Join Professor Peter Gurney at the Essex Record Office for The Chartist Revolution - exploring the world’s first mass movement for democratic reform and its roots in Essex & Suffolk.
🗓️ 28 April 2026, 10:40–12:00
🎟️ Tickets: shorturl.at/R4Mly
Join PhD Art History & Theory student Solange Gulizzi for a talk at The Minories, Colchester, on 'Women, Power, and the Spaces We Inhabit' - 14 May, 7pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-powe...
DW’s Unmasking Revolutions series features Professor Nadine Rossol in its latest episode, where she contributes her expertise on the German Revolution of 1918 in From Kaiser to Republic: Why Sailors Overthrew the German Empire in 1918.
youtu.be/vwGxn_4a_uw
The author copies of the paperback of my book just arrived! Available now @cornellupress.bsky.social and others: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
New podcast episode!
Prof. Lucy Noakes and Prof. Nadine Rossol join Toby Miller’s Cultural Studies series to discuss how Britain and Germany remember WWI and WWII — the overlaps, the contrasts, and how states and individuals shape commemoration.
Listen here: tinyurl.com/2mxfyp47
Really engaged review of my book that understands what I was trying to do exactly.
I have a new article out (open access!) about what the Archaeological Survey of India was doing in Nepal in the 1960s, with thoughts about the global complexity of post-war archaeological knowledge and the categories we use to understand it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A quick snap of Professor. Nadine Rossol on German TV last week.
You can catch up online now: shorturl.at/jdxuj
Join Professor Tracey Loughran for "Staying In and Coming Out: Oral Histories of LGBTQ+ Women’s Lives in Britain, c. 1960-2020," exploring oral history interviews with LGBTQ+ women born 1940-1970 - part of the Students Union #LGBTHistoryMonth.
Monday 9 February, 5-6pm
CTC.2.01 (Colchester Campus)
New podcast: Professor Alison Rowlands discusses her landmark book Witchcraft Narratives in Germany, 1561–1652.
The book explores the social and psychological forces behind witchcraft cases and explores early modern views of conflict, magic, family life and illness.
🎧: shorturl.at/Llr9L
Join us and the Centre for Public History TOMORROW, Weds 28 Jan, for a talk with Dr Andy Pearce on 'Knowing, remembering, and forgetting the Holocaust in 2026.' #HolocaustMemorialWeek
www.essex.ac.uk/event-series...
Prof Nadine Rossol (History) features as an expert in “Countdown to Dictatorship,” a new 4‑part documentary on the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism.
The series will air on 3 Feb 2026 on ZDF Info, but you can watch online now: shorturl.at/jdxuj
Flooded Pasts front cover
Flooded Pasts back cover
The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Did you catch Prof. Lucy Noakes on Inside the Factory on Monday evening?
Lucy joined fellow historian Ruth Goodman to discuss the vital role of the Women’s Voluntary Services, and especially their mobile canteens, during and after air raids in the Second World War.
BBC iPlayer: shorturl.at/WDt4F
A new article, 'Normal Sickness in our Psychiatric Present,’ from PHAIS's Professor Fabian Freyenhagen and Dr Polona Curk tells the story of the rise of “normal illness” and of what they call our “psychiatric present”.
lestempsquirestent.org/en/numeros/n...
Prof. Nadine Rossol joins Louise Quick of History Hit and Prof. Matthew Feldman to uncover who was truly responsible for the rise of the Nazis. Was it all down to Hitler? The notorious propaganda machine? The economic chaos of the 1930s? Or something darker in human nature?
shorturl.at/d6mSB
Postgraduate Research Opportunity
Collaborative Doctoral Award: Fulfilling the Broken Promise of Support for Mental Capacity in an Era of Assisted Dying: A Comparative, Applied-Philosophy Approach
More info here: www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline for applications: Monday 9 February 2026.
New York University’s La Maison Française is hosting an online event, ‘(Anti-)Psychiatry and Democracy’ featuring a talk by Professor Fabian Freyenhagen on ‘Against Psychiatric Power: Basaglia and Foucault’.
21 November, 3pm (UK time) - Fabian's talk begins at 4pm!
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Did you know you can start a Masters in Western Marxism in January 2026? Whenever you start, you'll qualify with the exact same degree.
Applications are now open! The deadlines are:
1 Dec 25 (student visa needed) OR
19 Dec 25 (no student visa needed)
www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
A 1960's space age inspired silver dress is the centrepiece of a new exhibition curated by research student Amber Butchart.
The Synthetic Revolution at Haworth Art Gallery and Artists' Studios charts the history of polyester, from its Lancashire roots to fast fashion.
brnw.ch/21wWFk2
Fabian Freyenhagen is speaking this week at a conference on Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist who worked from within psychiatry to abolish asylums in Italy.
Find out more: www.go2025.eu/en/whats-up/...
History PhD student Louise Rodwell is presenting at the Cambridge University Modern British History Workshop TODAY at 5:00pm with a paper titled 'Imagined Landscapes of the First World War.'
See details below or join online here: bit.ly/47saG3x
"Change is not inevitable: reflections on The Big Think" by Dr Will Carruthers
heritagepulse.insights-alliance.com/updates/chan...
TODAY @ 3pm: Dr Jörg Schaub discusses 'Two Models of Aesthetic Freedom: Schiller, Hegel, and the Freedom of the Whole Human Being.'
Join us in TC1.10 or online (email phaispg@essex.ac.uk for link)
Image of badges with logo 'I know the value of history' and text 'The value and provision of history and the humanities: it's time for a political response.'
This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw
#Skystorians
Booking is now open for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:
'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd
6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians 1/2
Please join the University of Essex Centre for Environment and Society on Wednesday October 15th for a panel discussion and Q&A: Renaturing: Experiences, Practices, Challenges.
Dr Jane Hindley will be on the panel. Don't miss it!
"More than just sportswear" - read former MA Heritage & Museum Studies student Stijn van Gerrevink's article on football shirts as heritage:
footballmakeshistory.eu/football-shi...
Virtual reality can be a healing tool for disaster-hit communities, according to new research by the REPLACE Project: www.essex.ac.uk/research-pro...
Emotion, agency and identity.
Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'.
Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq