In May 2024, History Professor Stephen Brooke published his new book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City which was recently celebrated by The Conversation as one of the top 5 best non-fiction books of 2024 according to their experts. Recommended by Keiran Connell, a senior lecturer in contemporary British history at Queen’s […]
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Michael Kater, from the Department of History, who has received the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards' Irving Abella Book Award in History for his book, After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany. The book provides a detailed history of culture in West Germany after 1945, looking at everything […]
Department of History Professor Thabit Abdullah is the creator and host of the podcast, Afaq fi Tarikh al-Iraq (Horizons in Iraq’s History). Each episode features an interview with a historian and covers various topics in the history of Iraq from the early medieval pre-Islamic period to the present. The podcast’s primary audience are Iraqis and the […]
David S. Koffman, the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and Associate Professor in the Department of History, co-edited and contributed to a new publication, Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation, which spotlights a conversation between two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of […]
The Department of History is happy to announce that Dr Aitana Guia, presently Associate Professor, California State University, Fullerton, will be joining the department as the inaugural MacKenzie-Papineau Memorial Chair in Modern Spanish History on 1 July 2025. Dr. Guia is an expert on 20th century Spanish History with extensive experience teaching the Spanish Civil […]
Professor Stephen Brooke presents a significant and revealing new view of London in the 1980s in his book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City. Recently published by Oxford University Press, London, 1984 explores two conflicting cities during a tumultuous time in London. One side established on radical politics while the other side […]
A collection of podcasts and projects by students in the History Program including the Public History Certificate Program, these projects showcase the theory, methodologies and professional practices you would encounter among historians in a professional environment. Quick Links Projects and Initiatives Study Abroad Founders College Career Opportunities
The Research Seminar Series features papers, discussion and works-in-progress by the department's faculty and graduate students, notably it foregrounds new research. Recently, these seminars have been held online and have featured research in progress by 24 faculty and graduate students. The Department Research Seminar Series is presented regularly during the academic year between September and […]
Published in 2014, this documentary series commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War One, the professors of the Department of History of York University examine various aspects of the war and the role Canada played in it. Did you know income tax in Canada is a direct result of the First World War? That we […]
The Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Environmental History Lecture is an annual speaking event hosted by the Department of History at York University. It is generously supported by two of the History Department’s founding environmental history professors, H.V. Nelles and Richard Hoffmann and it honours the memory of the late Elinor Melville, our colleague and leading researcher in the […]