Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News

Dr Sandy Grant on Radio 3 Festival of Ideas

Date: 16 June 2013

Dr Sandy Grant will be appearing on an expert panel on Radio 3's Festival of Ideas at York to debate the Wars of the Roses and their legacy, with York ... Read more»

Review of Derek Sayer's Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century in The Australian

Date: 15 June 2013

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Keynote address:"All the beauties of the world": modernism, seen from twentieth-century Prague

Date: 13 June 2013

Professor Derek Sayer will be one of the keynote speakers at the conference "Global Art History and the Peripheries," held at the École normale supéri ... Read more»

History Teaching Award nominations

Date: 29 May 2013

We are delighted that one of theLancaster Teaching Awardshas been won by a History lecturer,Dr Alan Warburton, whoseaward is inthe Oustanding Undergra ... Read more»

Lancaster PhD students to attend Peking University British History Summer School

Date: 24 May 2013

Three PhD students, Amanda Pullen, Thomas Hopkinson and Alex Scott, will travel to Beijing as part of the on-going relationship between the Department ... Read more»

Sarah-Ann Robin on Radio 4

Date: 21 May 2013

Sarah-Ann Robin, a History PhD student, appeared on Radio 4's Making History on 14th May 2013 to talk about her research on material culture and emoti ... Read more»

Derek Sayer on Night Waves

Date: 23 May 2013

Professor Derek Sayer will be discussing his new book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History with Rajendra Chitnis (Bristol Un ... Read more»

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in Early-Modern Economic History

Date: 20 May 2013

Current MA student, Matthew Pawelski, has been awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, to work on a PhD in early-modern history. The pro ... Read more»

Professor Derek Sayer's new book reviewed in Financial Times

Date: 7 May 2013

Professor Derek Sayer's new book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), was rev ... Read more»

Two New Historians at Lancaster from 2013

Date: 7 May 2013

The Department of History will be welcoming two new colleagues from August 2013 to extend its range ofhigh-quality research andteaching. Professor ... Read more»

Monograph Wins Prize

Date: 23 March 2013

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored by Dr James Taylor, has been awarded the Ralph Gomory ... Read more»

Angus Winchester interviewed for BBC Radio 4

Date: 26 February 2013

Professor Angus Winchester, Department of History, has been been interviewed for the 'Making History' programme on BBC Radio 4 at 3.02 p.m. on Tu ... Read more»

Essay by History PhD Student is Recognised by the Dorothy Dunnett Society

Date: 4 February 2013

An essay byAdrian Cornell du Houx (History, PhD) has been commended by the trustees of theDorothy Dunnett Society. The essay—entitled 'A Courtly Myste ... Read more»

Professor Jeffery Richards writes blog for The Independent

Date: 18 January 2013

The AHRC funded 3 year research project on the cultural history of Victorian pantomime concluded on 30 September 2012. It will result in tw ... Read more»