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Very exciting new seminar series on Women's History starting in Cambridge next Tuesday!
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🔗 Register for free tickets:
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Women's History Seminar series at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Lecture 1: 'Disabled Women, the Labour State and Enterprise in 20th Century Britain' by Professor Lucy Delap
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
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The Julius Calendar and Hymnal, calendar page for August: farm workers harvesting corn. British Library, Cotton Julius A. VI, f.6v
In 'The Peasant Mode Of Production In The Early Middle Ages', they explore Wickham's concept of the "peasant mode of production" highlighting increasing evidence of economic complexity in early medieval peasant communities.
🔎 Read in full:
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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 ⬇️
@jonsimons.bsky.social @kasiamojescik.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @cfernyhough.bsky.social
22.10.2025 09:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🔗 Add your memories to the survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Researcher Kasia Mojescik working on neuroimaging data and Researcher Martha McGill working in the archives. Credit: University of Cambridge
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 ⬇️
Our term card is out! 🌊
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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...
Historian Emily Chung dressed in shades of brown, standing against the grey brick of a Victorian building.
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
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.
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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
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!
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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...
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!
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Herbert Butterfield’s The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) is universally received as sceptical of ‘whig’ teleology in historical accounts and, therefore, of politically charged narratives of history. This view stands in need of a basic correction. Butterfield’s work targets teleological accounts which involve a determinate conception of progress such as would arm a partisan politics. He calls this the politics of the ‘general proposition’. Nevertheless, he does defend a conception of progress involving an indeterminate concept. The historian finds, intimated in the detail of the past, that progress is the fruit of interactions between opposing parties. The imperative for the statesman in the present, then, is to facilitate such interactions. In short, The Whig Interpretation of History is a positive work of political thought. Looked at this way, Butterfield’s later, controversial work, The Englishman & His History, does not appear to be in contradiction with the earlier book so much as a polemical expression of it. The two books together present what may be called Butterfield’s politics of historiography. Histories which present progress as a straight line, to be co-opted by one party, encourage precisely the political action which impedes progress. Butterfield, in short, is still a kind of ‘whig’.
📣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...
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!
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Read more about Dr Ying Dai's prize-winning thesis and research: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/campop-...
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Campop student Ying Dai in the Faculty of History office at the University of Cambridge explaining her dissertation to her son after her graduation.
👏 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 ⬇️
⛪ 👨👨 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.
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🔎 How to apply for the UKRI Fellowship Scheme: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
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07.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0PhD student Kirstie Stage spent five months at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History thanks to a @ukri.org Fellowship.
Researching histories of Deaf & disabled people between the UK & US, she conducted archival work, presented at conferences & learnt American Sign Language (ASL). ⬇️⬇️
@apeikeumolu.bsky.social 🙏
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Listen to Mia Bay, the Faculty's Paul Mellon Professor of American History, discuss African-American Ideas about Race on the new Intellectual History Podcast
🎧 Listen to Mia Bay, Paul Mellon Prof of American History, on the new Intellectual History Podcast.
She explores ideas of race since the 19th century, pointing to the place of Thomas Jefferson in Black American thought and the work of campaigner Ida B. Wells ⬇️
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