Emeritus Professor Bernard Capp joins Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, A S Byatt, Julian Fellowes, Philippa Gregory, Anne Widdecombe, and Clarissa Dickson Wright in exploring the differences between the Cavaliers, representing a Britain of panache, pleasure and individuality, and the Roundheads, representing modesty, discipline, equality and state intervention. The show aired on BBC4 on Tuesday 15th May 2012, and can be viewed for the next two weeks on the BBC iPlayer.
 

The Institute of Advanced Studies is inviting applications for the Warwick Global Research Fellowships. If you might be interested in these posts, please read the Departmental Guidelines for further information on how the Department of History will conduct the nomination process.

According to the Health Survey for England, it is generally ethnic minorities in the UK who experience a lower standard of health than the overall population. Evidence suggests that the poorer economic position of BME groups is the main factor driving ethnic health inequalities and yet, despite WHO and NHS initiatives, successive governments have not managed to tackle this issue.

Following on from a series of IDEA-network events held last year, Roberta Bivins and the Industry and Parliamentary Trust co-ordinated a policy event dinner on the 21st March 2012 in order to review the evidence on ethnic minority health and reflect on what can be done by business and government to address the challenges. The report from this dinner has recently been published (many thanks to Martin Moore, PhD student at the Department of History/Centre for the History of Medicine, for his collaboration) and is now available in print and online from the IPT.