Report calling for a review of the Equality Act presented to 10 Downing Street

Dr Suriyah Bi was invited to present her report, “The Equality Act 12 years on” to 10 Downing Street on 18 July 2022 follow the launch event in Parliament.

28th July 2022

Contribute to new SOAS research project: Partition in India and Britain

Did you or your family experience the 1947 Partition? We would like to find out how it affected your life or how British presence in India may have shaped the wider family in the longer term. 

24th June 2022

AHRC grant awarded to Navtej Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin for VR Border Crossings project

Navtej Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin have been awarded £40,322 by the AHRC for their research project, Border Crossings: Exploring Community and History through Virtual Reality at the 75th Anniversary of the Partition. 

27th May 2022

Professor Catherine Hezser awarded British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship

Catherine Hezser, Professor of Jewish Studies, has been granted a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year.

21st April 2022

Summer School: Discover what life was like in Iraq 4,000 years ago

22nd February 2022

Family Histories of Migration - with Azeem Rajulawalla, Tara Bhat, Saffa Khalil, and Andreas Bowen, this coming Thursday 24 Feb, 5-6.30pm GMT

22nd February 2022

British Library endangered archives Dr Marie Rodet helped restore now available online

Dr Marie Rodet, Reader in the History of Africa, collaborated with the British Library Endangered Archives Project in 2018-19 to help restore the archival collection of the administrative district of Kita, Mali.

14th February 2022

Launch of two new summer school courses

17th January 2022

''The Coalescence of Arabic, Turkic, and Persian Spheres (c. 900–1900)'

13th December 2021

Walter Rodney PG dissertation awards 2020-2021

6th December 2021

Dr Marie Rodet receives funding for co-production of a mobile game against slavery and for peace in Mali

22nd November 2021

Dr Alison Scott-Baumann awarded research fellowship from The Academy for Islam in Research and Society

8th November 2021

SOAS History Blog Black History Month Contributors' Panel ; 21 October 5-6:30pm

20th October 2021

SOAS Graduate wins HBKU’s Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization Undergraduate Essay Competition

2nd August 2021

Walter Rodney UG dissertation awards 2020-2021 and PG dissertation award 2019-2020

21st July 2021