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department of history

Find out about our week of events for Holocaust Memorial Week

Dr Joanna Rzepa, Dr Andrew Fagan, Professor Andrew Le Sueur

07 December 2022

PhD student and graduate teaching assistant Lewis Smith writes about his work at the Marconi Archives, where he has helped develop a strategy for public engagement.

Lewis Smith

17 March 2021

Our historians need you to tell your health story

The Body, Self and Family Project team in the University of Essex Department of History are interviewing women aged between 50 and 80 about their everyday health experiences, to paint a picture of how women in postwar Britain tried to stay healthy, coped with pain, and looked after their health.

Professor Tracey Loughran

18 December 2020

Department of History

09 November 2020

Department of History

09 November 2020

Dr Lisa Smith

22 October 2020

In this blog, historian Professor Lucy Noakes looks into how the centenary of the First World War was marked and the importance of developing public history projects which uncovered more marginal histories.

Professor Lucy Noakes

06 September 2020

Mao’s China falsely claimed it had eradicated schistosomiasis – and it’s still celebrating that ‘success’ in propaganda today

New research shows China's claim to have eradicated this parasitic disease in the 1950s were false, and part of a big cover up.

Dr Xun Zhou

22 August 2020

Alumni team, Michael Sewell

15 June 2020

Coronavirus: how health and politics have always been inextricably linked in China

The Chinese Communist Party has long used healthcare as part of its propaganda operation.

Dr Xun Zhou

04 February 2020

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department of history

Holocaust Memorial Week

Revealing Marconi's photographs

Our historians need you to tell your health story

Meet Student Ambassador: Afroditi Sakellaropoulou

History and Memory

Research blog: What’s for dinner?

Hidden histories of the First World War

Mao’s China falsely claimed it had eradicated schistosomiasis – and it’s still celebrating that ‘success’ in propaganda today

HistoryIndoors

Coronavirus: how health and politics have always been inextricably linked in China