Having chosen Kent for the quality of its research and a love for the campus, Steve Tough studied History and graduated in 2013. He is … Read more
Month: January 2020
Holocaust Memorial Day event: ‘Child survivors in Prague, 1945’
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Julia Burton from the ’45 Aid Society spoke on Friday 31 January in Rutherford Junior Common Room about the experiences … Read more
History launches “From Waterloo to the Rhine: The British Army 1815-1945” online course
The School of History has launched its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), entitled ‘From Waterloo to the Rhine: The British Army 1815-1945’, which explores … Read more
Remembering rationing
Head of School Dr Juliette Pattinson looks back at one of Britain’s most memorable domestic policies during the Second World War. Eighty years ago this … Read more
The unusual and obscure: the Latin lexicon of Anglo-Saxon England
In the tenth century, Latin authors in Britain had a habit of using particularly unusual and obscure vocabulary in their texts. Some of these words … Read more
Andrew Cohen on labour migration and labour relations in southern Africa, c.1900-2000
Labour migration has been of crucial importance in southern Africa for centuries, with large numbers of people having moved across the region to mines, farms … Read more
Kent History of Oral Health Project presents at annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM)
Helen Franklin, Project Officer for ‘Oral Health Inequalities, Oral Health Cultures in England 1870-1970’, reports on her trip to the Australian and New Zealand Society … Read more
Professor Barbara Bombi appointed to the Council of the Royal Historical Society
Barbara Bombi, Professor of Medieval History, has been appointed to the Council of the Royal Historical Society, and will serve for four years beginning in … Read more