History Department

✨Congratulations to our December 2022 Graduates✨ We hope you have a wonderful day and look forward to seeing you at the reception in the Aroma Room after your ceremony!

Congratulations to our 2022 History summer graduates!🎓🎉 What a beautiful day it was (if a little hot 🌞). You are all brilliant and we are so impressed with your hard work and resilience. Take care and keep in touch!

Superheroes, comic books and the untold story of Captain Africa. Research by DASA PhD student @TessaPijnaker features on @News24 Check it out here: news24.com/channel/arts/t…

Conditions to Cure? Histories of Medicalization, Psychologisation, and Intergenerational Trauma in the LGBTQIA+ Community 🗓️ 8-9 June 2022 📍Teaching and Learning Building (UoB Edgbaston Campus), Lecture Theatre 2. Open to everyone!

This week!!!

We can't wait for this conference! Be sure to register and join us on 12 May 2022. @theBRIHC

🎉Images of Research 2021/22 now OPEN for entries to ALL #UoB postgrads! 📸Create a single image representing your PhD research, PGT diss, or summative assignment. 🏆Win £100 & a spot at the PG Research Festival! ➡️More info here: bit.ly/3tNfWe8 #UoBPG #ImagesofResearch

📢The editorial team of our students' journal, #Diogenes is proud to announce the #CallforContributions for the 14th issue, to be published in summer 2022. Deadline: 15 April 2022 @CAHAPGForum @CAHA_UoB @RosettaJournal @theBRIHC @SPBSUK 🔗gemuob.wordpress.com/diogenes-journ…

I will be the colour of the refugee flag tonight, to support all those forced to seek sanctuary #TogetherWithRefugees #WhoWeAre 🧡 togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/get-involved/s…

Check out this brilliant talk by Dr Mo Moulton and Dr Manu Seghal from last week's Commonwealth Connections event on 'Histories of a Global University: Exploring Empire at the University of Birmingham'. @hammock_tussock youtube.com/watch?v=_WUsF0…

Wonderful visit @History_Bham. Thank you for sharing all the hidden gems. exciting futures as we think about how to digitalise and share the amazing collections. Thank you.

📢Join us tomorrow 🐶 #BRIHCEvents! "Building Dogopolis: #Dogs and Humans in Modern London, New York and Paris" 🎙️Chris Pearson - @SniffThePastDog from @LivUniHistory 🗓️Wednesday 16 March 2022 🕑14:00-15:30 Please register in advance: birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor…

#BRIHCEvents "#PhD research showcase" 🎙️S. Attari: Porous Protectors: Plague and Prayer in Late Medieval England 🎙️J. Galvin: Hidden Bodies and Disguised Spirits: The merchant's ghost in Sir Amadace. For queries - zoom info, please contact @DrVictoriaFlood (v.flood@bham.ac.uk)

“Taking #Kyiv will not end this war in the way Putin expects it” Our very own @kaa_richter, @History_Bham at @TRTWorldNow discusses the negotiations between 🇺🇦& 🇷🇺 and explains what we can expect based on the history of the people of 🇺🇦 youtu.be/pCoMuelxPKQ

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Let’s celebrate some of the amazing female colleagues at the #BRIHC @unibirmingham who are working on women’s history. Get to know them, and their work, through this thread!

📢"Historical Understandings of Mental Illness" @Emily_E_Betz, Angus Gowland, @ldsmith25 and @_erinsullivan_ will be joining us for a discussion on how mental illness was understood in the past. 🗓️Wednesday 9 March 🕓 1400-1530 birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor… @CREMS_bham @History_Bham

What were the causes of the war in #Ukraine🇺🇦and what is the history behind it? 🎥In this video Dr @kaa_richter from @History_Bham explores the importance of historical narratives in understanding the nature of the invasion and war. youtube.com/watch?v=xBO1h2… Thank you @kaa_richter

(1/3) 📢#ByzantineNews *SUSPENDED* 2022 POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM OF THE CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES gemuob.wordpress.com/annual-colloqu…

📢The @CadburyRL is currently advertising a #paid student #internship for eight weeks during the summer vacation. The opportunity is available to all current UoB students, including those who will graduate this year. @CbomgsU @CAHA_UoB @CAL_Postgrads @History_Bham

📢Now, you can listen the #radio play "Cardboard Citizens: Every Person Wandering" by @CardboardCitz based on research by our Professor Nick Crowson from @History_Bham 📻 @BBCRadio4 by following the link below: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…