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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · 2d

We're super excited to announce the return of the Warwick History PG Work in Progress for 2025/26. Open to all who are interested in hearing about all the fantastic research being done by PG history students at Warwick!

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · Aug 15

Come and support this fantastic conference, co-organised by one of our PhD students!

Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social · Aug 15

We're excited to finally share our fantastic programme: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

We are looking forward to hearing from our excellent speakers, covering an array of perspectives and approaches to early modern nonconformity!

All welcome! Register to attend: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join our friends in the Centre for the Study of Renaissance tomorrow for their final postgraduate WIP session of the year in FAB4.79. Warwick PhD Alex Tadel will present a paper titled 'Scholarly Shepherdess: Angela Nogarola’s Eclogue on Milanese Politics (1403)'

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Beat Kümin @beatkumin.bsky.social · May 23

Congrats to the organisers of our @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social conference - a sterling job concluded with a well-deserved terrace reception

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 23

Wrapping up our conference with a PhD alumni panel and Q&A, discussing life post-PhD, decision-making and publication.

Thank you to everybody who presented at and attended the conference 👏

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 23

Our final regular panel of the conference: Science and the Politics of Knowledge!

Panel discussion points included science and resistance, public history and histories of individuals.

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 23

Our second panel of the day focused on institutions and spatial developments.

The Q&A portion, chaired by Claudia Stein, involved discussions of research motivations, colonialism and the conceptualisation of space.

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 23

Opening our final day of the conference with a fascinating panel: concepts in historical perspective.

Join us in OC0.04 to find out more about the History PG community’s research!

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Beat Kümin @beatkumin.bsky.social · May 23

Lively discussions on mobilities, materiality, gendered bodies and conflict at the annual conference of @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social yesterday - looking forward to panels on institutions, concepts, science and an alumni celebration today !

Panel discussion at the Warwick History PG Conference on 22 May 2025

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 22

David Anderson chaired our final panel of the day: Nationalism, Peace, and Conflict.

Some interesting papers about lesser known aspects of history.

Join us at 9:30am tomorrow in OC0.04 for another day of exciting PG research!

All welcome.

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 22

Our third panel spanned five centuries, on the theme of Bodies, Gender, and Selfhood.

Discussion also highlighted commonalities of religion, life writing, and emotions across time.

Chaired by Sophie Mann

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 22

We continue exploring fantastic PG research with our second panel: Archives, Sources, and Materiality, chaired by David Lambert

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 22

Kicking off our conference with our first panel: Early Modern Mobilities

Come down to OC0.04 to catch the latest in PG history research here at Warwick!

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 20

Please share this CfP for this conference co-organised by one of our PhD students

Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social · May 18

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 9

Our programme is here!

Join us on 22-23 May for two jam-packed days of exciting research!

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 8

Our annual conference returns! All welcome to attend this two-day showcase of exciting postgraduate research from the Warwick History Department

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Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social · May 3

So pleased that this event which I first had the idea for well over a year ago now is so close to coming to fruition 😍 We have a really wonderful programme with an exciting array of speakers whose papers I can't wait to hear in June! Find out more @earlymodern2025.bsky.social

Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social · May 3

Our jam-packed and very exciting programme is now available on our webpage here ✨ We're hugely grateful to all the excellent speakers who submitted proposals and have agreed to be part of this event, which has been long in the making but is now only a month away! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · May 1

Join us next Wednesday, 7 May from 5pm to hear third year PhD @global-subterra.bsky.social discuss her latest work in a paper titled 'Percy’s Pyrites: Gold in the Imperial Laboratory'!

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · Apr 30

Fantastic to see 2nd year Warwick History PhD Jeremy Goh have an article published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society!

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Apr 30

New in Transactions: 'Digitised Sources, Materiality and ‘Interim Archives’: Archive Encounters in Asia and the UK'

In the first of an occasional series of reflections on international archives by early career historians, Jeremy Goh shares his experience working in south-east Asia. #Skystorians 1/2

Opening page of Jeremy Goh's Transactions article: 'Digitised Sources, Materiality and ‘Interim Archives’: Archive Encounters in Asia and the United Kingdom'

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨Call for Papers🚨

We're now welcoming abstracts from Warwick history postgraduates for our annual Conference!

Deadline 16 April

Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · Mar 15

Great to see @brendantam.bsky.social and @chloechallender.bsky.social, two PhDs from our PG community, successfully organised a conference that saw scholars from across the UK attend.

Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thanks to everyone who participated in the “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” conference that I co-organised with the fantastic @chloechallender.bsky.social - we enjoyed a wide range of papers spanning from medieval Westminster to the present day

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · Feb 13

Join us in A0.14 for our next hybrid WIP session on Monday, 17 February at 5–6.30pm with Rebecca Capel who will discuss her doctoral research in her paper, 'Young Women, Denominational Identity and Protestant Cultures of Courtship and Marriage in England, 1675-1800'

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Chloe Challender @chloechallender.bsky.social · Feb 10

Delighted to be awarded proxime accessit for my article on women in the early 19th century Parliament, drawing on my PhD research @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social Congratulations to Sarah Moxey!

Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · Feb 10

🎉We're delighted to announce that the 2024 essay prize has been awarded to:

Sarah Moxey
For her essay on the Motherwell By-Election, 1945.

With proxime accessit awarded to:

@chloechallender.bsky.social
For her essay on women's modes of entry to the early 19th century Parliament.

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Warwick History Postgraduates @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social · Jan 31

On Monday 3rd of February we are excited to hear from Dr Camilo Uribe Botta, a recently completed Warwick History PhD to discuss his latest research ‘Plant Humanities Approach to 19th-century Environmental History: Orchids, Tagua, and Other Colombian Plants.’

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