Welcome to our new RLF Fellow

14 Oct 2024

London author Tony White is the new Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Fellow on campus and he’s here to help you improve your writing

Absolutely smashing it, team! Hard graft is paying off…

13 Sept 2024

We have just been ranked 21st out of 90 U.K. institutions in the Guardian and 19th in the Daily Mail - we just keep rising!

Alumna Aleema Gray curates 'Beyond the Bassline'

09 May 2024

Aleema was a lovely student and went to Warwick University for her PhD on Rastafarian culture. We’re so thrilled for her and can’t wait to find out what her next step is - GO ALEEMA!

Dr. Leonie Hannan - A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home (14th May)

08 May 2024

Jane Hamlett and The Bedford Centre are hosting a really *curious* talk (get it?) by Dr. Leonie Hannan.

History Extra podcast: Prof. Kate Cooper - Re-examining Women in the Roman Empire

02 May 2024

On History Extra Kate told Rob Attar stories about Augustine’s mother, his lover, his fiancée and the Roman empress Justina (not the same person).

Rewriting the First Crusade (Dr. Tom Smith 29th April)

26 Apr 2024

The letters stemming from the First Crusade are premier sources for understanding the launch, campaign, and aftermath of the expedition. Smith argues that some letters are post-hoc ‘inventions’.

Archives in/of Transit

21 Apr 2024

On 28 and 29 June 2024, we have a great event happening at University of Southern California. “Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present”.

Fresh from You’re Dead To Me w/Greg Jenner & David Mitchell...

19 Apr 2024

Julia Leikin reigns supreme in, 'Russia’s Mediterranean Moment: Constellations of Sovereignty and the Making of a Region, 1770-1830' (University of Chicago Press).

Interview and Reading with Jonathan Coe

17 Apr 2024

Join us on Tuesday 7 May 2024 to listen to Jonathon Coe, in conversation with HRI professors, historian Dan Stone and literary critic Robert Eaglestone, talk about his work.

Prof. Kate Cooper reaches finals of Cundill History Prize

17 Apr 2024

How bloody amazing is this!? Back in October, Prof. Kate Cooper reached the finals of the Cundill History Prize with ‘Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions’.