Press Releases

Monday 25 June 2012

• 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, a member institute of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, 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’... read more

Tuesday 19 June 2012

• Historic membership records of London's Livery Companies now online

  

  Free access to Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) is now available at www.londonroll.org. This new website makes it easy for academic researchers and family historians to search the rich records of London’s ancient Livery Companies, finding information about... read more

Monday 18 June 2012

• Dr David Starkey launches royal rededication of famous Victoria County History series to HM Queen Elizabeth II

  

  Famous local history publishing project inspired by Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 Dr David Starkey will launch the rededication to Her Majesty the Queen of the Victoria History of the Counties of England (VCH) by delivering The Marc Fitch Lecture in the Chancellor’s Hall of... read more

Thursday 07 June 2012

• Institute of Commonwealth Studies launches online archive of the papers of anti-apartheid campaigner Ruth First

  

  The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, today launched its online archive of the papers of the anti-apartheid campaigner Ruth First. First, a prolific scholar and journalist, was assassinated in exile in Mozambique in 1982. The Institute of... read more

Wednesday 23 May 2012

• Professor Steven Shapin gives his first lecture as ST Lee Visiting Fellow on ‘Changing Tastes’

  

  Professor Steven Shapin, Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, last night gave the first in a series of public lectures as the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In his lecture, entitled ‘Changing... read more

Friday 04 May 2012

• Rededication of the Victoria County History presented to HM The Queen

  

  To mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee a celebratory event was held at Salisbury Cathedral Close on Tuesday 1 May at which Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the Institute of Historical Research and Dr Virginia Bainbridge, County Editor VCH Wiltshire, presented Her Majesty with a rededicated... read more

Tuesday 24 April 2012

• University of London reaches 100,000 podcast views and downloads on iTunes U

  

  The University of London platform on iTunes U, managed by the School of Advanced Study, today reached a milestone 100,000 podcast views and downloads. The University of London on iTunes U, which will celebrate its one-year anniversary on 7 June, enables researchers, students, and the public to... read more

Monday 16 April 2012

• Harvard’s Professor Steven Shapin to join London’s School of Advanced Study as ST Lee Visiting Fellow, May-June 2012

  

  Professor Steven Shapin, Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will hold the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for 2011-12. Professor Shapin, who has published widely in the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, will... read more

Friday 30 March 2012

• Networker and literary critic Beat Mazenauer will lead first Ingeborg Bachmann Centre workshop on communicating literature in the digital age

  

  The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), one of the 10 prestigious Institutes that make up the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, will hold its first workshop on the digital promotion of reading skills and... read more

Friday 23 March 2012

• The Refugee Law Initiative’s ‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ series concludes with open debate between MPs, Lords and refugee experts at Portcullis House

  

  The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, concluded its collaborative seminar series ‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ with a well-attended open debate at Portcullis House on 15 March 2012. The seminar series, which was held in... read more