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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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🎙 NEW EPISODE: “What plume of feathers is he?” — Love’s Labour’s Lost
Feathers signaled wealth, rank, romance, and sometimes ridiculous vanity. This week, Professor Ulinka Rublack @CamHistory explains about plumed hats and the bold identities they created.
🎧 Listen here → cassidycash.com/ep395
Feathers signaled wealth, rank, romance, and sometimes ridiculous vanity. This week, Professor Ulinka Rublack @CamHistory explains about plumed hats and the bold identities they created.
🎧 Listen here → cassidycash.com/ep395
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎙 NEW EPISODE: “What plume of feathers is he?” — Love’s Labour’s Lost
Feathers signaled wealth, rank, romance, and sometimes ridiculous vanity. This week, Professor Ulinka Rublack @CamHistory explains about plumed hats and the bold identities they created.
🎧 Listen here → cassidycash.com/ep395
Feathers signaled wealth, rank, romance, and sometimes ridiculous vanity. This week, Professor Ulinka Rublack @CamHistory explains about plumed hats and the bold identities they created.
🎧 Listen here → cassidycash.com/ep395
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Want to know how to move your ideas beyond academia to shape society? 🧰
Learn from leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences who have successfully translated research into real-world products
5 Dec 2025, 12.30-2.30pm
🎟️ Register at bit.ly/3WQVN4M
Learn from leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences who have successfully translated research into real-world products
5 Dec 2025, 12.30-2.30pm
🎟️ Register at bit.ly/3WQVN4M
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Want to know how to move your ideas beyond academia to shape society? 🧰
Learn from leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences who have successfully translated research into real-world products
5 Dec 2025, 12.30-2.30pm
🎟️ Register at bit.ly/3WQVN4M
Learn from leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences who have successfully translated research into real-world products
5 Dec 2025, 12.30-2.30pm
🎟️ Register at bit.ly/3WQVN4M
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We look forward to welcoming you *today* Thurs 13 Nov for the Core Seminar in Economic and Social History, at 5:15 PM in St John's Lightfoot Room. Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester) will discuss: 'War and prices: austerity and the cost of living index in Britain (c. 1939-1950)'.
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We look forward to welcoming you *today* Thurs 13 Nov for the Core Seminar in Economic and Social History, at 5:15 PM in St John's Lightfoot Room. Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester) will discuss: 'War and prices: austerity and the cost of living index in Britain (c. 1939-1950)'.
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Join us next week, Tues 18th Nov for our second meeting of term. Author and journalist Mark O'Connell will be in conversation with the Guardian's Ireland Correspondent Rory Carroll. All welcome, refreshments will be served.
5pm at the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College
5pm at the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Join us next week, Tues 18th Nov for our second meeting of term. Author and journalist Mark O'Connell will be in conversation with the Guardian's Ireland Correspondent Rory Carroll. All welcome, refreshments will be served.
5pm at the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College
5pm at the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College
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The Legacies of Enslavement Initiative invites you to the launch of Nicolas Bell Romero's The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery - a brilliant overview of Cambridge's links to enslavement. Tuesday 18th Nov, sign up here: tinyurl.com/mpnjrz3m @camhistory.bsky.social
Book Launch: The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
Join us for the launch of this ground breaking book by Dr Nicolas Bell-Romero followed by a discussion of its key themes.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The Legacies of Enslavement Initiative invites you to the launch of Nicolas Bell Romero's The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery - a brilliant overview of Cambridge's links to enslavement. Tuesday 18th Nov, sign up here: tinyurl.com/mpnjrz3m @camhistory.bsky.social
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Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you?
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you?
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
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We are pleased to announce our next speaker for this term's seminar series! Join us on 18th November for Dr Lorenzo Posocco's talk on his new book.
Location 📍:Sociology Seminar Room,
Date and time 🕕:12:30-2pm
Location 📍:Sociology Seminar Room,
Date and time 🕕:12:30-2pm
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We are pleased to announce our next speaker for this term's seminar series! Join us on 18th November for Dr Lorenzo Posocco's talk on his new book.
Location 📍:Sociology Seminar Room,
Date and time 🕕:12:30-2pm
Location 📍:Sociology Seminar Room,
Date and time 🕕:12:30-2pm
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Applications now open 🎓
Spend 9 weeks at Cambridge University with the CRASSH & @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social, supporting scholars from India in the arts, humanities, and heritage conservation
Funding includes travel, accommodation & research expenses
Apply by 19 Jan 2026
bit.ly/3tw6OuI
Spend 9 weeks at Cambridge University with the CRASSH & @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social, supporting scholars from India in the arts, humanities, and heritage conservation
Funding includes travel, accommodation & research expenses
Apply by 19 Jan 2026
bit.ly/3tw6OuI
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Applications now open 🎓
Spend 9 weeks at Cambridge University with the CRASSH & @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social, supporting scholars from India in the arts, humanities, and heritage conservation
Funding includes travel, accommodation & research expenses
Apply by 19 Jan 2026
bit.ly/3tw6OuI
Spend 9 weeks at Cambridge University with the CRASSH & @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social, supporting scholars from India in the arts, humanities, and heritage conservation
Funding includes travel, accommodation & research expenses
Apply by 19 Jan 2026
bit.ly/3tw6OuI
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If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
Charles Parker Prize | Showcase Your Audio Talent — Charles Parker Archive Trust
Discover top student audio features and enter the Charles Parker Prize for a chance to broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
www.cpatrust.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
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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