University of York History Department

News & events from History at York. We are committed to sharing knowledge and expertise with future generations of historians and communities beyond academia.

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Join us next week for the History Research Seminar at @YorkHistoryDept. @claudiajsoares will share her research on empire, emotions, and welfare, 1860-1900. 4 Dec, 5:30 -7:00 PM. All welcome!
For more info: https://t.co/9TCwwfH11q

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Professor Helen Cowie's book, Animals in World History is out now with @routledgebooks. If you're interested in panda diplomacy, celebrity kakapos or cocaine hippos, you can find out more here: https://t.co/mqirOWGjGC. Some chapters available Open Access.

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Join us next week for the History Research Seminar
@YorkHistoryDept, Beth Wilson, BA Postdoctoral Fellow at @UniofOxford, will be talking about ‘Slavery, Emotions and Gender in the US South’. 20 November 2024, 5:30 -7:00 PM. All welcome! For more details: https://t.co/voizYVPGeB

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There are two fully-funded PhD opportunities with the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York, with supervisors in the History Department @AnthropoceneBio @kewgardens @archivemole
Deadline: 2nd February 2025. See the VLE for details and LCAB's recruitment website.

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"New Open Access Article - 'Chronic challenges: picturing chronic disease by the World Health Organization'. Co-authored by the Department's own @DrMedcalf and Prof Karl Atkin (Sociology), the article in Medical Humanities is available to view/download: https://t.co/jcMI9f38qO

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Dr Emma Marshall was elected to the executive committee of the Social History Society for a term of three years. She's looking forward to working with a team of eminent historians to further the study and teaching of social history.

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.@EskandarSadeghi has a new article exploring the first translations and reception of Antonio Gramsci into Persian published in South Atlantic Quarterly: https://t.co/0kde1Ez5NY

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@EskandarSadeghi has a new article exploring the first translations and reception of Antonio Gramsci into Persian published in South Atlantic Quarterly: https://t.co/0kde1Ez5NY

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.@EskandarSadeghi Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East, has published a new article with New Left Review on Iran’s presidential election and its significance: https://t.co/stF1d7u5hZ

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and vulnerabilities of the Pahlavi state in the decades leading up to the Iranian Revolution of 1979

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. @EskandarSadeghi Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East, has edited and introduced a new and expanded edition of Fred Halliday's classic "Iran: Dictatorship and Development" originally published in 1979. Just out today: https://t.co/5bu9j0TTjr

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Drawing on Halliday's papers, interviews, and subsequent writings, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi intervenes into recent debates around the historiography of the Pahlavi state and makes the case for the abiding relevance of Halliday's analyses and insights to the understanding of the history

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‘Dr Will Tullett (@WillTullett), Lecturer in Early Modern History, has just had a chapter published on teaching history using the senses in the book ‘Innovations in Teaching History’, available open access here: https://t.co/L7XTBH2Tk5’

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Professor Helen Cowie recently published an article in the British Journal for the History of Science. If you're interested in snakes, goats or nineteenth-century animal welfare, you can read it open access here: https://t.co/ElmGmtOsuQ

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Well done
@BPCS_China
on a fantastic annual conference! Over 50 speakers & 2 keynotes, Prof Jiang Jiehong + Assoc Prof Jennifer Altehenger, came together over 2 days to explore ‘Braving the Tides: Chinese Individuals Navigating Social Changes’.

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@ArtHistoryYork @bacs_china @socialhistsoc A very successful event! Massive thanks to everyone who helped organise & support it @bacs_china, @socialhistsoc, @ArtHistoryYork

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Join us for the next IPUP seminar on 8th May, a collaboration with @CHPPC_IHR. York History MA students will be reflecting on their experiences of Doing Public History in York.
When: 5.30pm-7pm
Where: V/N/123 and online -register to attend online
https://t.co/fsvXS86tHS

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Join the next IPUP seminar on 2 May with Michael Lambert on 'Sorry somehow? Narrating accountability, responsibility and the complicity of the British state for historic forced adoption' at 6-7.30 in BS/005 or online - register to attend online
https://t.co/8iD6oTjLzm

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History at York placed top 100 in the world according to the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2024)

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Thinking of completing an MA in History at York? We have a range of scholarships available for MA students closing on 3 May 2024. Find out more here: https://t.co/4IxgbSkqKH