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The Royal Historical Society, jointly with the Institute of Historical Research, awarded an RHS Centenary Fellowship to Adele Curness, for research on ‘Imagined Calabria: Narratives of Power and Community in Italo-Greek Hagiography’. The RHS’s , alongside the Marshall Fellowship, is awarded to early career historians, providing funding for one-year Fellowships tenable at the Institute of Historical Research in London.

Adele is studying for a DPhil in Byzantine History at St John’s, where she also completed an MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies in 2017. She previously studied for a BA in History at Brasenose College, Oxford.

She says, ‘my thesis is, at its core, about stories and how they shape communities. It is a study of a corpus of hagiographical texts which were produced in southern Italy between the tenth and twelfth centuries about Greek-speaking holy men who lived in the Byzantine province of Calabria between the ninth and twelfth centuries.’ .

Congratulations also to ��ɫ����TV’s alumnus Robert Thompson, who was runner-up for the Rees Davies Prize, awarded to the best dissertation submitted as part of a postgraduate Master’s degree. While studying at the University of Southampton, Robert wrote a dissertation entitled ‘”The true physicians here are the padres”: British Christian Army Chaplains and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen’.

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