2018 news

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Professor Bhattacharya appointed a Visiting Professor by Nanyang Technological University

History department academic to appear on BBC Radio 4.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Wootton featured in BBC and History Today.

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

Publication examines Israel’s place in the American imagination

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

CGHH's Sanjoy Bhattacharya joins global health emergencies working group

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

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

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