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Dr David Starkey launches royal rededication of famous Victoria County History series to HM Queen Elizabeth II
David Starkey launched the rededication to Her Majesty the Queen of the Victoria History of the Counties of England (VCH), the famous local history publishing project inspired by Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, at The Marc Fitch Lecture in the Chancellor’s Hall...read more
Institute of Commonwealth Studies secures major AHRC research grant to produce a unique digital research resource on the oral history of the Commonwealth since 1965
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies has secured a major grant of £398k from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council to fund its ‘An Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth, 1965-2010’ project. The aim of this three-year project is to produce a unique digital...read more
Refugee Law Initiative accepts invitation to partner the Refugee Research Network
The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) has accepted an invitation to partner with the Refugee Research Network, run out of the Center for Refugee Studies at York University, Canada. The Refugee Research Network seeks to generate and mobilise knowledge among scholars...read more
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Event highlights
Pick of the podcasts:
How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now
Professor Steven Shapin
Latin American Approaches to Economic Liberalism in the 19th Century
Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Forthcoming events:
2012 Anglo-American Conference of Historians: Ancients and Moderns
5-6 July 2012
T.S. Eliot International Summer School
7-15 July 2012
Events Brochure available
The May-September 2012 Events Brochure is now available online and in print on request.
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Digital resources
Ruth First Papers
An online archive of the collected notes and writings of Ruth First, the anti-apartheid campaigner, journalist and scholar...read more
Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO)
Free access to the rich records of London’s ancient Livery Companies, finding information about apprenticeships and admissions to Company freedoms from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century... read more
Women and United States Foreign Policy Interview Project
An online repository of interview data exploring the multidimensional relationship between US foreign policy and women... read more
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Fellowships news
New Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellows
The first of the School’s two Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellows, Dr Sabrina Rahman, has arrived and will be based at the School until April 2013. She will be most closely affiliated to the Institutes of Historical Research and of Germanic & Romance Studies to pursue the Empires of Design: Austria, Britain and the Global Consumption of Modernity, 1851-1934 research project. The second Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow is Dr Isabel Yaya, is expected to start in September. Her institutes of affiliation will be the Institute of English Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas and The Warburg Institute.
2012-13 funded research fellowships on the Americas
Institute for the Study of the Americas. Closing date: 1 August 2012
Brill-CHASE Fellowship
The Warburg Institute. Closing date: 5 July 2012
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New publications
Traslados/Translations: Essays on Latin America in Honour of Jason Wilson
Claire Lindsay (ed.)
Terrorism, Italian Style
Ruth Glynn , Giancarlo Lombardi , Alan O'Leary (eds.)
The Non-Independent Territories of the Caribbean and Pacific: Continuity or Change?
Peter Clegg and David Killingray (eds.)
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Research training and graduate study
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award 2012-13
Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Commonwealth Secretariat. Closing date: 11 July 2012
Louise Arbour Human Rights Research Studentships (MPhil/PhD) 2012-13
Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Closing date: 14 September 2012
Routledge/Round Table Studentship 2012-13
Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Closing date: 6 July 2012
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Job opportunities
Access Librarian (Academic Services)
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library. Closing date: 9 July 2012
Document Supply Services Supervisor
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library. Closing date: 9 July 2012
Human Rights Project Officer
Human Rights Consortium. Closing date: 3 July 2012
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