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D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler
Research by Professor Richard Aldrich of Warwick鈥檚 Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) played a central part in a new Channel 4 documentary, broadcast this weekend, exploring how British intelligence enlisted the Royal Family as part of its scheme to mislead the Nazis about plans for the liberation of Europe.
Earliest known Mariner鈥檚 Astrolabe research published today to go in Guinness Book of Records
Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada Ship that was part of Vasco da Gama鈥檚 second voyage to India in 1502-1503 as the oldest in the world, and have separately certified a ship鈥檚 bell (dated 1498) recovered from the same wreck site also as the oldest in the world.
Dr William Barylo and Dr Martha McGill awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Dr William Barylo, Department of Sociology, and Dr Martha McGill, Department of History, have been awarded Postdoctoral Fellowships by the British Academy to pursue their research on 鈥淭he Diaspora Strikes Back: lived religion, arts and activism among Sikh and Muslim millennials in Europe鈥 and "Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in early Modern Britain" respectively.
Warwick academics shortlisted for AHRC Best Doctoral or Early Career Research medal
Dr Anna Harpin and Dr Rachel Bennett from the 天美传媒 have been shortlisted for the Health Humanities Medal, a new national award led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in association with the Wellcome Trust.
Professor Hilary Marland shortlisted for AHRC's Health Humanities Medal
Professor Hilary Marland, of the 天美传媒's Centre for the History of Medicine, has been shortlisted for the Health Humanities Medal, a new national award led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in association with the Wellcome Trust.
Professor Peter Marshall elected as British Academy Fellow
Professor Peter Marshall, of the 天美传媒鈥檚 Department of History, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.