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Chris Wickham (1950-2026): A Portrait
Chris Wickham’s work spanned an epic breadth of space and time. His major works are dazzling analyses of the medieval Mediterranean as well as of the Europe beyond it, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries, ranging from Egypt to Iceland. And yet for all the grand scale of some of his books, everything with him began with local ties and communities.
Diệu Ly Hoàng (DPhil History of Art) Named One of Berlin’s ‘100 Faces of Science’
Trinity College and History of Art DPhil student Dieu Ly Hoang has been selected as one of the 100 Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft — “100 Faces of Berlin Science” — an annual feature highlighting researchers who are shaping the intellectual life of Berlin and beyond.
Dr Michael Odijie awarded AHRC funding for research into unfree labour in Africa’s cocoa belt
Unfree Labour and Local Resistance in Africa’s Cocoa Belt, 1890–1990 will investigate the relationship between the expansion of commercial cocoa production and forms of unfree and coercive labour across Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Cameroon.
