The award was granted to Dr Coreen McGuire for a five-year project entitled ‘When Categories Constrain Care: Investigating Social Categories in Health Norms through Disability History 1909-1958’

This funding will enable the lead researcher, Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes, to coordinate a team to conduct ground-breaking research on how people responded to environmental and climatic change during the medieval period.

Dr Kevin Waite's book, 'West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire', was one of seven finalists shortlisted for the prize

The Ralph Waggett MA Studentship in History is available thanks to a generous donation from our alumni community. Applications are now open for 2022/23 entry!

The book deals with the experiences of Romanian Germans in the twentieth century - a subject that has hitherto been neglected in English-language scholarship

How Nazi Germany’s elite schools used British public schools as 'models' during the 1930s, cultivating connections with them through a series of student and staff exchanges, is revealed in a new book by a leading historian.

The paper, entitled 'The New Western Wall: the use of Crusades in the rationale of far-right organisations and what this reveals about the readings of its history', was written by second-year History student Stephanie Ormond

Dr Saha's new book, 'Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar', was published today by Cambridge University Press

Durham History Department is pleased to announce the Thebes History Scholarship, which will first be offered to students beginning their degree in academic year 2022/23

Prof. Clifford's book, 'Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust', has been named a finalist in the prestigious Cundill History Prize

Prof. Clifford's book, which explores the subsequent lives of child Holocaust survivors, has been longlisted for the Cundill History Prize

Professor Ludmilla Jordanova and Dr Jonathan Saha are to give RHS Lectures this autumn