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,...
by Alice Gorton | Nov 2, 2020 | Announcements |
Susan Pedersen has written a piece on Michael Apted, the creator of the Up television series, for The Nation‘s “Books & the Arts” section this week. Apted’s series traced the lives of a cohort of English children over six decades. The...
by Alice Gorton | Nov 2, 2020 | Announcements |
The following NYCTC members and alumni will present on panels at the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), which is taking place over Zoom on November 7-8th and November 14-15th. Registration is free to all members. NYCTC members can be seen at the...
by Alice Gorton | Oct 27, 2020 | Announcements |
We’re delighted that Max Long, PhD student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has published his article, “The ciné-biologists: natural history film and the co-production of knowledge in interwar Britain”, in The British Journal for the History of...
by Alice Gorton | Sep 11, 2020 | Announcements |
Peter Mandler’s new book, The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War, has been published with Oxford University Press. Full details are available here. Congratulations...
by Alice Gorton | Sep 11, 2020 | Announcements |
Divya Subramanian, PhD candidate at Columbia, has published an article, “The Townscape Movement and the Politics of Post-War Urbanism”, in Twentieth Century British History. The article is available on advanced access here. Divya’s dissertation,...