Durham historians are involved in the University's partnership with the MarcoPolo700 Foundation to develop a pioneering East-West Institute in Hong Kong and Durham, bring the connected histories and cultures of East and West to a new generation 👇 👏 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_q8...

An event to look forward to in the new year! Stefan Cristian Ionescu (Chapman University) on 'Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950' 4pm 12 January 2026, Elvet Riverside room 155

This was fantastic - moving, angering, and inspiring in turns. So proud of colleagues David and Julie-Marie, and the wonderful people at The Story, home of Durham archives - including archivist Victoria Oxberry (R), who is helping to build a community archive on HIV/AIDS in the county. 📜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗃️

Yesterday Prof. Julie-Marie Strange organised an event to mark World AIDS Day with Dr Rupert Whitaker OBE, co-founder of Terrence Higgins Trust, here with Dr David Minto and colleagues from Durham County Council and The Story

New article by Daisy Livingston, 'A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria'? 🧐📜📚🎉 compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day – 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

From sick leave to bereavement leave, Drs Alex Brown and @graceowen.bsky.social from our @durhamhistory.bsky.social have been exploring the surprising workplace benefits available in Medieval times. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day – 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

Prof @richardhuzzey.bsky.social & Dr David Minto, from @durhamhistory.bsky.social, have been researching the life & legacy of Sam Green, thought to be the first openly gay politician elected in the UK. Now there's a blue plaque in his memory: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

One for urban historians... The new Cambridge Urban History of Europe is out soon, including chapters by Durham historians Christian Liddy (vol. 2) and Markian Prokopovych (vol. 3): www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... @cambridge.org

Congratulations to Ara Keys on the publication of *Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations* 4th edition! Out now with Cambridge University Press, co-edited with Frank Costigliola www.cambridge.org/highereducat... @cambridge.org

🧀Our next History Department Research Seminar will be delivered by Dr Alexandra Sapoznik (Kings College London) on Wednesday 19 November, Elvet Riverside 142, 3.30–5pm. The title is 'Cheese in the Medieval Mediterranean: Environment, Trade, and Culture’. All welcome! 🧀

Congratulations to Rachel Harkes on her book *Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society*, which is based on her Durham PhD thesis – published OA with the @royalhistsoc.org series New Historical Perspectives uolpress.co.uk/book/forging... @latemedievalist.bsky.social

Tom Hamilton reçoit le prix Natalie Zemon Davis pour son très très grand livre. Un chef d’œuvre d’anthropologie judiciaire qui éclaire la sortie des guerres de religion: palpitant et virtuose. On ne pouvait rêver mieux pour ce beau prix !

Sarah Davies' work on Cold War cultural diplomacy featured in the Guardian – why Stalin hated Hamlet and much more... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

'Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England' – new article by Grace Owen, Alex Brown, and Tudor Skinner in the Journal of British Studies bit.ly/4hrVxCs (with colourful charts too!)

New article by Nick McGee in the American Historical Review, 'To Change in China: Late-Qing Naturalizations and their Historical Erasure' academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... @historians.org

🎺 Congratulations to Gabby Treglia, it's publication day for her book *Education for Preservation: Examining Native American Education Policy in the New Deal, 1933–1945*! 🎉 kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/

Joe Martin has a new article out in History Today! The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

Massive congratulations to our wonderful @liamliburd.bsky.social for the publication of his new article "The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s" in The Journal of British Studies. 🎉https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2025.10129

Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available! 📆28/10 15:00 @eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social

History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life – featuring our colleagues Amanda Herbert and Liam Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social with Heworth Grange School in Gateshead www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern). This Grade 8 open-ended position has an application deadline of 28/09/2025. Click below to learn more and apply. Please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...

From the current issue: "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya" by Christian Velasco (CIDE, Ciudad de México) and Justin Willis (@durhamhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Huge congratulations to @hibbertsalex.bsky.social for the publication of a new article in the @royalhistsoc.org journal 'Transactions'! Alex's article is available here: doi.org/10.1017/S008... See also the blog post that Alex has written to mark its release: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...

Huge congratulations to our student Ben Sharp for winning the DC Watt Prize with the Transatlantic Studies Association (TSA). Ben's paper will now be published as an article in the TSA's Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 🥳 More info can be found here: www.transatlanticstudies.com/dc-watt-prize

We're recruiting for the role of Professor in Pre-Modern Heritage Collections, deadline 7 July, as part of the Heritage 360 funded project, with full details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK253/p...

We're excited that Amanda Vickery is coming to Durham this Thursday 26 June to talk about 'Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945–1970' All welcome! Takes place at 15.30-17.00 in Elvet Riverside ER140

Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? Benedetta Carnaghi (@benecarnaghi.bsky.social) features in this BBC feature: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXM...

Still time to apply for this 24-month post as Career Development Fellow in Modern World History – deadline 23 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ236/c...

If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

From the current issue: "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya" by Christian Velasco (CIDE, Ciudad de México) and Justin Willis (@durhamhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

We are proud to announce that the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of which we are a part has been granted the Athena Swan Silver Award! Massive thanks to our colleagues Dr Alex Barber and Prof. Rebecca Clifford for all their hard work in putting together our contribution. 🎉

Last month we hosted the amazing Siobhan Lambert-Hurley @sheffielduni.bsky.social for the @durhamhistory.bsky.social Seminar. She spoke on royal women's relationship to food & shaping of a discourse on ideal diets in princely India, with great insights on doing Gender & Food Histories in South Asia.

Christian Liddy is part of this wide-ranging feature on 'Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion' @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...

Calling all undergraduates! Are you not ready to put down the books yet? Got a topic, time period, or theme that you want to explore further? Want to hone your critical thinking skills? Then come along on to the Confluence Building on June 10th to find out more about doing a History MA with us.

We are delighted to be involved in this British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant funded workshop ‘Religious History and Catholic Archives: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach’, which includes an archives showcase using our collections!

Undergraduate dissertations are always rewarding to mark - but especially when the acknowledgements thank you for (and I quote) 'talking about cats with me'. 😻🐈🐈‍⬛🗃️ I do feel that is an important part of a supervisor's role. Many colleagues @durhamhistory.bsky.social will no doubt agree.

Congratulations to Graham Barrett, who has won the La corónica International Book Award for his book, *Text, and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031*! Full details here with a snap of Graham at Kalamazoo to receive the award: lcclacoronica.org/journal/winn...

Congratulations to Graham Barrett, who has won the La corónica International Book Award for his book, *Text, and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031*! Full details here with a snap of Graham at Kalamazoo to receive the award: lcclacoronica.org/journal/winn...

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On Saturday 10th May 2025, Blackfriars and @imems.bsky.social will host the 25th Public lecture on 'Fit for a Kaiser: feeding the Holy Roman Emperor' delivered by our very own @lenscales.bsky.social. Tickets for this fabulous event are available here: blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk/product/medi...

New article by Antonia Perna! 🎉📚 'Schoolbooks Printed in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Milan: Education and cultural imperialism, 1796–1814' doi.org/10.4000/13om9

A thought-provoking interview with Professor Markian Prokopovych on the war in Ukraine has been published in the Palatinate. ▶️ www.palatinate.org.uk/ukraine-east...

Delighted to listen one of our alumni Danielle Giles discussing her wonderful new book, Mere, in conversation with fellow historical novelist Naomi Kelsey, author of The Burnings and forthcoming The Darkening Globe, at Collected Books. Congratulations Danielle! collectedbooks.co.uk/products/dan...

New article by Talitha Ilacqua, 'French Legitimists and Spanish Carlists: Transnational Ultra-Conservative Solidarity During Spain's First Carlist War, 1833–1840' 🥳🧐💾📚 OA here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We're delighted to receive print copies in the RHS Office of Rachel Johnson's new book, 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggle'. Rachel's book is now available in paperback print and free Open Access bit.ly/3M9uKwx, with @uolpress.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social.

We started day 2 of the ‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism’ conference with Alya Aglan’s wonderful keynote, translated in English by @benfried.bsky.social. Alya tells us that wartime humor changes the unbearable reality. Without words, humor captures the essential @durhamhistory.bsky.social

Many congratulations to Dr Rachel Johnson on the release of her new book Voice, Silence, and Gender in South Africa's Anti-Aparteid Struggle: The Story of a Young Woman. 🎉📖🎉 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism’—a conference that @drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social—now has a website: laughterasapoliticalcopingmechanism.wordpress.com Huge thanks to #ASMI and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for their sponsorship 🙏