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2018 news

2018 news

21 January 2019

A workshop marks the beginning of a 6-month collaborative project with the University of Ghana on small-scale gold mining

17 December 2018

Henrice Altink has been awarded a grant for a multidisciplinary project on gold mining in Ghana.

30 November 2018

A Department of History academic was one of the organisers of a workshop on the links between blood and radical politics held at the queer cooperative club Wharf Chamber in Leeds on Tuesday 27 November.

27 November 2018

Sanjoy Bhattacharya will continue as an academic advisor for a further three years.

9 November 2018

A report on Namrata Ganneri's recent visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan

24 October 2018

24 October, World Polio Day, celebrates progress against the disease

17 October 2018

York history professor has played a key role in organising a conference that explores the 'voice of the people' through the centuries.

27 September 2018

The Department of History is seeking a research associate to work with Professor Henrice Altink, Dr Sabine Clarke and Dr Helen Cowie on a NERC/AHRC-funded project on the Colombian paramos

25 September 2018

The Department of History has placed 7th in the latest Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.

14 September 2018

Dr Sabine Clarke, senior lecturer in modern history, has published the first account of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies.

10 September 2018

York historian will examine the complex relationship between the British Empire and the American Pacific Coast.

4 September 2018

York’s MA in Medical History and Humanities receives Wellcome Trust Award

28 August 2018

Sarah Hartley awarded fellowship to work at the WHO Regional Office for Europe

22 August 2018

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme opportunities, for 2018/19, is now open to expressions of interest.

21 August 2018

Over the past year CGHH’s Sanjoy Bhattacharya has been involved in a new Science Museum exhibition about the Sun.

10 August 2018

Professor David Moon has joined Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes.

8 August 2018

Listen to the story of the launch of the UK’s Welfare State, in a conversation with Dr Chris Renwick.

3 August 2018

David Moon will spend a year in Kazakhstan, teaching various courses in Russian, Eurasian, and transnational history.

2 August 2018

Between 2 and 4 September, a conference on Holocaust memory in the cold war will be hosted in Berrick Saul building.

25 July 2018

York academic will be part of the leadership team for a new White Rose network.

24 July 2018

Read more about the newest publications in the Global Health Histories series

18 July 2018

Dr John Cooper spoke about the growth of diversity on period television dramas and his experience as a historical consultant.

18 July 2018

A York professor has brought together historians, that specialise in history and literature, to analyse conceptual revolution of the early modern period.

18 July 2018

York Research Fellow organised a conference that aimed to rethink religious French wars via transnational approaches.

13 July 2018

The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme is now open to expressions of interest.

9 July 2018

Read a report and access the recording from the 107th Global Health Histories seminar on vaccine hesitancy

4 July 2018

Dr Henrice Altink attended the first workshop from the 'Historical and epidemiological transitions in urban Caribbean foodscapes' project.

29 June 2018

History 3rd year PhD researcher has been awarded HRC Doctoral Fellowship.

25 June 2018

Two members of the Department of History, PhD candidate Ding Yiyun and Dr Jon Howlett, gave papers in a special panel titled 'Women in China: past and present' at the June 2018 meeting of the York Asia Research Network (YARN). They were joined by Sanna Eriksson from the Centre for Applied Human Rights.

20 June 2018

Dr Henrice Altink presents her research at the 50th Annual ACH Conference.

11 June 2018

A University of York History lecturer has had a book published which examines medieval crusaders and their privileges.

6 June 2018

Prof. Simon Ditchfield and Dr Stefan Bauer co-hosted the sell-out conference: 'Burckhardt at 200: the "Civilisation of the Italian Renaissance” reconsidered’ at the headquarters of the British Academy in London on 31 May-1 June 2018.

5 June 2018

David Moon delivers keynote lecture at Canadian History and Environmental Symposium.

1 June 2018

Dr Rachel Delman will join the department in May 2019 as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow.

25 May 2018

We are pleased to announce that Dr Boyd Brogan will be joining the Department in September on a two-year fellowship funded by the Centre for Future Health.

14 May 2018

Professor Bhattacharya appointed a Visiting Professor by Nanyang Technological University

11 May 2018

History department academic to appear on BBC Radio 4.

9 May 2018

We are pleased to announce that the Department of History has received an Athena SWAN Bronze award.

2 May 2018

York academic to serve on the society's governing council.

1 May 2018

Academics and activists from York and beyond came together for a day full of workshops and talks.

1 May 2018

The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme is now open to expressions of interest.

30 April 2018

A report on Dr Lakshmi C. Somatunga’s official visit to the University of York for Global Health Histories seminar 104.

27 April 2018

A report on Sanjoy Bhattacharya’s attendance at a recent WHO Expert Committee meeting

27 April 2018

Two historians have made a huge contribution to a new book about Britain's overseas markets.

27 April 2018

History undergraduate Eleanor Brown invited to awards final in Canary Wharf on 20 April 2018.

23 April 2018

A Gerda Henkel Stiftung research grant for 2018/19 has been awarded to medieval historian, Dr Mary Garrison.

23 April 2018

A report by Dr Suranga Dolamulla, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Health Histories

19 April 2018

David Wootton featured in BBC and History Today.

19 April 2018

Dr Gerard McCann invited to Washington D.C. to give an expert briefing on ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’s Indian diaspora’.

9 April 2018

Publication examines Israel’s place in the American imagination

5 April 2018

Apply for a funded PhD at the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities on National and global networks in electronic music, 1945-1967.

28 March 2018

Dr Namrata R Ganneri has joined the Centre for Global Health Histories (CGHH).

20 February 2018

Read Alexander Medcalf’s latest article in the Journal of Global History

13 February 2018

Public Lecture and Roundtable featuring CGHH Director to be held at Nanyang Technological University

12 February 2018

Read Margaret Jones' latest co-authored article in Asian Review of World Histories.

12 February 2018

Watch the special forum on the production and design of period dramas.

6 February 2018

This year it is 100 years since the Representation of the People Act 1918 - the act which allowed some women in the UK the right to vote.

29 January 2018

CGHH's Sanjoy Bhattacharya joins global health emergencies working group

12 January 2018

A research team from the Department of History has been awarded nearly £100k in funding linked to the ‘Pilgrimage and England’s Cathedrals’ project.

12 January 2018

Professor Bhattacharya contributes a chapter to the upcoming volume A Global History of Medicine.

11 January 2018

Elena Grana has been awarded the 2017 Oliver Sheldon Memorial Trust History Prize

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