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Buckingham's PhD in Refugee History provides world-class supervision in one of the fastest growing and hugely relevant fields of historical study. Applications are now open!

PhD Refugee History An advanced research degree in Refugee History; a rapidly growing field of study, with a vast range of possible thesis topics.

The MA in Migration History will launch at the University of Buckingham's London campus this autumn. Applications are now open for this new course, unique in UK higher education, covering the theme of movement across the centuries. Find out more at: https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/ma-migration-history-people-objects-cultures/

Professor SIMON HEFFER's brilliant MA and PhD programme, based in London. Now enrolling for the new academic year, starting September. For more information: https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/research/ma-20th-century-british-history-by-research

The Humanities Research Institute University of Buckingham congratulates our colleague, Dr Adriano Aymonino, on winning the 2022 William Berger Award for the best work of the previous year in the field of British Art History. Dr Aymonino received the award for his book, Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, published by Yale in 2021.

Below: Dr Aymonino receiving the Berger Award from Sir Charles Saumarez Smith. former Director of the National Gallery.

Malodorous history, discussed by Adrian Tinniswood, Course Director of Buckingham’s research programmes in Country House Studies, in today’s Sunday Telegraph.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/sewage-corruption-eels-u-bend-dark-history-thames/

Sewage, corruption and eels in the u-bend – a dark history of the Thames Private greed and public filth collide in Nick Higham's The Mercenary River, a superbly malodorous history of the London's great waterway

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Outstanding research programmes in History of Art

Based in Burlington House, London, and directed by the renowned art historians Michael Prodger and Adriano Aymonino, this one-year MA and three-year PhD programme provides the opportunity to pursue in-depth research in the field of art history on the subject of your choice.

Expert one-to-one supervision is complemented by a series of evening seminars by an acclaimed group of art historians and gallery directors, starting in October:

Xavier Bray • Richard Cork • Martin Gayford • Martin Kemp • Robin Simon • Kathleen Soriano • Luke Syson • Letizia Treves

Seminars are held in Burlington House, Piccadilly, each followed by a working dinner with the speaker, where discussion and questioning continues. The programme starts in October.

For further details email:
[email protected]

MA History of Art: Renaissance to Modernism by Research | University of Buckingham The University of Buckingham’s one-year MA by research in the History of Art: Renaissance to Modernism gives an overview of the development of Western art and its leading artists and movements and offers students the chance to study in depth an approved…

The Institute Director's review of an outstanding new biography of the Empress Maria Theresa, out in this month's Literary Review.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/holy-roman-administrator

Based in Burlington House, London, and directed by the renowned art historians Michael Prodger and Adriano Aymonino, this one-year MA and three-year PhD programme provides the opportunity to pursue in-depth research in the field of art history on the subject of your choice.

Expert one-to-one supervision is complemented by a series of evening seminars by an acclaimed group of art historians and gallery directors, starting in October:

Xavier Bray • Richard Cork • Martin Gayford • Martin Kemp • Robin Simon • Kathleen Soriano • Luke Syson • Letizia Treves

Seminars are held in Burlington House, Piccadilly, each followed by a working dinner with the speaker, where discussion and questioning continues. The programme starts in October.

For further details email:
[email protected]

MA History of Art: Renaissance to Modernism by Research | University of Buckingham The University of Buckingham’s one-year MA by research in the History of Art: Renaissance to Modernism gives an overview of the development of Western art and its leading artists and movements and offers students the chance to study in depth an approved…

The Institute's Research Day in Biography on Wednesday 6 April has an afternoon devoted to presentations by current research students.

But the seminar at 5 pm (Vinson Building Room 5, Hunter St, Buckingham) is open to any who might be interesting in graduate student at the University: distinguished author Leanda de Lisle discusses her recent biography of King Charles I - The White King - with Ophelia Field Author of The Favourite.

To register to attend (without charge) email:
[email protected]

The new biography of King George V by the ‘immensely experienced’ Jane Ridley, Professor of History at Buckingham, is reviewed - and praised - by Sir Max Hastings in today’s Sunday Times.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1932ed4c-30ed-11ec-91da-063c6e372e74?shareToken=80a5afcef4d4e552e52c9edcfba2e61d

King George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley review — it’s not easy being a royal It is not much fun being a modern king. Four years after George V followed his father Edward VII onto the throne in 1910, his wife, Mary, wrote plaintively to h

A new history of the Special Boat Service by HRI Fellow Professor SAUL DAVID (Humanities Research Institute University of Buckingham) is reviewed in The Spectator.

'This book is a must for naval and military historians. Beyond that, the knowledge of those involved, their bravery and jeopardy, will grip the general reader.'

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-very-british-coup-sbs-silent-warriors-reviewed

A very British coup: SBS – Silent Warriors reviewed | The Spectator The riveting story of how a few men saw the potential for clandestine marine operations against our German enemy and came up with plans for using collapsible canoes