SCHOOL OF HISTORY,

CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Dr Tatiana Ivleva was

nominated for Current

Archaeology prize,

research project of the

Year, for “Britons

abroad: the untold

story of emigration

and object mobility

from Roman Britain”

Dr Adam Morton organised a conference and workshop in September: Historicising Belief Workshop (12 Sept) – The workshop focussed on

ancient Greece to post-Stalinist Russia, and was concerned with how we access belief in the past. International speakers: Prof Susan Karant-Nunn (Arizona) and Prof Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto). Auckland Castle participated.

Reformation Colloquium (14-16 Sept) which is the largest Reformation conference in UK. There were speakers from nine different countries, including two world-leading plenaries (Susan Karant-Nunn [Arizona], Marc Forster [Connecticut College]).

Research Projects and Awards Dr Rachel Hammersley is involved in Inspiring Archives: A story of the Civil

War in the North East of England, an exciting outreach project inspired by some of

the unique and distinctive resources in Newcastle University’s Special Collections.

Rachel will be working with Year 8 pupils from Kenton School next semester to

produce a pop-up museum on the story of the Civil War in Newcastle and a history

trail around Tynemouth Priory. The whole project will culminate in a Civil War Day at

Tynemouth Priory on 22 June 2017. The project is supported by the Heritage Lottery

Fund and is running in conjunction with English Heritage.

Dr Violetta Hionidou with M. Nazou (Universite Catholique de Louvain) and Y.

Gassias (University of Crete), received funding from École Française d’Athénes for

their project ‘Μυκονιάτικη κοινωνία και ανασκαφές στη Δήλο, 1873-1914 (The society

of Mykonos and the Delos excavations, 1873-1914).’

Dr Jen Kain started her year-long post-doctoral project at the Institute of Historical

Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, at the start of October,

where she is the Pearsall Junior Fellow in Naval and Maritime History. Jen remains

attached to Newcastle University where she completed her MA in the History of the

Americas, and will be teaching on the Slavery, American Freedom module in

semester two.

Dr Thomas Rütten, and his collaborator Dr Oommen-Halbach from the University of

Düsseldorf, received 5000€ from the German Society for the History of Medicine,

Natural Sciences and Technology for a project which aims to edit and annotate the

correspondence between Karl Sudhoff and Tibor Győry covering the period from

1898 to 1937.

Dr Lisa-Marie Shillito has won two major grants recently. A Wellcome Trust Seed

Award in Humanities and Social Sciences for a project on ‘Biofuels’ and respiratory

health – the potentials of the archaeological record’ (£42,620.99) and NERC

Standard Grant (Natural Environment Research Council UK) for ‘Investigating the

nature and timing of the earliest human occupation of North America’ (£578,667.21).

Newsletter December 2016

Dr Sarah Campbell organised a

half-day workshop in October on

Oral History and

Deindustrialisation which

included keynote papers from Prof

Arthur McIvor (Strathclyde), Dr

Graham Smith (Royal Holloway)

and Prof Sean O’Connell (QUB).

Dr Philip Garret was

appointed member of Japan

Foundation Educational

Committee, a national

funding body

Conferences/Seminars and public lectures

Dr Claudia Baldoli, ‘Catholic neutralism, 1914-1918’ at conference

on 'Pope Benedict XV in the world of the useless slaughter',

Bologna, 3-5 November 2016.

Prof Jeremy Boulton, The Maddison Monument in St Nicholas

Cathedral: Faith, failure, fertility and death in seventeenth-century

Newcastle, Lit and Phil, Newcastle, 29 Sept 2016.

Dr Robert Dale, ‘“There, where they have grown accustomed to

flooding”: Responses to the Leningrad Flood of September 1924 in

Historical Perspective’, Cities and Disasters: Urban Adaptability

and Resilience in History, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute

for Historical Research (3-4 November 2016).

Dr Robert Dale, "Rebuilding Socialist cities: reshaping urban

space and life in Soviet Russia after 1943", Centre for Urban

History, University of Leicester (18 November 2016).

Dr Rachel Hammersley, contribution to the Political Thought

in a time of Crisis, 1640-1660 conference, Folger Shakespeare

Library, Washington DC, December 2016. A summary of some of

the things she discussed in her paper can be found in the latest

post on her blog (http://www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/).

She also delivered the James H. Burns Memorial Lecture at the St

Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. Podcast available.

Dr Violetta Hionidou, “‘Αυτές οι Χιώτισσες, τις βάζανε οι γονείς

τους γιατί, δεν ξέρω για ποιο λόγο,… τις βάζανε

υπηρέτριες’:Υπηρέτριες στην Ελλάδα, 1860-1960” (“‘Those Chian

women, their parents sent them, I don’t know why, they sent

them as servants’: Female servants in Greece, 1860-1960”, Το

υπηρετικό προσωπικό στην ελληνική τέχνη, την κοινωνία και την

ιστορία. Μύθοι και πραγματικότητα, Crete, Greece (December

2016)

Prof Tim Kirk, ‘The Emergence of an Axis Intelligentsia:

intellectuals and cultural workers in south-east Europe during

World war II’, at the conference ‘Treason of the Intellectuals’, held

at Uppsala University, Sweden, 8-9 December.

Dr Thomas Rütten, ‘Mord in Waldniel, 1944? Eine

Fallstudie’ (Murder in Waldniel, 1944? A case study), University

of Düsseldorf (Department of the History, Ethics and Theory of

Medicine) in conjunction with the Mahn- und Gedenkstätte für die

Opfer nationalsozialistischer Gewaltherrschaft (Exhortation and

Memorial Space for the victims of National Socialist Tyranny), 7

December 2016.

Public Engagement Dr Joan Allen has written a press review for the

latest edition of the Revolution Papers (No 50). This

issue focuses on Dáil Éireann's enactment of the

constitution of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Dr Claudia Baldoli was appointed member of the academic board for the creation of the Museum of Fascism, Predappio (Italy). The first meetings were on 27 October and 5 December 2016.

Dr Sarah Campbell introduced former civil rights activist Bernadette Devlin at the annual Field Day

lecture in Derry, Northern Ireland, where Devlin spoke on ‘A Terrible State of Chassis’ in September 2016.

Dr Martin Farr has been busy commenting on Brexit, and its impact on the Labour leadership. He has been a guest on BBC Radio Newcastle a number of times, he published an online article on ‘Brexit and the Dead’, and gave the History Society pub lecture on Brexit and Trump in November 2016. He is also researching Margaret Thatcher’s World, and has given a number of talks on the topic.

Dr Martin Farr spoke in Parliament on David Lloyd George for Parliament Week.

Dr Ben Houston took part in the commemoration of Dr Martin Luther King’s 1967 visit to Newcastle in November. The event also launched highlights of the Freedom City programme to an invited audience of voluntary and community groups, representatives from cultural venues and other key partners from across the city, to which Ben will also be contributing.

Dr Adam Morton gave two lectures at Access to A-level days. One at Manchester Central Hall (24 Nov) one in Birmingham Carr’s Lane Centre (1

Dec). Both were on ‘Was there a mid-Tudor Crisis?’

Martin Luther King was awarded a honorary doctorate from

Newcastle University in November 1967.

Student Achievements

Former History student,

Leanne Carr, received the

Sid Chaplin prize for the

best undergraduate

dissertation in North East

Labour History at the AGM

of the North East Labour

History Society in

September 2016. Leanne

graduated in June 2016 with

a first in History. Her

dissertation was on

Easington during the miners'

strike of 1984-5 and was

based on oral history.

MA student, Caitlin Head, won the Joseph Cowen Memorial Prize for her MA

dissertation on Dr Margaret Balfour.

Two students won Research Excellence

Awards for their PhDs:

Jack Hepworth (supervisors Dr Matt Perry and Dr Sarah Campbell)

‘The Heterogeneity and Evolution of Irish Republicanism, c.1969-

c.1994'

and

Alicia Sawyer (supervisor Dr Lisa-Marie Shilito)

‘Geoarchaeology of Viking Age Icelandic

middens’ (starting January)

Dr David Lowther, who graduated with a PhD from Newcastle in December, won a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2016-2019), at Durham University for his project ‘Imagining India: Mughal Art and Colonial Knowledge Networks in the creation of Modern British Zoology, 1800 – 1858’

Publications Dr Claudia Baldoli, ‘With Rome and with Moscow: Italian Catholic

Communism and the anti-Fascist exile’, Contemporary European History,

25 (4), November 2016, pp. 619-643.

Dr Robert Dale, ‘“No longer Normal” Traumatized Red Army Veterans in

Postwar Leningrad’, in Peter Leese and Jason Crouthamel (eds), Traumatic

Memories: World War Two and After (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,

2016), pp. 119–41.

Dr Robert Dale, ‘“Being a Real Man”: Masculinities in Soviet Russia during

and after the Great Patriotic War’, in Corinna M. Peniston-Bird and Emma

Vickers (eds), Lessons of War: Gender and the Second World War (New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Dr Philip Garret, ‘A systematic review of geological evidence for Holocene

earthquakes and tsunamis along the Nankai-Suruga Trough, Japan’ in the

top-tier journal Earth Science Reviews (Vol. 159, 2016, pp. 337-357).

Dr Violetta Hionidou, ‘Popular medicine and empirics in Greece, 1900-

1950: an oral history approach’, Medical History (2016),60(4), 492-513.

Dr Violetta Hionidou, ‘Historical Demography of Greek populations’,

in Fauve-Chamoux, A; Bolovan, I; Sogner, S, eds, A Global History of

Historical Demography: Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity, History of

Historical Demography (Bern: Peter Lang, 2016), 291-300.

Dr Violetta Hionidou, “‘Ενα κυνήγι ήταν, της ζωής εναντίον του θανάτου’.

Βιώνοντας τον Λιμό στην Κατοχική Ελλάδα.” (“‘It was a race of life against

death’. Experiencing the famine in Occupied Greece”), Newspaper

Kathimerini.

Dr Joe Lawson, translation of one of the most influential Chinese books

about China's modern history, Mao Haijian's The Qing Empire and the

Opium War: Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty, came out with Cambridge

University Press.

Dr Adam Morton, Popery, Politics and Play: visual culture in

Succession Crisis England. The Seventeenth Century 2016, (ePub ahead

of Print), 1-39.

Dr Adam Morton (and Watanabe-O'Kelly H,) ed. Queens Consort, Cultural

Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800.Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.

Dr Adam Morton, Punir le pape: honte, satire et action performative dans

la polémique anticatholique anglaise au temps de la

Réforme. In: Baranova,T; Szcech,N, ed. Usages et stratćégies polémiques

en Europe au temps de l’humanisme du XIV au milieu du XVII siècle.

Berne, Germany: Peter Lang, 2016.

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Spotlight on Impact Being a public historian in an age of

commemoration: the 80th anniversary of

the Jarrow Crusade

Dr Matt Perry

I wrote the Jarrow Crusade: Protest and Legend in 2005. Since then, I’ve been treated as the

expert of this event. So the eightieth anniversary

this October has proved a busy time. It began at Monkton Stadium, Jarrow at a rally to

commemorate the Crusade. First, author and broadcaster Stuart Maconie interviewed me for a

book he is writing about the route of the march. Then, to my surprise, Jeremy Corbyn held my

book aloft during his speech and said ‘The most famous MP that Jarrow had was Ellen Wilkinson

[…] and I’ve just been reading Red Ellen Wilkinson by Matt Perry of Newcastle, it is an

amazing book.’ On the same day, the exhibition

that I curated at South Shields Art Gallery and Museum entitled Marching into History opened. (If

you haven’t seen this it is running until the end of February). In three next weeks, I was interviewed

on Radio Newcastle, Tyne Tees, Look North, for an Italian documentary on Brexit, for an Arte

documentary on The History of Britain – from Above. I spoke in Jarrow Town Hall to relatives of

Crusaders, councillors and local school children, at the Lit and Phil, and in the Newcastle

University Insights Lecture series. I did a couple

of guided tours of the exhibition for relatives of Crusaders and did three school sessions there.

Then, like magic, as happened with other anniversaries, as soon as the spotlight was

turned off, I returned to a mundane anonymity when the commemorations passed.

Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, praises Matt Perry’s recent publication

Dr Joan Allen was appointed Research Director of the Centre of

Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS).

Prof Ian Haynes, Dr Lisa-Marie Shillito and Dr Federico

Santangelo were elected members of the Arts and Humanities

Research Council Peer Review College.