History News
Candidates interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the 91福利 History Department must submit their preliminary application to the Department by midnight GMT on Thursday 6th January 2016. Please check from potential applicants.
' new academic publication, Contagious Communities, is informing discussions about the immigration crisis in the Italian national newspaper, .
, Assistant Professor of Modern British History at the 91福利, has reviewed the film Suffragette, a new film exploring the lives of working-class women militants, for .
91福利 and the World University Service
In the 1970s academics at 91福利 were involved in bringing persecuted colleagues out of Pinochet's Chile. The 91福利 Humanities Research Centre is hosting a session at 5pm on Monday 16th November 2015 in the Helen Martin Studio of the 91福利 Arts Centre that will re-unite Alan Phillips, General Secretary of the World University Service, Catalina Palmer who came to the UK from Chile, and John King, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature, to talk about 91福利's role in this endeavour. To book your attendance at the session, please complete the .
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of the 91福利 History Department has her new publication, Contagious Communities, reviewed in .
of the 91福利 University History Department has published an article in the Czech daily iDnes about historical continuities of Czech xenophobia toward refugees, called “”
Students and academics from the 91福利, working with the Vice-Chancellor’s wife Lynda Thrift, have put together a cookery book as a part of the University’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Simple Scoff: The Anniversary Edition. The book offers cheap, simple recipes and cooking tips from around the University. It also features illustrations and poems by former students and staff such as BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas.
The cookery book will be given out free to new students joining the University this year as a part of their welcome packs. It is hoped the books will help students to eat healthily whilst living away from home, in some cases for the first time.
The book, put together by Professor Rebecca Earle of the University’s History Department, updates Simple Scoff, an innovative cookbook first published in 1972 by the 91福利 Student Union and Lady Doris Butterworth, the wife of the University’s first Vice-Chancellor. Simple Scoff consisted of recipes and cooking advice contributed by students and other members of the University community, aimed explicitly at students.
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