To mark 50 years since our foundation in 1969, we have made a short film about research at IASH, profiling two recent projects by 2018-19 EURIAS Junior Fellow Dr Isabel Kusche and 2018-19 Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow Dr Elizabeth Ford. Dr Kusche reflects on her investigations of big data analytics and the relationship between politicians and voters, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Author and critic Dame Rebecca West was born on this day in 1892. At the age of ten, she lived with her mother and sisters at 2 Hope Park Square for a short time (Glendinning 1987; Palusci 1992) before moving to Buccleuch Place to attend George Watson’s Ladies College (Lownie 2005). This tenement is now IASH’s main entrance.
We are delighted to announce a brand new Fellowship at IASH: the three-month CSMCH-IASH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary History is intended to encourage outstanding early-career interdisciplinary research and scholarly collaboration in the broad field of modern and contemporary history.