Dr Chris Callow explores the connections between the medieval past, the public perception of the past, and Birmingham’s undergraduate History programmes.
Professor Karen Harvey, Professorial Fellow and Professor of Cultural History, uses 18th century letters to explore experiences of embodiment.
We met with Dr Alex Mayhew, our new Assistant Professor in the Department of History, to talk about his teaching, his research and his academic background.
Tumbling numbers of people identifying as Christian should be no surprise, says Dr Michala Hulme.
A panel of academics reflected on collaborative public history: history that is made with and by, as well as for, the public.
Professor Uekötter talked to the Guardian about sustainable food production.
Frank Uekötter is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Birmingham and he discussed his work on monocultures with Sebastian Garcia.
The UK has the largest video game sector in Europe and is becoming one of the UK’s fasted growing creative sectors.
Recording available of the Annual Fage Lecture, this year given by Kristin Mann, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Emory University.
Dr Thomas Brodie, Lecturer in 20th- Century European History, shares his experience of visiting and speaking at a conference in Nuremberg.
On Wednesday 19 October we welcomed Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University) and enjoyed her brilliant paper on ‘Imagined Ecologies’.
Recording available of the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) and Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre (BECC) panel discussion.