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Dr. Sandra Araujo, former GHCC research fellow, wins Intelligence History Book Price

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:28:00 GMT

We are delighted to share Dr. Sandra Araujo's book Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964–74 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), has been awarded the Intelligence History Book Prize 2026 by the International Intelligence History Association (IIHA). Dr. Araujo was a Research Fellow at the GHCC from December 2022 to November 2023, while working on the manuscript. Many congratulations!

Dr. Araujo is currently a researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, and is particularly interested in the role of the Serviços de Centralização e Coordenação de Informações (Intelligence Centralization and Coordination Services) within Portuguese imperial politics and administration, and the institution's role in the liberation wars.

New exhibition: Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, c. 1573-1636 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, October 2026 to January 2027)

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:01:00 GMT

We are excited to announce that the exhibition Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, c. 1573-1636 will open in October 2026 at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence. This collaborative project has involved several GHCC members, and has been co-curated by Prof. Giorgio Riello, alongside Paula Findlen and Brian Brege. The making of the exhibition included support and specialists from the Global History and Culture Centre (Univerisity of Warwick, UK; ERC-funded project CAPASIA), the European University Institute (Italy), Standford University (US), the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Fondazione Bruschettini per l'Arte Islamica e Asiatica, the Regione Toscana, the italian Ministry of Cultural Goods and Tourism and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. A must-see for those in Florence in the upcoming months.

Congrats to Dr. Anca Cretu on her new role as co-editor of a Global History series

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:11:00 GMT

Our very own Dr. Anca Cretu has been recently appointed co-editor of the Studies in Global History of Central and Eastern Europe series, with Central European University Press. Alongside Jill Massino (University of North Carolina Charlotte), Dr. Cretu will co-edit this breakthrough series showcasing novel and cutting-edge research that explores the history of Central and Eastern Europe through a transnational and global lens. The editor team is currently accepting proposals!

More info can be found here.

Travel Writing at Warwick receives major donation

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:06:26 GMT

Amazing news! The 91Ӱ��ƽ�� has received a £1 million donation and a major gift‑in‑kind of rare travel books from philanthropist Bill Newlin. This major donation strengthens the University’s position as an international leader in the study of travel writing.

Alongside the Wheeler Travel Writing Programme, the generous Newlin donation advances Warwick’s ambition to Set the Pace in Critical Arts. The donation includes the establishment of the Bill Newlin Collection, a world‑class archive of travel guidebooks spanning centuries and continents.

The 91Ӱ��ƽ�� is setting the pace in the field of travel literature research, and at the Global History and Culture Centre, we are thrilled to support these advances.

Diversity in STEM GCSE Science Resources

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:26:32 GMT

Diversity in STEM is a set of GCSE Biology, Chemistry, and Physics resources that are designed to fit into existing lessons.

All the resources are curriculum-aligned and provide a simple, effective, and engaging way to highlight diversity in the STEM classroom.

There is an interactive website—Diversity in STEM: The Challenge—to get started: Diversity in STEM: The Challenge Interactive Website

As well as downloadable slides and lesson plans from both the website and the TES teachers’ resource portal: Diversity in STEM Slides and Lesson Plans

All resources are free to download, use and adapt.

They were developed by Dr James Poskett at the 91Ӱ��ƽ�� with funding from the History Department and the British Academy.

Monash scholars visit for “Islands and Empire” project

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:01:00 GMT

On 21-22 July, three scholars from Monash University visited the 91Ӱ��ƽ�� as part of their ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration, “Islands and Empires: Island Agency in Inter-Imperial Ordering.” The project is supported by the Monash Warwick Alliance.

The project seeks to better understand diverse manifestations of empire and their effects on island populations. Recently, scholars have dedicated attention to the relationship between islands and empire in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as the Caribbean Sea. Islands feature in accounts of strategic competition, and of how international law was hashed out among imperial interests. Several studies have pointed to the agency of island polities in these rivalries.

Congratulations to Professor Susan Carruthers!

Fri, 09 May 2025 09:18:00 GMT

Congratulations to GHCC member Professor Susan Carruthers, whose book 'Making do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World' has just been published! PGR student Jeremy Goh has also been recently published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

GHCC members recognized in Warwick research Celebration

Thu, 08 May 2025 09:29:43 GMT

GHCC members David Anderson and Guido van Meersbergen were recognized at Warwick's Research Celebration!

CfP - Material Literacy in the Age of the Global Turn

Thu, 08 May 2025 09:27:39 GMT

Join us for a workshop on 19-20 June 2025 at the 91Ӱ��ƽ��. Organized by GHCC's Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello, this workshop will foster a conversation between a small group of material culture history experts and curators and a larger group of PhD students and early career researchers on how to develop skills suitable for the understanding of and working with objects as sources for historical research and teaching. Deadline for abstract submission is May 18, 2025.

Congratulations to Dr Jack Bowman!

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:26:10 GMT

Dr Jack Bowman's 'The Early Political Thought and Publishing Career of V. K. Krishna Menon, 1928-1938' has recently been selected as one of two articles to be 'Highly Commended' in the Historical Journal's inaugural Early Careers Researcher Article Prize. Their article follows Indian Independence activist V. K. Krishna Menon, later India's defence minister and United Nations delegate, through his formative years in Britain as an editor. A book history of anti-colonial print, the article ties together histories of political thought, interwar internationalism, and global anti-colonial networks, to argue that twentieth-century anti-colonialism can be fruitfully engaged via the lens of book history. Their article is available open access and can be read here