History department is leading one of the three Inventing Futures research programmes funded by a generous alumni donation for the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS).

Chris Bahl's book Mobile Manuscripts. Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean has been published by Cambridge University Press.

Harriet Strahl, a PhD student in our History department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster.

Benedetta Carnaghi (BA Newton International Fellow) and Helen Roche (Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History) are organising a conference in the Department of History on ‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism: Interdisciplinary Approaches’.

Dr Radha Kapuria’s book has *received a Special Mention* by a book award that recognises non-fiction work on the history of India.

Thanks to a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Associate Professor Alex Barber will create awareness around an undercelebrated month.

On 27 and 28 November, former British diplomat Ian Proud, who served in Thailand, Afghanistan and Russia, held a variety of events for students from Durham University's History Department and School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

Huge congratulations to Prof. Philip Williamson and Prof. Natalie Mears on the advance publication of their article 'The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving'.

In May 2024, the Durham History Department hosted a workshop on ‘Asian Connections: Flows of People, Medicines, Ideas, and Practices’.

After Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris said her Republican opponent Donald Trump was a Fascist, Dr Benedetta Carnaghi, from our Department of History, explores whether the former President meets the definition.

In July 2024, Durham University hosted a major two-day conference on modern Scottish political history. Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c.1700-1945, was run by Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the History Department.

Held every October in Britain, Black History Month (BHM) was first introduced in London in 1987 through the Greater London Council, as a means for offering a sense of history, achievement and continuity within the Black community.