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The cover of Laura King living with the dead. A photograph of a women in the 1920s wearing a beret and holding a bicycle, against an image of a wooden background.

Living with the Dead: Professor Laura King on her new book

Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain is published by Oxford University Press (2025).

Cover of Maroula Perisanidi, Masculinity in Byzantium

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 black and white cartoon showing women in old-fashioned clothes helping each other climb out of a dustbin. Text reads 'women have been retrieving each other from the Dustbin of History for several thousand years now'

Professor Kate Dossett's inaugural lecture now available to watch online

The School was pleased to celebrate Professor Kate Dossett's inaugural lecture, 'Changing the Script: Women as History Makers', in October 2024.

Multilingualism in the Novel

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.

Field Marshal Lord John French inspects the Glasgow Battalion, Women's Volunteer Reserve, ca. 1915.

Professor Jessica Meyer's inaugural lecture now available to watch online

The School was pleased to celebrate Professor Jessica Meyer’s inaugural lecture, ‘No (Wo)Man’s Land: Writing history at the intersection of gender and First World War Studies' in June 2024.