by Alice Gorton | Nov 30, 2020 | Announcements |
Ellie Lowe, PhD student at Cambridge, has written an article, “‘To Keep It in the Family’: Spouses, Seat Inheritance and Parliamentary Elections in Post-Suffrage Britain 1918–1945”, for a collection on Nancy Astor, public women and gendered political...
by Alice Gorton | Nov 17, 2020 | Announcements |
Susan Pedersen, who is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, has reviewed Emma Griffin’s new book, Bread Winners: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020). Susan’s review will be of interest to...
by Alice Gorton | Nov 17, 2020 | Announcements |
Helen McCarthy, along with David Geiringer (QMUL), is organizing a series of workshops exploring how historians can approach writing histories of Britain in the 1990s. Helen and David invite grad students to get involved with writing a series of blogs to complement...
by Alice Gorton | Nov 15, 2020 | Announcements |
We’re thrilled that Divya Subramanian has received an Honorable Mention for the North American Conference on British Studies’ Walter D. Love Prize, awarded to the best articles in British history written by a North American scholar. Divya’s...
by Alice Gorton | Nov 15, 2020 | Announcements |
Lynton Lees, PhD student at Columbia, has been awarded the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Dissertation Travel Grant. Her dissertation, “Democracy’s children: education, citizenship, and the totalitarian challenge to Britain and its empire,...