SOAS History blog

4th May 2021

Prof. Almut Hintze on BBC News to discuss Jiyo Parsi program

12th March 2021

Walter Rodney UG Dissertation Award 2019-2020

8th March 2021

SOAS academic awarded funding as part of UKRI’s GCRF Collective Programme

20th November 2020

Walter Rodney Prize

4th February 2020

In Memoriam: Nils Göran David Malmqvist 馬悦然 (1924–2019)

Remembering Nils Göran David Malmqvist 馬悦然 (1924–2019)

11th November 2019

HRP UG Decolonise History Project

5th September 2019

In Memoriam: Prof. Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann 1941—2019

Until his very last days, Gary Tiedemann busied himself producing conference papers, journal articles and book chapters, some of which reappeared in Chinese or German translation.

20th August 2019

SOAS to host public masterclass series on Asian Art with leading experts

SOAS University of London, in partnership with the Asian Civilisations Museum, has launched a series of public masterclasses on transcultural issues in the arts of Asia.

19th March 2019

Launch of a new module for A-Level history teachers

14th December 2018

Muslim students self-censor on UK campuses, according to initial findings from SOAS research

The preliminary findings from a major three-year SOAS research project looking at Islam on UK campuses has found that many Muslim students are self-censoring and disengaging from UK campus life as a result of the UK Government’s current counter-terrorism strategy Prevent.

10th September 2018

HRP UG Dissertation Prizes

The School of History, Religions and Philosophy is proud to announce the inaugural round of awardees for the new UG dissertation prizes. The awards went to James McGrail (Study of Religions), Leone Goodall (History), with George Loftus as runner up, and Tayba Azam who was offered the prize for Innovation and Creativity in Historical Writing for her oral history project on the memory of the Partition of 1971. Congratulations to our first awardees!

10th July 2018

SOAS academic co-edits book exploring breakdown of trust between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in West

Dr Amina Yaqin, Senior Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS University of London, has co-edited the book Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions with Palgrave MacMillan which explores the themes of trust and multiculturalism across a range of perspectives, employing insights from political science, sociology, literature, ethnography and cultural studies.

12th June 2018

SOAS scholar awarded Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for project on Ancient Mesopotamian mythology

The Leverhulme Trust has granted Professor Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian at SOAS University of London a Major Research Fellowship for a new project on Ancient Mesopotamian mythology.

9th January 2018

SOAS scholar awarded grant of £300k for project on resilience in West African communities

Dr Marie Rodet, Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa, has been awarded a grant of £300,000 by the ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Fund 2016-17.

31st October 2017