History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London

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The department has a long and distinguished tradition as an international centre of excellence, known for its strengths across a broad range of historical periods and cultures. We are a centre of original and influential research: our consistently strong performance in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) places the Department among the top five in the UK. Our academic staff are renowned intern

ationally as authorities in their field and deliver stimulating teaching programmes at all levels of study.

Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture, June 18thHistory at the 'End of History': Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialis...
05/06/2026

Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture, June 18th
History at the 'End of History': Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialism

Prof Toby Green will be giving the 2026 Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture on Thurs, June 18th at Birkbeck University of London.

Three decades after Fukuyama challenged Eric Hobsbawm’s Marxist history, a new ‘end of history’ is on the horizon. The rise of Artificial Intelligence, the assault on reading and thought independent of computation, and on the other hand the production of endless deepfakes all challenge the future of the historical profession. This lecture places this juncture of crisis within the historical frame of the last three decades. The expansion of mass inequalities, on national and global levels, has shaped a frame in which institutionalised history is inevitably now deemed a threat to the consolidation of these economic ‘gains’ in an era of reimperialisms of all kinds.



Register here:
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/62272/history-at-the-end-of-history-inequality-and-discourse-in-the-age-of-reimperialism

Congratulations to School of Historical Studies PhD Nick Evans on his first monograph The Local Government Board Medical...
12/12/2025

Congratulations to School of Historical Studies PhD Nick Evans on his first monograph The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919: From Innovation to Stagnation supervised at Birkbeck University of London by Dr Carmen Mangion and Professor Dora Vargha

Congratulations to Melanie Dye, who received the 2025 Outstanding BA Dissertation Award in History, Classics and Archaeo...
08/12/2025

Congratulations to Melanie Dye, who received the 2025 Outstanding BA Dissertation Award in History, Classics and Archaeology for her dissertation entitled ''Gross Abuse and Bad Poetry: The Tonbridge Miscellanies, what were they, who were they produced for, and what can they reveal about the mentalities and social networks of spa going society in the eighteenth century'. She is shown in this photo with supervisor Mike Berlin and Director of Education Brodie Waddell.

Melanie is currently a student in our MA Historical Research and intends on continuing her research on The Tonbridge Miscellanies.

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