St Cross College, Oxford

Rana Mitter has received a Leverhulme Prize in History and was runner-up for the 2005 Longman/History Today Book of the Year award for his book A bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World.

Harold Jaffe has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in the United States.

David Warrell had been appointed Thailand Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant by King Bhumibol Adulyade. He has has been awarded the Guthrie Medal of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Mary Kingsley Centenary Medal of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He has been elected "Profesor Honorario" Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Puru. He delivered the Hull Grundy lecture and was presented with the Hull Grundy medal of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Royal College of Physicians.

Helena Hamerow has been awarded an AHRC Resource Enhancement Award for the Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale: an online database of Anglo-Saxon graves and grave goods from Kent.

Michael Parker was made Professor of Bioethics in October 2004.

Diarmaid MacCulloch's book "The Reformation" has won the 2004 National Book Critics' Circle of America Award for General Non-Fiction.

Emilie Savage-Smith has been elected President of the Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science and has received an Arts and Humanities Reasearch Council (AHRC) grant for a project entitled The Book of Curiosities: An early 11th-century Arabic cosmology.