Start of a new three-part television series on BBC4 by Professor Saul David, Professor of Military History and Humanities Research Institute Fellow (2 February 2012)
Professor David’s new three part television series, to be screened weekly from 2 February at 21:00 at BBC4, examines the role of logistics in warfare and is entitled ‘Bullets, Boots, and Bandages: How to Really Win at War’. It coincides with the publication of his new book, All the King’s Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo (Allen Lane, 2012). More about Saul David.
Humanities Research Institute Fellow wins 2012 Nonino Prize (28 January 2012)
Professor Michael Burleigh, Professorial Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, today receives the 2012 Nonino Prize for his contribution to the study of History. The jury was presided over by V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate for Literature 2001, and included Peter Brook, John Banville, Ulderico Bernardi, Luca Cendali, Antonio R. Damasio, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, James Lovelock, Claudio Magris, Norman Manea, Morando Morandini, Edgar Morin and Ermanno Olmi.
Read full news article. Further details of the Prize are to be found here in PDF format.
Work by Humanities Research Institute Visiting Professor named as Book of the Year for 2011 by The Economist.
The new book by Visiting Professor Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Jerusalem (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011), has been named by The Economist as among its history Books of the Year. The Economist writes:
“[This is] the rich and absorbing story of the only city that exists both in Heaven and on Earth, as told through its prophets, poets, peasants, kings and conquerors. After his acclaimed biographies of Stalin, Catherine the Great and her lover, Potemkin, Simon Sebag Montefiore has finally turned to the book he was born to write.”
An interview with Professor Sebag-Montefiore is available online at http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/12/simon-sebag-montefiore-jerusalem
Formal inauguration of the Humanities Research Institute
The University formally inaugurated the Humanities Research Institute at a dinner in St James’s, London, on Monday 5 December 2011. Read full report.
