Departmental News

Launch of a new module for A-Level history teachers

14th December 2018

SOAS leads a British Academy Writing Workshop in Myanmar

4th December 2018

SOAS scholar awarded £300K from British Academy to research Life Stories of the China-Myanmar Jade Trade

Dr Mandy Sadan, Reader in the History of South East Asia, has been awarded £300,000 from the British Academy Sustainable Development Programme for a two-year project called 'Sustainable Lives in Scarred Landscapes: Heritage, Environment, and Violence in the China-Myanmar Jade Trade'.

29th October 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

Dr Yi Li, Teaching Fellow/Programme Development Manager in Online and Distance Learning

Launch of an online portal for A Level teaching materials: a collaboration between SOAS historians and OCR

18th June 2018

SOAS scholar awarded Research Fellowship by Leverhulme Trust

Professor Gurharpal Singh of the School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London has been awarded a Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for a project on Sikhs and the Partition of India.

17th April 2018

SOAS rises again in QS rankings

SOAS University of London has risen among the world’s elite institutions in the 2018 QS World University Rankings with four of its subject areas across a broad range of disciplines ranked amongst the world’s top 25.

28th February 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

SOAS scholar’s research informs British Museum exhibition on Japanese artist Hokusai

Together with colleagues at the British Museum, Dr Angus Lockyer, Lecturer in the Department of History at SOAS University of London, is engaged in research on Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, which has underpinned a major new exhibition at the British Museum, opening this week.

23rd May 2017

SOAS enhances place among London’s elite universities in 2018 Guardian Guide

SOAS University of London has risen 5 places to 25th in the latest Guardian University Guide and is also rated in the UK’s top 15 for students’ satisfaction with teaching.

16th May 2017

SOAS doctoral student speaks at special meeting of the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

25th April 2017

SOAS academic publishes new volume on Assyriology

Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian at SOAS University of London has edited a new volume on Assyrian archival texts.

28th February 2017

SOAS scholar publishes new book on the history of the School for SOAS’s centenary

A new book looking at the development and history of SOAS University of London has been published to celebrate SOAS’s centenary.

14th October 2016

SOAS academic speaks at Curious? Futures festival

SOAS University of London took part in Curious? Futures last month, a festival fusing science, art and culture.

11th August 2016

SOAS scholar secures British Library grant for archival project in Western Mali

Dr Marie Rodet, Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS, University of London has been awarded a British Library Endangered Archives Programme grant for an archival project focusing on slave emancipation in Western Mali.

10th June 2016