University of Southampton History Department
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History at the University of Southampton, where staff and students, past, present and future discuss history. southampton.ac.uk/study/subjects/history
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The War We See podcast: Conversations about War Imagery
Author Hirah Azhar, Doctoral researcher in the Department of History, University of Southampton and Imperial War Museum Blog Who decides what we see of war? What is censored, erased, or amplified? …
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November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New Blog by Hirah Azhar generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/2025...
Our Colleague Dr David Cox featured prominently in the most recent edition of History Today with his work on conjuring race (an outcome of his successful British A Mid-career fellowship).
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Our Colleague Dr David Cox featured prominently in the most recent edition of History Today with his work on conjuring race (an outcome of his successful British A Mid-career fellowship).
Please check out the upcoming conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, which features a keynote lecture by our very own Professor Mark Stoyle (30-31 October at the University of Exeter)
October 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Please check out the upcoming conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, which features a keynote lecture by our very own Professor Mark Stoyle (30-31 October at the University of Exeter)
We’re thrilled to celebrate our colleague @lottelydia.bsky.social, whose book Imperial Island (Harvard University Press, 2024) has just been awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association! This prestigious award acknowledges Charlotte’s thought-provoking work.
American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We’re thrilled to celebrate our colleague @lottelydia.bsky.social, whose book Imperial Island (Harvard University Press, 2024) has just been awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association! This prestigious award acknowledges Charlotte’s thought-provoking work.
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Tony Kushner's letter to the Observer's editor, published yesterday
October 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Tony Kushner's letter to the Observer's editor, published yesterday
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Delighted to welcome speakers and attendees to our conference
Herculaneum: Contexts, Present Progress and Future Prospects
Today we kick off with sessions on Archaeology and Papyrology including papers from eminent and emergent scholars.
Herculaneum: Contexts, Present Progress and Future Prospects
Today we kick off with sessions on Archaeology and Papyrology including papers from eminent and emergent scholars.
October 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Delighted to welcome speakers and attendees to our conference
Herculaneum: Contexts, Present Progress and Future Prospects
Today we kick off with sessions on Archaeology and Papyrology including papers from eminent and emergent scholars.
Herculaneum: Contexts, Present Progress and Future Prospects
Today we kick off with sessions on Archaeology and Papyrology including papers from eminent and emergent scholars.
New Blog by one of our Digital Humanities Interns on the topic of escape rooms in a box for use in museums:
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Escape Room in a Box and Digital Humanities by Stephanie Barter
Blog Post – An Escape Room in a Box Last November, I began a Digital Humanities internship, investigating the possible uses of their Museum in a Box (MiaB) which had been previously rarely used. Th…
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October 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New Blog by one of our Digital Humanities Interns on the topic of escape rooms in a box for use in museums:
generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/2025...
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Tony Kushner from our Department has published the following important article in the Conversation:
theconversation.com/synagogue-at...
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Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew
Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Tony Kushner from our Department has published the following important article in the Conversation:
theconversation.com/synagogue-at...
theconversation.com/synagogue-at...
New Blog on the Maritime Britain Conference held 16-17 September at the Avenue campus, University of Southampton. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/2025...
Maritime Britain Conference
Maritime BritainHow did Britain become a global trading nation—and what can the lives of sailors, merchants, and coastal communities tell us about that story? On 16–17 September, the Maritime Brita…
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September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New Blog on the Maritime Britain Conference held 16-17 September at the Avenue campus, University of Southampton. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/2025...
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This weekend there was an impressive #DayOfAction to #ProtectOurParks & stand up to erasure of #history under #Trump
With #ICE raids & federal troops in #DC there is also an alarming repeat of history. Read more 👇🏻 theconversation.com/why-japanese...
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With #ICE raids & federal troops in #DC there is also an alarming repeat of history. Read more 👇🏻 theconversation.com/why-japanese...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social
Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025
Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.
theconversation.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This weekend there was an impressive #DayOfAction to #ProtectOurParks & stand up to erasure of #history under #Trump
With #ICE raids & federal troops in #DC there is also an alarming repeat of history. Read more 👇🏻 theconversation.com/why-japanese...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social
With #ICE raids & federal troops in #DC there is also an alarming repeat of history. Read more 👇🏻 theconversation.com/why-japanese...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social
new blog by our colleague Dr Rachel Pistol about her piece in The Conversation. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/wp-a...
August 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
new blog by our colleague Dr Rachel Pistol about her piece in The Conversation. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/wp-a...
New blog post on David Cox's recent 'Political Witchcraft' event, which his British Academy Fellowship supported: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/2025...
Political Witchcraft
On 13 August, Southampton University hosted ‘Political Witchcraft: Magic and the Politics of Representation,’ an evening of public talks exploring how magical beliefs and practices have been resear…
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August 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New blog post on David Cox's recent 'Political Witchcraft' event, which his British Academy Fellowship supported: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/2025...
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My article explaining the disturbing similarities between what happened to Japanese Americans in #WWII & today's #USA
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theconversation.com/why-japanese...
@hotcus.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-japanese...
Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025
Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.
theconversation.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My article explaining the disturbing similarities between what happened to Japanese Americans in #WWII & today's #USA
@hotcus.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-japanese...
@hotcus.bsky.social @historyatsoton.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-japanese...
Soton History's Prof Neil Gregor questions the significance of Hitler's Mein Kampf for the resurgent far right in the latest article from ICWA's Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/mein-kampf...
Mein Kampf 100 years on
What is its significance for the resurgent far right?
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July 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Soton History's Prof Neil Gregor questions the significance of Hitler's Mein Kampf for the resurgent far right in the latest article from ICWA's Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/mein-kampf...
It's publication day for the latest book by Soton History's Neil Gregor, The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany, which tells a new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era. Congratulations to Neil! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany
A new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era. In the years after the Nazis came to power in January 1933 and throughout the Second World War,...
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May 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's publication day for the latest book by Soton History's Neil Gregor, The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany, which tells a new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era. Congratulations to Neil! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
If you happen to be in Utrecht, do take the opportunity to hear Soton History's Mark Cornwall lecture on 'Treasonous Subversion: the struggle for domestic security in Austria-Hungary'. Details below!
Why was treason such a concern in Austria-Hungary—even in peacetime? Join SHN’s next lecture by em. prof. Mark Cornwall: “‘Treasonous Subversion’: Domestic Security in Austria-Hungary”
📅 8 May |🕔 17:00 |📍Drift 25, 002
👉 Sign up (mandatory): forms.gle/oKVXVgSH729y...
🍻 Drinks after at Café Hofman!
📅 8 May |🕔 17:00 |📍Drift 25, 002
👉 Sign up (mandatory): forms.gle/oKVXVgSH729y...
🍻 Drinks after at Café Hofman!
April 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If you happen to be in Utrecht, do take the opportunity to hear Soton History's Mark Cornwall lecture on 'Treasonous Subversion: the struggle for domestic security in Austria-Hungary'. Details below!
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Interested in studying:
- MA HISTORY: Methodologies, Heritage, and Period Pathways
- MA GLOBAL CHALLENGES: History, Policy and Practice
- MA HOLOCAUST: History, Experience, Heritage
Want to hear from our:
- CURRENT STUDENTS
- RECENT GRADUATES
📅 Tuesday 6 May, 6pm
📍Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
- MA HISTORY: Methodologies, Heritage, and Period Pathways
- MA GLOBAL CHALLENGES: History, Policy and Practice
- MA HOLOCAUST: History, Experience, Heritage
Want to hear from our:
- CURRENT STUDENTS
- RECENT GRADUATES
📅 Tuesday 6 May, 6pm
📍Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
March 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Interested in studying:
- MA HISTORY: Methodologies, Heritage, and Period Pathways
- MA GLOBAL CHALLENGES: History, Policy and Practice
- MA HOLOCAUST: History, Experience, Heritage
Want to hear from our:
- CURRENT STUDENTS
- RECENT GRADUATES
📅 Tuesday 6 May, 6pm
📍Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
- MA HISTORY: Methodologies, Heritage, and Period Pathways
- MA GLOBAL CHALLENGES: History, Policy and Practice
- MA HOLOCAUST: History, Experience, Heritage
Want to hear from our:
- CURRENT STUDENTS
- RECENT GRADUATES
📅 Tuesday 6 May, 6pm
📍Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
For our students: remember to sign up for the Spring Careers Day on 11th March, especially the Alumni Panel from 5pm onwards, which will give you a chance to meet former graduates now working in a range of organisations from across the media, business, heritage, and public sectors.
February 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
For our students: remember to sign up for the Spring Careers Day on 11th March, especially the Alumni Panel from 5pm onwards, which will give you a chance to meet former graduates now working in a range of organisations from across the media, business, heritage, and public sectors.
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Register now for the 2025 Parkes Lecture!
We will hear Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum and Jonathan Leader this year.
📅 Tuesday 4 March, 6pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyndsey-st...
We will hear Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum and Jonathan Leader this year.
📅 Tuesday 4 March, 6pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyndsey-st...
February 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Register now for the 2025 Parkes Lecture!
We will hear Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum and Jonathan Leader this year.
📅 Tuesday 4 March, 6pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyndsey-st...
We will hear Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum and Jonathan Leader this year.
📅 Tuesday 4 March, 6pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyndsey-st...
A reminder of the upcoming Stonewall lecture, next Thurs. 25th. Booking link below!
Booking is now open for the Southampton Stonewall Lecture 2025: Leah DeVun will speak on, "The Shape of Sex: A History of Nonbinary Gender Before Modernity", Thurs. 27th Feb. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
Southampton Stonewall Lecture 2025
Guest Speaker Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) will talk on "The Shape of Sex: A History of Nonbinary Gender Before Modernity"
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February 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A reminder of the upcoming Stonewall lecture, next Thurs. 25th. Booking link below!
We are enjoying listening to Soton History's Prof. Maria Hayward on R4's 'In Our Time', discussing Catherine of Aragon. Live right now - or available via catch up services here! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Catherine of Aragon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We are enjoying listening to Soton History's Prof. Maria Hayward on R4's 'In Our Time', discussing Catherine of Aragon. Live right now - or available via catch up services here! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The University of Southampton International Summer School 2025 has now launched! There is a wide range of courses available, including 'Public History: Film, Video Games & Heritage'. Students will also enjoy a day trip to London, a boat trip on Southampton waters, and much more. go.soton.ac.uk/gqc
International Summer School | University of Southampton
Experience an exceptional International Summer School at the University of Southampton in the UK. Get a taste of UK university life and study business, finance, fashion or music
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February 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The University of Southampton International Summer School 2025 has now launched! There is a wide range of courses available, including 'Public History: Film, Video Games & Heritage'. Students will also enjoy a day trip to London, a boat trip on Southampton waters, and much more. go.soton.ac.uk/gqc
The end of last month saw the founding of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Our colleague @drpistol.bsky.social explains why it marks such an important moment for Holocaust Research in this blog: www.ukri.org/blog/support...
Supporting a sustainable UK Holocaust research infrastructure
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) has been signed into being with the UK as a founding member.
www.ukri.org
February 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The end of last month saw the founding of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Our colleague @drpistol.bsky.social explains why it marks such an important moment for Holocaust Research in this blog: www.ukri.org/blog/support...
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A moving & inspiring inauguration ceremony was held in Warsaw this past weekend for @ehri-project.eu We were honoured to have @christophersmith.bsky.social AHRC, & Adam Jackson DSIT with us. The next stage of our work starts now! @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A moving & inspiring inauguration ceremony was held in Warsaw this past weekend for @ehri-project.eu We were honoured to have @christophersmith.bsky.social AHRC, & Adam Jackson DSIT with us. The next stage of our work starts now! @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
A new interview for Voice FM: Soton History's Neil Gregor and Anoushka Alexander-Rose of the Parkes Institute discuss how this year's very important Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day will be commemorated by the University next Monday. Listen here, www.voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/playe...
Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2025 - Voice FM Arts and Culture Podcast - Voice FM Southampton
Holocaust Memorial Day
www.voicefmradio.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A new interview for Voice FM: Soton History's Neil Gregor and Anoushka Alexander-Rose of the Parkes Institute discuss how this year's very important Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day will be commemorated by the University next Monday. Listen here, www.voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/playe...