News in History and Cultures Week six: Dispatches from Rome DescriptionA report from Professor Diana Spencer, currently in Rome on research leave.Date:Tuesday 13 November 2018 Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries, 3-5 July 2019 DescriptionCall for papers.Date:Tuesday 13 November 2018 Fighting the First World War: stalemate and attrition DescriptionJonathan Boff article for the British Library.Date:Tuesday 13 November 2018 Remembering the Great War DescriptionOn 1 November 2018, over 350 staff students and members of the local community attended a special evening of music, readings and drama, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armistice.Date:Monday 12 November 2018 Black History on Film – Babylon (1980) DescriptionEvent report by Josh Heathcote, American and Canadian Studies and English (Joint Honours).Date:Wednesday 7 November 2018 The Battle of Algiers – Screening Event at the MAC DescriptionThe School of History and Cultures did on the evening of 24th September when it screened The Battle of Algiers, followed by an expert panel discussion and Q&A at MAC Birmingham as part of the British Film Institute's (BFI) Uprising: Spirit of '68 virtual film festival.Date:Monday 5 November 2018 University of Birmingham historian wins major book prize DescriptionProfessor Corey Ross, Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham, UK, has been awarded the prestigious George Louis Beer Prize for 2018 for his book Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World.Date:Friday 2 November 2018 10 place rise in THE World University Rankings 2019 DescriptionWe are now ranked 70 in the subject ranking for arts and humanities, which covers art, performing arts, design, languages, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, theology, architecture and archaeology.Date:Thursday 1 November 2018 Displaying 1 to 8 of 543 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next