News
North Korea claims CIA paid 'lumberjack' to assassinate Kim Jong-un with 'bio-chemical attack' (Telegraph, 05/05/17)
Dr Adam Cathcart argues that the allegations are more about confusing or counteracting rumours about how Kim Jong-nam was killed.
Dr Kate Dossett joins Peaches Golding OBE to discuss Shirley Chisholm for the BBC Radio 4 programme Great Lives
Dr Kate Dossett (History – AHC) talks about the life of Shirley Chisholm, who was the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States.
Guernica - Birth of the blitzkrieg that rained death on a quiet town (Yorkshire Post, 26/04/17)
Dr Peter Anderson (History – Arts) explains the significance of the Nazis aerial bombing on Guernica, Spain, 80 years ago today, the first such attack on an undefended European town.
FOAR2000 students speak to BBC Radio Leeds about their Sweepiana exhibition (BBC Leeds, 24/07/17)
Students Joey Wright and Natasha Alan Smith (History) chat about the Sweepiana exhibition that they and other Leeds students have put on at the Leeds Central Library.
London's Triumph - Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City by Stephen Alford - review (Guardian, 20/04/17)
Professor Stephen Alford’s newest book, which is about travel, trade deals and the rise of London as a global metropolis, is given a glowing review, the book is due for release on the 27th April.