History at Newcastle

29/05/2024

Listen to Newcastle History PhD student, Eleanor Gilchrist, discuss her fascinating research into the history of crochet on the Sew What? Podcast:

A podcast about historic needlework and those who stitched it

22/05/2024

*EVENT* Exploring Classical & Historical Northumbria with Dr Susanna Phillippo.

Sunday 26th May: Jarrow-St. Pauls' church & monastery and the Tyne Pedestrian Tunnel.

Depart: Meet at *Monument Metro station* by the ticket machines at 12.15 to catch the 12.24 Metro to Bede.
Return: c. 17.30
Cost: £6.00 for a Tyne and Wear Day Rover ticket. Everything else is free (except any afternoon refreshments at the excellent café).

Jarrow is home to one of the most significant sites for early British Christian history. Highlights:
- Original Saxon church (685 AD) surviving as the chancel of the present St. Paul's, home to Bede, one of the earliest and most important English historians
- Reconstructed Saxon village, and museum, at Jarrow Hall
- Ruins of Norman monastery
- Fascinating sidelights on Britain's commercial and industrial heritage, in the Tyne Pedestrian and Cycle tunnel, and the story of the Jarrow March.

Everyone welcome, including friends from outside the university. Just turn up on the day, but please do email [email protected] in advance if you are definitely interested.

09/05/2024

🎓We are delighted that two of our colleagues in HCA have been nominated in The Education Awards 2024:

🌟 Dr Philip Garrett - Outstanding Contribution to Academic Support
🌟 Dr Sally Waite - Outstanding Contribution to Personal Support

Wishing the very best of luck to all the nominees!

You can see the full awards shortlist here: https://nusu.co.uk/student-voice/teas/categories

08/05/2024

*EVENT* Exploring Classical & Historical Northumbria with Dr Susanna Phillippo.
Sunday 12th May: Carlisle Town, Museum and Castle

Schedule:
Meet at Eldon Sq bus station (stand A) at *09.25* to catch the bus at 09.35.
Return 19.28 (earlier return is possible)
Cost: £2 single bus ticket each way (£1 if under 21-bring proof of age). Plus money for lunch & refreshments (entry to castle and museum is free for students)

• Carlisle: attractive border town, a major player in the defence of (and disputes over!) the English-Scottish border, with a varied and fascinating history and an extensive Norman Castle which remained in active use for 900 years;
• site of significant Roman fort: Tullie House museum has impressive collections and displays, including reconstruction of the original western turf version of Hadrian’s Wall.

We’ll aim to visit the museum in the late morning to get the Roman background, have lunch there, and then explore the castle and Cathedral after lunch.

Everyone welcome, including friends from outside the university. Just turn up on the day, but it please do e-mail [email protected] in advance if you are definitely interested.

29/04/2024

Want to know more about MA's in History, Public History and the History of Medicine? Come and have a chat with staff and current MA students at our dedicated postgraduate study event this week.
Register here: https://bit.ly/3WcaXCn

📆 Tues 30 April, 4-6pm
📍 King's Hall, Armstrong Building

22/04/2024

This week's Modern European History Seminar will be presented by Dr Dina Gusejnova (London School of Economics) with a paper entitled 'Captive knowledge: some intellectual consequences of interment in the Second World War'

📅 24 April @ 4pm
📍 ARMB 1.04

Everyone is welcome, we hope to see many of you there.

19/03/2024

This weeks History Research Seminar will be presented by Newcastle's own Dr Jen Kain, with a paper entitled 'Traversing Multiple Sites of Transit: Repatriating ‘Mentally Distressed’ British Seamen, 1925-1930'

📆 20 March, 4pm
📍 ARMB 1.04

Everyone welcome!

More details 👇

This paper discusses the management of Distressed British Seamen (DBS) using surviving British Board of Trade records from the 1920s.  In doing so, it positions merchant seamen who became incapacitated at sea as part of a global workforce who went through alternating periods of (im)mobility. By foc...

06/03/2024

Today's History Research Seminar will be presented by our very own Dr Darakhshan Khan, who will be giving a paper titled "In search of the missing servant in colonial India: a sociological, literary and biographical inquiry"

📆 6 March, 4pm
📍 ARMB 1.04

As ever, all are welcome - staff, students, and friends.

20/02/2024

Join us at tomorrow's History Research Seminar where Dr Laura Tisdall will give the presentation 'We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain'.

📆 21 Feb, 4pm
📍 ARMB 1.04

Find out more about what Laura will be discussing here:

How would the history of modern Britain look different if it was told through the eyes of children and young people? My current book project on Cold War Britain (c.1956 to c.1989), by foregrounding sources that were produced at the time by young people under 21, challenges big historical narratives....

07/02/2024

Today's History Research Seminar 'Whose Costume, Whose Body? Cultural Appropriation at the Georgian Masquerade' will be presented by Dr Meg Kobza. All welcome!

📆Weds 7 February
⏰4pm
📍ARMB 1.04

06/02/2024

There's still time to book your place at our Postgraduate Open Day happening tomorrow! We'll have staff and students ready to answer all your postgraduate questions. Come down and say hi.

Book your place here: https://ncl.ac.uk/study/meet/postgraduate-open-day/

25/01/2024

Considering Postgraduate study in History?

Come along to our Postgraduate Open Day and chat with academics, learn about funding and hear from current students.

Book your place here 👉
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/study/meet/postgraduate-open-day/
and take the first step on your postgraduate journey!

📆 Wednesday 7 February 2024
⏰12-5pm
📍Lindisfarne, Hadrian Building

11/01/2024

Missed our on-campus Undergraduate events? Sign up to our next Virtual Student Experience Day on Wednesday 17th Jan 2024. See you there! Book your place now

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