Shahmima Akhtar - Press/Media - University of Birmingham

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Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I welcome graduate students working on race, migration and empire in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. Further, I am happy to supervise on projects related to visual and cultural histories whether looking at world's fairs, exhibitions or display in any form.

Research activity per year

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Broadcast of interview with Nadifa Mohamed for ‘Britain’s Human Zoos’, TV Documentary, Channel 4 (4 October 2023) discussing 19th and 20th century ‘ethnographic entertainment’.
Akhtar, S.
4/10/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Broadcast of interview with Gurinder Chada for ‘Queen Victoria and the British Maharaja’, TV Documentary, Channel 4 (August 2022) discussing the British Empire, the Victorian monarchy and scientific racism.
Akhtar, S.
8/08/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Broadcast of interview for ‘1,000 years of History: Ireland’, TV Documentary, Channel 5 Select, Raise the Roof Productions (November 2021) discussing historic exhibitions of the Irish in world’s fairs.
Akhtar, S.
8/11/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Broadcast of interview for ‘Walking Victorian Britain’, TV Documentary, Channel 5 Select, Rumpus Media Limited (October 2021) discussing back-to-back houses in Birmingham.
Akhtar, S.
4/10/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Broadcast of interview for ‘Walking Wartime Britain’, TV Documentary, Channel 5 Select, Rumpus Media Limited (September 2021) discussing post-war migration to Britain and London Central Mosque.
Akhtar, S.
13/09/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media