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Advance call for one-day workshop: Coloniality in the UN: Histories of race, gender, and institutional violence, 1945-1999

The goal of this symposium to be held in May 2022 is to bring together scholars working with a variety of methodologies, timeframes, and case studies to reframe the United Nations (UN) as a historical subject and political agent in its own right.

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Research into UK Army unit diaries offers new perspectives on war reporting

Centre member Dr Debra Ramsay (English) is changing the way we think about official accounts of Britain's wars

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New Leverhulme Trust Research Grant - Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the  Middle East.

Catriona Pennell (History) and Owen Thomas (Politics) have secured a Leverhulme Trust Research Grant (2021-23) for their project, Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the  Middle East.

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Rethinking International Communism project awarded a 2021 AHRC Research Network Grant

Congratulations to Tim Rees (History), awarded a 2021 AHRC Research Network Grant alongside former Exeter student Tom Beaumont (Liverpool John Moores) for their Rethinking International Communism project, which will explore the Comintern’s transnational networks between the wars.

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New monograph published - Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle

Congratulations to Emily Bridger (History), whose monograph Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle, has just been published with Boydell & Brewer.

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