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Many thanks to those who have submitted proposals for individual papers or for panels for the 2013 WCBS meeting in Kansas City, October 3-5. The conference committee has recommended we extend the deadline to 30 June in order to give … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Michelle Tusan (UNLV) on the publication of her book: Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East (University of California Press, 2012)  Today the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of … Continue reading →

The Bob McJimsey Prize, a $500 cash prize, is awarded by the WCBS for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the association’s annual meeting.  For the 2012 meeting held in Las Vegas, the jury is pleased to … Continue reading →

Kansas City, MO is the location of the 2013 WCBS.  We will be meeting at the Marriott Country Club Plaza, October 3-5.  Click the ‘Meetings’ link above for more details as they become available.

Any current graduate student who presented a paper to the 2012 WCBS conference in Las Vegas is invited to submit their unedited script to the prize committee for consideration for the Bob McJimsey Prize. The award includes a citation and … Continue reading →

Congratulations to WCBS President Jamie L. Bronstein and Andrew T. Harris on the publication of their new textbook, Empire, State and Society: Britain Since 1830 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

Congratulations to Tobias Harper, a PhD candidate at Columbia University who is this year’s winner of the Bob McJimsey Prize. Mr. Harper’s paper, “`Bringing Together’, Falling Apart: The Post-War British Honours System, 1945-1980″ was delivered at the 2011 joint meeting … Continue reading →

The NACBS, in collaboration with the Huntington Library, offers annually the NACBS-HUNTINGTON LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP to aid in dissertation research in British Studies using the collections of the library. The amount of the fellowship is $2500. A requirement for holding the … Continue reading →

Marjorie Levine-Clark’s Presidential Address to the WCBS, “The Politics of Preference: Masculinity, Marital Status and Unemployment Relief in Post-First World War Britain” was published in Cultural and Social History: the journal of the Social History Society 7:2 (2010): 233-252. Louis … Continue reading →

The meeting in Austin, Texas in September drew a healthy crowd of scholars from the UK, the USA and Canada, with 20 panels, two plenary sessions and 80+ participants.  As is our customary practice, one of our plenary speakers was … Continue reading →