King's College London, History Department

Arts & Humanities 2025 Supervisory Excellence Award winners announced | King's College London Professor Susannah Ticciati, Professor of Christian Doctrine and Dr Shuangyu Li, Reader in Clinical Communication and Cultural Competency, have been announced as joint winners of the Supervisory Excel...

Well done to our colleagues in the History Department www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...

The title of her paper was: 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool'

Well done to our former student Berry Pillot de Chenecey @berrypillot.bsky.social who has just won the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social (IHR) Pollard Prize for best postgraduate paper delivered in any IHR seminar series during the past year.

Campus talks: the future of doctoral research funding for arts and humanities An award-winning historian shares insights on changes to the PhD funding landscape in the UK and how early career scholars can maximise their chances of securing support

Our colleague Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social shares insights on changes to the #PhD #funding landscape in the UK and how early career scholars can maximise their chances of securing support. #ECR www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/campu...

Two years on: Horton Cemetery Memorial Garden — The Horton Nine Thousand For World Mental Health week, we remember the Horton Cemetery Memorial Garden installed at The Horton Arts Centre on 10 October 2023 and survey our activities and activism for restorative justice in t...

www.thehortonninethousand.org/news-and-eve... #WorldMentalHealthDay

'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery' The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.

See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
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#WorldMentalHealthDay

Christian anti-communism and the history of refugee relief — Refugee History. The history of post-World War II refugee relief is often presented as part of the triumph of modern ideas about human rights and the spread of humanitarian values. A closer examination of some of the ...

By our colleague David Brydan refugeehistory.org/blog/2025/9/...

Events — CEMS KCL Blog 'What's On' at CEMS. We run workshops, seminars, conferences, social and networking events, symposia, and more.

Full details on all of our events can be found on our website.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events

@hsmurphy.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World (closing date 13 October) . This post is a five-year appointment, starting on 1 January 2026. my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer in Irish/British History (closing date 6 October). This post is a 16 month temporary appointment (1 January 2026 – 30 April 2027). my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History | King's College London

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History | King's College London

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PhD Studentship: Wordsworth Blackwell Mather PhD Studentship (UK Home Students only) at King's College London Discover a PhD Studentship: Wordsworth Blackwell Mather PhD Studentship (UK Home Students only) on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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All Other Passports: shapes and sounds of visa inequality | King's College London Mark the beginning of LDF25 with an exhibition by LAGO Collective & King’s College London in the historic Bush House.

🛂 Millions are denied short-stay visas to Europe every year. In 2024 alone, rejected applicants lost €145M in fees – 90% from Africa & Asia.

On 13 Sept, exhibition by LAGO Collective & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will explore visa inequality through data, sound and design ⬇️

📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️

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History PhD students attend 2025 Sandbjerg Summer School co-organised by King's and 5 European universities The annual summer school in global history took place in Sandbjerg, Denmark from 18-21 June.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/phd-stu...

Our colleague Prof. Peter Marshall passed away last month. He became an assistant lecturer in our department in 1959 and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1980. In 2009, we celebrated his 50th consecutive year of lecturing @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.

A fold-out ink map showing mountains and rivers covering parts of Baltistan.

A blue photograph album page, with three black-and-white photographs of mountains and captions.

A blue piece of lined paper with handwriting, part of a letter from Gottleib Leitner.

We have a wonderful new blog post written by our MA History intern all about Imperial Scholarship and the East. During his time with us, Kamal looked at letters and minutes in our College Archive relating to Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, a Victorian orientalist and polyglot. 🧵
#Victorian #Empire

Our colleague Dr Sundeep Lidher was invited to speak at today's #FestivalofEducation! In a session on 'teacher professionalism' Sundeep shared findings from her recent ESRC-funded work on the role of teacher education in supporting engagement with British histories of migration & empire in schools

New article by @abdulwando.bsky.social, one of our former #PhD students

We are advertising for a one-year lectureship in Early American History my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

We are advertising for a one-year lectureship in the History of Political Thought my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

@berrypillot.bsky.social will also be speaking online on 25 June at 1pm @sheffielduni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/no-place-t...

The Currency of Wartime Childhood - Digital Childhoods During the Second World War, the material worlds and realities of children were transformed entirely, from the everyday spaces they occupied to the objects they encountered on their way to school. Alt...

@berrypillot.bsky.social just published a blog post based on her dissertation shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curr...

Such a pleasure to have colleagues from Tsinghua University and King’s College London come together in Beijing for our first Tsinghua-KCL China Forum.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined, contributed, and helped make the sessions happen!

Labour claims to be defending Britain from new threats, but its warfare state is steeped in old thinking | David Edgerton For every sensible proposal, there’s a failure to think through the UK’s place in the world – and a promised ‘defence dividend’ that won’t materialise, says academic and author David Edgerton

I've written for the Guardian on Labour's nostalgia for the warfare state. @kingshistory.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 22: 7. Will Young Will Young learns about his grandfather’s time as a prisoner of war in World War II. Delving further back, Will finds a connection to one of medieval history’s biggest villains and a king.

Last night, our colleague Simon Sleight @slowhistorian.bsky.social was on #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre with Will Young! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

It's been a wonderful first term at @kingshistory.bsky.social teaching the histories of science, the environment and the senses to a hugely engaged bunch of students! Managed to get some field-trip sensory walking action in which went down a treat: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/sensory...

The Blunder that Broke the Berlin Wall - ABC listen It's one of the most famous events of modern history, but what if the fall of the Berlin Wall began with a small slip up during a routine press conference? Guest: Dr Katrin Schreiter - Senior…

🇩🇪 What caused the fall of the Berlin wall? Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social asks whether it all began with a small slip up during a routine press conference in the 'No One Saw It Coming' podcast with @marcfennell.bsky.social.

🎧 Listen here ⤵️ @kingsdllc.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social

Attendees of the Jinty Nelson memorial event at King's College London with a large banner image of Jinty Nelson. Speakers are Pauline Stafford and Peter Mandler.

It was a great privilege to attend Jinty Nelson's memorial event this afternoon, organised by @kingshistory.bsky.social.

Speakers reflected on Jinty as a teacher, researcher, mentor, collaborator, friend, colleague, and defender and promoter of the historical discipline and profession 1/2