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Other information Pastoral care We pride ourselves on the personal attention that we give to our students. Every student has a Personal Advisor for the duration of their studies, who provides academic and pastoral support, including guidance on course choices and advice on personal and practical matters. There is also a student-staff committee which meets every term to discuss issues of common concern. Social environment As a historian, you will be part of a large, lively and diverse community of undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers. The Department organises an exciting events programme, including the annual Hayes-Robinson Lecture in History, given by internationally-famous historians: previous lecturers have included Simon Schama, David Cannadine and Linda Colley. We also have an active student-led History Society that organises a range of social activities and invites visiting speakers. Postgraduate opportunities If you are interested in taking your historical studies further after graduation, Royal Holloway is the place for you. The Department has one of the largest History postgraduate communities in the country with over 150 students on a variety of specialist MA courses, and MPhil and PhD research degrees. Further details can be found on our website. College and Departmental Open Days Our College and Departmental Open Days offer a unique opportunity for prospective students and their parents and friends to come and find out more about us and get a taste of what university life is really like. As part of a group of potential applicants, you will spend two to three hours with us. A member of staff will give an introductory talk, explaining what studying for a degree is like, what the examinations are like, the degrees we offer, and so on. You will also have the opportunity to meet other members of the academic staff and hear lectures. Our student helpers will take you on a tour of the campus, tell you about life on campus and answer any questions from a student’s viewpoint. There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the day. You may also have an interview or a general conversation with a member of staff. This gives us an opportunity to learn about your knowledge of the social sciences and to give you the chance to ask more questions. Dates of College and Departmental Open Days are available from our website: royalholloway.ac.uk/studyhere Students at the History Society Blitz Ball “My degree and time at Royal Holloway instilled in me a very real love of learning... The discipline to improve oneself and learn as much as you can in the field in which you’re working is as relevant to my industry as it was to the subject I studied. The sound industry, like any technologically-based sector, is constantly moving forward, and requires you to research the latest methods and practises to stay up to date.” Stephen Hughes, Sound Engineer, BBC proms 14 Department of History 6800 09/13
Academic staff and their research interests K. Humayun Ansari Muslim communities in Britain and Europe Sarah Ansari Modern South Asia, with particular emphasis on Pakistan, migration and gender Akil Awan History of Terrorism, Contemporary Islam, Jihadism, Radicalisation Daniel Beer Late Imperial and early Soviet intellectual and cultural history Evrim Binbas Intellectual networks of the fifteenth-century Islamic world Clive Burgess English social, religious and urban history from the Black Death to the Reformation Sandra Cavallo Social and cultural history of early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on gender, health and material culture David Cesarani Modern Jewish history and culture, Zionism, and the Holocaust Justin Champion Thomas Hobbes, heterodoxy and the radical English Enlightenment Greg Claeys History of radicalism and socialism in nineteenth-century Britain Markus Daechsel The intellectual and political history of ‘development’ in Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s Charalambos Dendrinos Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography Helen Graham Political, social and cultural history of 1930s and 40s Spain David Gwynn The transformation of the Late Roman Empire and Christianity in east and west AD 200–600 Jane Hamlett Modern British social and cultural history with particular emphasis on material and visual culture Jonathan Harris Later Byzantine history (1100–1453) and relations between Byzantium and Western Europe Peregrine Horden History of medicine, charity, disease, and the environment in early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean world Zoe Laidlaw Political, social and intellectual history of the nineteenth-century British Empire Edward Madigan Public History, First World War Andrea Mammone Fascist Italy and the extreme Far Right in post-1945 Europe Chi-kwan Mark International history of East Asia, with particular emphasis on relations between Hong Kong, China, Britain and the US during the Cold War period Vanessa Martin Political and social history, and foreign relations, of Iran, Shi’ism, Iranian Revolutions of 1906 and 1979 Stella Moss Modern British History, with particular emphasis on women and popular culture Rudolf Muhs Ideology, politics and society in nineteenth and twentiethcentury Europe Jonathan Phillips The History of the Crusades, with particular emphasis on the motives of Italian crusaders, on Richard the Lionheart, Saladin and the Third Crusade, as well as the modern-day legacy of the crusades in Islam and the West Francis Robinson The Muslim world from the eighteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on South Asia Nigel Saul Social, political and cultural history of fourteenth-century England Florian Schui History of political and economic thought and economic history in Europe and beyond since the eighteenth century Graham Smith Oral history, memory and narrative, and the history of medicine Dan Stone Historiographical, literary and philosophical interpretations of the Holocaust, comparative genocide, history of anthropology and cultural politics of the British right Emmett Sullivan International economic history from the mid-nineteenth century onwards Weipin Tsai Chinese modernisation and contact with the West from the 19th Century, and the history of the Chinese Postal Service and Chinese Maritime Customs Service Anna Whitelock Monarchy, religion and gender, with particular emphasis on court politics and political culture in sixteenth and seventeenthcentury England Alex Windscheffel Modern Britain, with particular emphasis on political, cultural and gender history Barbara Zipser Byzantine manuscripts, Greek medicine, history of texts The terms and conditions on which Royal Holloway, University of London makes offers of admission to its programmes of study, including those covered in this booklet, may be found in the Undergraduate Prospectus or Postgraduate Prospectus, copies of which are available on request from: royalholloway.ac.uk/studyhere The information contained in this brochure is correct at the time of publication but is subject to change as part of the department’s policy of continuous improvement and development. Department of History 15
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