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➡️ What is it like to study History at Cambridge?
➡️ Why does History matter?
➡️ What are we looking for in potential students?
Get an inside look at why History at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk stands out ⬇️
🔎Interested? Here’s how to apply:
www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/hist...
➡️ Why does History matter?
➡️ What are we looking for in potential students?
Get an inside look at why History at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk stands out ⬇️
🔎Interested? Here’s how to apply:
www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/hist...
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📣 British Academy Early Career Researchers Network launch event
Are you an Early Career Researcher? You are invited to the network launch on 24 Nov from 10.30am-5pm at the Cambridge Union, to hear about the fantastic opportunities the network offers
Join and register at https://bit.ly/43byupL
Are you an Early Career Researcher? You are invited to the network launch on 24 Nov from 10.30am-5pm at the Cambridge Union, to hear about the fantastic opportunities the network offers
Join and register at https://bit.ly/43byupL
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
📣 British Academy Early Career Researchers Network launch event
Are you an Early Career Researcher? You are invited to the network launch on 24 Nov from 10.30am-5pm at the Cambridge Union, to hear about the fantastic opportunities the network offers
Join and register at https://bit.ly/43byupL
Are you an Early Career Researcher? You are invited to the network launch on 24 Nov from 10.30am-5pm at the Cambridge Union, to hear about the fantastic opportunities the network offers
Join and register at https://bit.ly/43byupL
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Join our research group "Caste as Practice" on 7 November, 4–6 PM (UK time), for a critical conversation on the caste census and the upcoming Bihar elections, featuring Trina Vithayathil, Christophe Guilmoto, YogendraYadav and Jusmeet S. Sihra. Register here: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join our research group "Caste as Practice" on 7 November, 4–6 PM (UK time), for a critical conversation on the caste census and the upcoming Bihar elections, featuring Trina Vithayathil, Christophe Guilmoto, YogendraYadav and Jusmeet S. Sihra. Register here: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A successful fieldtrip to the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park, staffed by the enthusiastic NRC volunteers 🙌
Dr Arthur Asseraf and his Special Subject students left inspired by the history, development and future of radio communications.
@arthurasseraf.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social
Dr Arthur Asseraf and his Special Subject students left inspired by the history, development and future of radio communications.
@arthurasseraf.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A successful fieldtrip to the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park, staffed by the enthusiastic NRC volunteers 🙌
Dr Arthur Asseraf and his Special Subject students left inspired by the history, development and future of radio communications.
@arthurasseraf.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social
Dr Arthur Asseraf and his Special Subject students left inspired by the history, development and future of radio communications.
@arthurasseraf.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social
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New event! Britain and the Balkans – 30 years after the Dayton Agreement
Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans.
🗓️20th Nov, 17:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ
Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans.
🗓️20th Nov, 17:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
New event! Britain and the Balkans – 30 years after the Dayton Agreement
Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans.
🗓️20th Nov, 17:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ
Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans.
🗓️20th Nov, 17:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ
We are sad to report the death of our colleague Professor Ronald Hyam (1936-2025).
A former president of @magdalenecollege.bsky.social, college archivist & wide-ranging historian of the British empire & government, Professor Hyam was an active member of the History Faculty from 1960 to retirement.
A former president of @magdalenecollege.bsky.social, college archivist & wide-ranging historian of the British empire & government, Professor Hyam was an active member of the History Faculty from 1960 to retirement.
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We are sad to report the death of our colleague Professor Ronald Hyam (1936-2025).
A former president of @magdalenecollege.bsky.social, college archivist & wide-ranging historian of the British empire & government, Professor Hyam was an active member of the History Faculty from 1960 to retirement.
A former president of @magdalenecollege.bsky.social, college archivist & wide-ranging historian of the British empire & government, Professor Hyam was an active member of the History Faculty from 1960 to retirement.
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Great opportunity for history postgrads to do some public-facing work with their research!
If you’re a postgraduate student or ECR researching any aspect of post-1914 European history (including the UK and Europe’s overseas empires), we’d love to hear from you. To submit a blog idea, or for more information about New Voices, please email cehnewvoices@gmail.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Great opportunity for history postgrads to do some public-facing work with their research!
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📣Out now on #firstview!
Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester'
#Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester'
#Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📣Out now on #firstview!
Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester'
#Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester'
#Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Very exciting new seminar series on Women's History starting in Cambridge next Tuesday!
Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
October 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Very exciting new seminar series on Women's History starting in Cambridge next Tuesday!
Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies.
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
Vol. 43 Núm. 2 (2025): El modo de producción campesino: un replanteamiento de la sociedad rural de la Europa altomedieval | Studia Historica. Historia Medieval
Con la colaboración de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología | Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies.
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️
Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it as if it's happening all over again?
Researchers - incl. Professor of Modern History, Alexandra Walsham - have launched a public survey to help unlock the secrets of vivid memory & find ways to help better recall past experiences.
Add your memories ⬇️
Researchers - incl. Professor of Modern History, Alexandra Walsham - have launched a public survey to help unlock the secrets of vivid memory & find ways to help better recall past experiences.
Add your memories ⬇️
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it as if it's happening all over again?
Researchers - incl. Professor of Modern History, Alexandra Walsham - have launched a public survey to help unlock the secrets of vivid memory & find ways to help better recall past experiences.
Add your memories ⬇️
Researchers - incl. Professor of Modern History, Alexandra Walsham - have launched a public survey to help unlock the secrets of vivid memory & find ways to help better recall past experiences.
Add your memories ⬇️
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October 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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⏰SIX DAYS LEFT to apply for the Cambridge US history job⏰
Thanks to everyone who's already applied; if you're considering an application, NB that we will NOT contact referees unless you're longlisted so you can throw your hat into the ring with minimal hassle networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
Thanks to everyone who's already applied; if you're considering an application, NB that we will NOT contact referees unless you're longlisted so you can throw your hat into the ring with minimal hassle networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net
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October 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
⏰SIX DAYS LEFT to apply for the Cambridge US history job⏰
Thanks to everyone who's already applied; if you're considering an application, NB that we will NOT contact referees unless you're longlisted so you can throw your hat into the ring with minimal hassle networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
Thanks to everyone who's already applied; if you're considering an application, NB that we will NOT contact referees unless you're longlisted so you can throw your hat into the ring with minimal hassle networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
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The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows.
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows.
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history
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Happy to have facilitated this! Oliver Rathkolb of @univie.ac.at presents on 'Controlled Freedom: The Allied Forces in Vienna, 1945-55' to @camgeopolitics.bsky.social and @camhistory.bsky.social at @caiuscollege.bsky.social.
@austriainuk.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social
RSVP below! 👇👇👇
@austriainuk.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social
RSVP below! 👇👇👇
New event! Controlled Freedom: The Allied Forces in Vienna from 1945
Hosted by CfG & the Modern European History Seminar, Prof Oliver Rathkolb will discuss his newly released book.
🗓️Wed 5th Nov, 17:30-19:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
🖋️Reg & info: bit.ly/471fjkT
Hosted by CfG & the Modern European History Seminar, Prof Oliver Rathkolb will discuss his newly released book.
🗓️Wed 5th Nov, 17:30-19:00
🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C
🖋️Reg & info: bit.ly/471fjkT
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy to have facilitated this! Oliver Rathkolb of @univie.ac.at presents on 'Controlled Freedom: The Allied Forces in Vienna, 1945-55' to @camgeopolitics.bsky.social and @camhistory.bsky.social at @caiuscollege.bsky.social.
@austriainuk.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social
RSVP below! 👇👇👇
@austriainuk.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social
RSVP below! 👇👇👇
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Join us for the inaugural POLIS Lecture.
Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation.
🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm
📍Alison Richard Building
Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk
Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation.
🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm
📍Alison Richard Building
Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Join us for the inaugural POLIS Lecture.
Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation.
🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm
📍Alison Richard Building
Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk
Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation.
🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm
📍Alison Richard Building
Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk
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A final reminder that our first meeting of Term is tonight at 5pm! If you're keen to join us online, be sure to join the mailing list before noon to make sure you get the link!
lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/h...
lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/h...
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A final reminder that our first meeting of Term is tonight at 5pm! If you're keen to join us online, be sure to join the mailing list before noon to make sure you get the link!
lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/h...
lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/h...
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If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
History and Politics Seminar Series | Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
Michaelmas Term Seminars All meetings will take place in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College on Wednesdays at 5:30pm, except for the conference on 13 November, which will be held at Churchill ...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
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Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.
New article (OA): Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social on 'Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain'
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Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain*
Abstract. This article explores how Britons envisaged and planned for the end of working life across the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how
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October 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.
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📢Check out this term's bulletin of research events relating to Italy happening in Cambridge!
October 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
📢Check out this term's bulletin of research events relating to Italy happening in Cambridge!
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📣Out now on #firstview!
Jack Haughton (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Dispelling ‘das Herbert Butterfieldproblem’: A Rereading of The Whig Interpretation of History'
#IntellectualHistory #Progress #Positive 20thc 🗃️
👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Jack Haughton (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Dispelling ‘das Herbert Butterfieldproblem’: A Rereading of The Whig Interpretation of History'
#IntellectualHistory #Progress #Positive 20thc 🗃️
👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📣Out now on #firstview!
Jack Haughton (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Dispelling ‘das Herbert Butterfieldproblem’: A Rereading of The Whig Interpretation of History'
#IntellectualHistory #Progress #Positive 20thc 🗃️
👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Jack Haughton (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Dispelling ‘das Herbert Butterfieldproblem’: A Rereading of The Whig Interpretation of History'
#IntellectualHistory #Progress #Positive 20thc 🗃️
👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!
We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!
[Please PM us for a plain text termcard]
We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!
[Please PM us for a plain text termcard]
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!
We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!
[Please PM us for a plain text termcard]
We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!
[Please PM us for a plain text termcard]
👏 Dr Ying Dai has won the International Economic History Association prize for best PhD thesis on 20th & 21st-century economic history, globally, over the last 3 years.
The @camunicampop.bsky.social student's innovative research opens new opportunities to understand the history of labour in China ⬇️
The @camunicampop.bsky.social student's innovative research opens new opportunities to understand the history of labour in China ⬇️
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
👏 Dr Ying Dai has won the International Economic History Association prize for best PhD thesis on 20th & 21st-century economic history, globally, over the last 3 years.
The @camunicampop.bsky.social student's innovative research opens new opportunities to understand the history of labour in China ⬇️
The @camunicampop.bsky.social student's innovative research opens new opportunities to understand the history of labour in China ⬇️
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⛪ 👨👨 Next week we’ll be proud to welcome John Arnold from @camhistory.bsky.social , who’ll discuss his recent research into the changing expressions of lay piety found in medieval southern France.
October 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
⛪ 👨👨 Next week we’ll be proud to welcome John Arnold from @camhistory.bsky.social , who’ll discuss his recent research into the changing expressions of lay piety found in medieval southern France.
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Next week on October 15th, Christopher Clark (@camhistory.bsky.social), Susanne Bauer (@bbaw.bsky.social), @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social, and I will present our four newly published books at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Each book sheds light on a different facet of 19th Century Prussian history.
October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Next week on October 15th, Christopher Clark (@camhistory.bsky.social), Susanne Bauer (@bbaw.bsky.social), @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social, and I will present our four newly published books at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Each book sheds light on a different facet of 19th Century Prussian history.