
Leading experts to gather in York to try and solve the mysteries of a unique sapphire ring.