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Applications invited for the Northern History Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
The competition is open to graduate students and early-career researchers. A prize of £200 will be awarded for the winning essay, which will be considered for publication in the journal.
A Hidden Treasure in Leeds University Library Special Collections
Postgraduate student sheds light on a manuscript in the Ripon Cathedral collection.
Masculinity in Byzantium: Dr Maroula Perisanidi on her new book
Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200: Scholars, Clerics and Violence is published by Cambridge University Press (2024). Dr Perisanidi joins us to tell us more about the book.
A Somali Village in Colonial Bradford
From May to October 1904, 57 Somali people lived in a walled compound as part of Bradford’s Great Exhibition in Bradford’s Lister Park.
Read all about it in journal special issues
Dr Maroula Perisanidi and Professor Claire Eldridge have both recently been part of teams co-editing special issues of key historical journals.