Deana Heath, Professor of Indian and Colonial History at the University of Liverpool, along with Jinee Lokaneeta from Drew University, have published a new book titled Policing and Violence in India. The book highlights the pressing need for police reform in India.
Dr Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery at the University of Liverpool, was recently awarded two fellowships to facilitate projects looking into the slave trade in the United States. Dr Sandy discusses the awards and the impact the funds will have on her work.
Scholars, activists, and Romani survivors met in Prague on 20-21 September for a conference exploring the legacies of the genocide of Roma during World War II through the lens of family histories.
The School of Histories Languages and Cultures are delighted to announce that Professor Marie-Jeanne Rossignol will be visiting Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre and History Department between 20th and 24th November 2017.
The University of Liverpool’s School of Histories, Languages & Cultures invites expressions of interest for the 2019 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships scheme.
The Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS) are delighted to win the Research Impact of the Year award at the University of Liverpool’s Staff Awards 2018.
The department of History invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for two studentships starting in October 2019.
We are delighted to announce that the University of Liverpool will join the Universities Studying Slavery organisation (USS).
Applications are now open for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
This week marked the start of the £1M AHRC-funded collaborative project on Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic, homed in the Department of History and led by Mark Towsey, Professor in the History of the Book and Director of Liverpool's Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre.
Are you interested in a career in archives and records management? Are you worried about having adequate experience to apply for a Masters programme?
As part of BBC Radio 3’s New Thinking podcast series, Dr William Ashworth from the Department of History discusses new lines of thinking on the Industrial Revolution – ‘New Thinking: It all begins here? Understanding the Industrial Revolution’.
Chloé Duteil is an AHRC-funded PhD student in History researching coastal environments in Brittany and Wales (University of Liverpool and Lancaster University). Susannah Copson gained a BA in History (First Class) here at the University of Liverpool, and has just completed a LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex. She is now a Legal Research Intern at Open Society Justice Initiative.
Dr Michael Robinson is an Early Career Researcher based at the University of Liverpool. He is currently funded by the Leverhulme Trust on a three-year project entitled ‘Disability, Welfare and Ageing: First World War Veterans of the British Empire’ (ID/Ref: ECF-2019-480).
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A new exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (Exeter) investigates aspects of Devon and Exeter’s relationship with the transatlantic slave trade that are all around us, but for some remain ‘hidden in plain sight.’
Maintaining momentum, holding leaders to account and building alliances 4th and 5th April 2022 (online). Keynote address: Mike Gatehouse.
We are celebrating Earth Month with an introduction to the School's Sustainability Lead; Dr Chris Pearson.
The winners of the ARA Excellence Awards were announced at the Gala Dinner of the Archives and Records Association Conference in Chester on the evening of Thursday 1st September.