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Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow 2026: Call for Applications
The School of History is delighted to invite applications for the Leeds - Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellowship 2026.
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.