FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES

“He came to believe the huge killing of the Civil War could only be justified if it had a moral purpose – if slavery was abolished,” says Professor Iwan Morgan (UCL Institute of the Americas). 

The Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference will take place this year on 20-21 May on the topic of 'Forming Material Egypt' and a call for papers has now been announced.

Joe Flatman is contributing to a one-day event about Archaeology on TV at the British Film Institute (BFI) on 19 January.

Dr Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (click image to view high resolution version).

Genetic differences are significantly associated with the likelihood that people take on managerial responsibilities, according to new research from UCL (University College London).

For £349K for a research project on “Easing Constraints for Small Firm Expansion: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda”.

Jago Cooper, Institute alumnus and now Curator of the Americas at the British Museum, will be presenting the first of his four-part television series 'Lost Kingdoms of South America' on BBC4 this evening.

Rodney Harrison is General Editor of the new Journal of Contemporary Archaeology for which a call for papers is announced.

Collaborative research on the Terracotta Army undertaken by Institute staff and Chinese colleagues features as one of the top archaeology stories of 2012.

Research undertaken by Susanna Harris while a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Archaeology is currently one of the top articles in the European Journal of Archaeology.

The Voices in (and around) the Museum Seminar Series organised by the UCL Mellon Programme and Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies has now been published by JCMS.