History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London

12/12/2025

Congratulations to School of Historical Studies PhD Nick Evans on his first monograph The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919: From Innovation to Stagnation supervised at Birkbeck University of London by Dr Carmen Mangion and Professor Dora Vargha

08/12/2025

Congratulations to Melanie Dye, who received the 2025 Outstanding BA Dissertation Award in History, Classics and Archaeology for her dissertation entitled ''Gross Abuse and Bad Poetry: The Tonbridge Miscellanies, what were they, who were they produced for, and what can they reveal about the mentalities and social networks of spa going society in the eighteenth century'. She is shown in this photo with supervisor Mike Berlin and Director of Education Brodie Waddell.

Melanie is currently a student in our MA Historical Research and intends on continuing her research on The Tonbridge Miscellanies.

08/12/2022

Information Across Borders: International and Global Histories

Friday 16 December 2022, 9.30 – 5

Birkbeck Central, BCB 209, Birkbeck, University of London

From the League of Nations to UNESCO, Freedom House to Amnesty International, information has been hotly contested on the international stage. Interwar debates about ‘moral disarmament’ and ‘false news’, Cold War discussions of press freedom, and heated arguments about a post-colonial New World Information and Communication Order are testament to the centrality of information as a tool for peace, a weapon for nation-building, and as a counterpart to military and economic diplomacy. The increasing global reach of broadcast, satellite and internet media have created new possibilities for cross-border transfers of information, allowing for the creation of new transnational publics, but also presenting a challenge to national sovereignty. This workshop, which brings together scholars from across Europe, will examine the international and global dimensions of information in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the role of international organizations in debating and exchanging information, the transnational infrastructures and agencies through which information travelled, and the consequences – national and transnational – of the globalization of information.
The workshop is open to all but space is limited. Please contact Simon Huxtable to register.

Organiser: Simon Huxtable ([email protected])

22/11/2022

Thinking of applying for a postgraduate programme?

Join Dr Julia Laite on Tuesday 29 November to hear more about our January-start MA programmes in History and Gender & S*xuality.

Book your place here:
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=34170

16/11/2022

Are you ready to make radical anti-violence art? The S*xual Harms + Medical Encounters Research Hub is excited to welcome you to an in-person zine workshop aimed at uncovering the historical uses of zines within anti-violence movements and providing a supportive space to create your own radical art in zine form.

Zines have long been used by survivors of sexual violence to communicate their experiences, build community, and enact resistance. Join SHaME's Allison McKibban for a brief history of zines in anti-violence movements, before creating, alongside Illustrator Erin Aniker, your own zine to take home.

Sign-up here for a FREE, in-person workshop at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham on Wednesday, 23rd November 2022 at 3pm:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crafting-anti-rape-activism-a-diy-zine-making-workshop-in-person-tickets-468474388507

16/11/2022

06/10/2022

Join us with Keith Beauchamp, filmmaker , for a Sunday Screening and Discussion of 'The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till' as part of Black History Month.
Sunday 16 October, 3.00-5.00pm, at Birkbeck, University of London, Room B34, main entrance on Torrington Square, London WC1E 7 HX
It's a free event so book your place here bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/the-untold-story-of-emmett-louis-till/

06/10/2022

04/10/2022

How have we historically understood & managed TB?

Tuberculosis: A Cultural History

Tuberculosis (and especially drug resistant strains) is a major global health problem, with over nine million people developing the disease annually and 1.5 million dying from it. The history of TB reveals the complex and often contradictory meanings assigned to this disease.

The terms used to talk about TB – phthisis, consumption, the “white plague”, and the “wasting disease”, for example – reveal a great deal about popular perceptions relating to contagion and individual social responsibility.

Thurs 6 Oct 2022

6-7pm

Gresham Professor of Rhetoric

Sign Up gres.hm/tb-history (Watch later & past lectures on website) Royal Historical Society

04/10/2022

It's the first weekend of term and we've extended our opening hours! Now open on Saturdays between 10-5pm and until 8pm from Monday to Thursday.

04/10/2022

Believe in Me CIC and the Raphael Samuel History Centre are delighted to be collaborating for the History of Indian Women & War Project. Our first session is:
Histories of Indian Women and War: S*x
Part of the History of Indian Women and War Project, this event will explore the history of Indian women’s labour and sexuality during the Second World War.
Thursday 20th October 2022, 6.00pm to 9.00pm, in person
Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, London, WC1E 7JL
Registration is essential. Please contact [email protected] by Tuesday 18th October

Please note: this event deals with themes of sexual violence