Events in the Department of History

Global Identities International Conference 2025
The Historic Houses Global Crossroads project team is delighted to invite you to attend the Global and Local Identities Conference.
- Date: Friday, 14 November 2025 (09:30 - 17:30) (GMT)
- Location: Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre
Veritable 1945: time for academics to reclaim tactical historical analysis
War studies seminar given by Dermot Rooney
- Date: Wednesday, 19 November 2025 (17:30 - 19:00) (GMT)
- Location: Lecture room 2, Arts Building
Songs of Seven Dials: an intimate history of 1920s and 1930s Britain
The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London.
- Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (13:00 - 14:30) (GMT)
- Location: Room 201, Arts Building
Failure of a mission: the Churchill government's futile quest to save Greece from Nazi Germany
War studies seminar given by Steve Morewood
- Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (17:30 - 19:00) (GMT)
- Location: Lecture room 2, Arts Building
Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900
This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.
- Date: Friday, 5 December 2025 (10:00 - 17:15) (GMT)
- Location: This is a free online event
Modern British Studies Conference 2026
Building on the Modern British Studies conference series inaugurated in 2015.
- Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 00:00 - Friday, 5 June 2026, 00:00 (GMT)
- Location: Alan Walters Building

Global Identities International Conference 2025