Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures Encouraging interdisciplinary research into cultures past and present.
17 August 2022 Call for Papers: From the Breast Seminar Series on Interpretations and Representations of Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding in Pre-Modern Cultures
29 July 2022 Eighteenth-Century Research in the Midlands The annual Midlands Eighteenth-Century Research Network meeting was held at the University of Birmingham in May 2022
21 June 2022 Professor Uekotter discusses calls for Germany to return to nuclear power with Der Spiegel In a recent interview with Der Spiegel, Professor Uekotter discusses calls for Germany to return to nuclear power.
17 June 2022 The planet bears the scars: How war destroys the environment On Monday 14 June, Professor Uekotter discussed the environmental impact of war in an impromptu radio interview on SRF, the Swiss national radio company.
06 June 2022 Commonwealth Games: past, present, future Juanita Cox , Michael Dawson, Kate Nichols and Verity Postlethwaite discuss the meaning(s) of the Commonwealth Games through time.
25 May 2022 Spaghetti Junction at 50: what does it mean to you? As Spaghetti Junction turns 50 it remains an important symbol of Birmingham’s journey through the last half-century.
23 May 2022 Ovid in the West Midlands celebration On 9th May, children and their parents, carers, and teachers from schools across Birmingham visited The Exchange for a prize-giving ceremony.
10 May 2022 Geophysical sensors, excavations and computers reveal millennia of prehistoric Stonehenge land use This is only one of many new sites and unexpected patterns of prehistoric activity detected at Stonehenge by the Ghent-Birmingham research team
07 April 2022 What is History for? For a degree centred on the past, History creates the ultimate graduate for uncertain futures but what is history for?
06 April 2022 Birmingham 72nd in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law remains amongst the best performing research-intensive universities in the world, according to the 2022 QS World Rankings.
07 March 2022 Every Person Wandering - BBC Radio 4 play from Cardboard Citizens Theatre Co and Prof Nick Crowson A new BBC Radio 4 play, based on Professor Nick Crowsons research into homelessness, discovers the stories of those criminalised for being homeless.
15 February 2022 Recording Available for 'Reflections on "Forging Ahead" at the Black Country Living Museum' Event The Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) and the Centre for West Midlands History (CWMH) were joined by researchers from the Black Country Living Museum.