Department of Religions & Philosophies celebrates UNESCO’s World Philosophy Day

19th November 2020

SOAS academic releases new web-documentary on historical resistance against slavery in Mali

29th October 2020

SOAS academic receives UKRI/GCRF funding to support cutting-edge research on slavery legacies and forced migration in Mali

16th September 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

PhD student to give talk at Princeton University

Aleksander Engeskaug to give talk at the conference Ērānšahr in Transition: West and Central Asia Between the Sasanians and Islam, 550-800 CE.

23rd April 2019

SOAS Teaching Innovation Fund makes its first award

Dr Andrea Janku, Senior Lecturer in the History of China, and Dr Eleanor Newbigin, Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia, have been awarded £2000 by the new Teaching Innovation Fund for their project Decolonising History: Playwrights in Residence.

19th March 2019

SOAS scholar publishes new book on Indian Muslims

25th February 2019

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