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Courtroom to Classroom: Teaching with Old Bailey Online By Dr. Stephanie Brown (Bluesky: Old Bailey Online is a vast and searchable digital collection of nearly 200,000 trial accounts from London’s central criminal court from 1674 to 1913.1 A pioneer of…

Up now on the blog!

Dr Stephanie Brown discusses bringing 'Courtroom to Classroom: Teaching with Old Bailey Online'

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The Declaration of Independence and the American Constitutional Conversation, 1776-1861 By Joseph Opp Every year, more than one million visitors queue for over an hour to enter the rotunda at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Under its imposing dome and two brilliant murals — …

In case you're after a bit of light Sunday reading, check out our newest post on the blog from Joseph Opp on The Declaration of Independence and the American Constitutional Conversation, 1776-1861

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Friedrich Dahlmann: Germany’s Most Popular Historian before1850 By Yuetong Li (Twitter/X: @yuetongli_doris) Laeta viro gravitas et mentis amabile pondus. (A happy man has a gravity and a lovely weight of mind.)  —— Anton Springer 1 Friedrich Christoph Dahl…

In case yesterday's post wasn't enough, you can also check out last week's contribution to the blog! @YuetongLi_Doris writes about Friedrich Dahlmann: Germany’s Most Popular Historian before 1850

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Oddments of Imperium: St. Mark’s of Bangalore By David Martin (Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social Substack: @davidmartin8293 A cathedral, the seat of a bishop, is normally an august building. From the gargoyle-studded Notre Dame de Paris to…

In case you missed it, our editor-in-chief @davidmartin8293.bsky.social has a new post up on the blog on 'Oddments of Imperium: St. Mark’s of Bangalore'

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2024 marked the ten-year anniversary of the first published post on the Doing History in Public blog, making this year the start of DHP’s second decade of life!

How do you Solve a Problem like Attila On Raphael's 'The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila'

A little piece in honour of the new pontiff

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Magnolia tree in Sherlock Court at St Catharine's College

Wisteria on Old Lodge at St Catharine's College

Yellow tulips in Main Court at St Catharine's College

Ceanothus in Main Court at St Catharine's College

Blooming marvellous! As #NationalGardeningWeek coincides with the start of Easter Term, we're basking in the colours that have been brightening up our gardens as students returned. Here are just a few of the plants that have come into bloom over the last month. Which are your favourites?

The Magic of Children's Shoes - Digital Childhoods Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While textiles degra...

I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too!

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And it’s out! My book is now available online:

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From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe.

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Conference: India and Visions of World Order India and Visions of World Order is an international conference that will take place at the University of Cambridge.

The India and Visions of World Order Conference will be held in Cambridge on the 22nd to 23rd of May. Please see the following link for more details:
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We are thrilled to extend the deadline for our Easter Term Call for Papers by ONE WHOLE WEEK! You now have until Friday, 25 April to submit your abstracts - We look foward to reading them!

All Saints’ Church, Bangalore – AHA The chairs, incense, and even the surrounding trees at a church’s outdoor Easter services reflect the cosmopolitan past of this religious institution.

Its colonial past has left indelible marks upon All Saints' Church in Bangalore. David Martin shares its history in #AHAPerspectives. #EverythingHasAHistory 🗃️

All Saints’ Church, Bangalore – AHA The chairs, incense, and even the surrounding trees at a church’s outdoor Easter services reflect the cosmopolitan past of this religious institution.

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A little something I wrote a while back finally got published. Many thanks to the @historians.org for this!
(Special thanks to Laura for whipping this little article into shape! 🙃)

He Stoops to Globalise, or How a Church came to House World History David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk / Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social) Nestled in the heart of the seventeenth-century Fort St. George, and barely visible through its verdure and petrous neighbours…

It's Thursday, which means a new post on the blog! Today, editor-in-chief David Martin ( @davidmartin8293.bsky.social ) shares his new post 'He Stoops to Globalise, or How a Church brought a World together'

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Historian Highlight – João Moreira da Silva Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. In this instalment, Chris Campbell sat down with second-year …

Be sure to check out our final Historian Highlight of term! This week, João Moreira da Silva talks about his research on the Portuguese Empire and its colonial legacies.

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This week, our editor in chief David Martin @davidmartin8293.bsky.social writes about the Andrean Postcolonial

You can read all about it using the link below!

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With due plausible deniability, I do it 😂

Would it be social-media-tryhard if I liked and shared my own article (even if it’s posted by someone else?) 😅

In case you missed it, we had two fabulous posts go live on the blog this week!

On Monday, we had a new Historian Highlight featuring 2nd-year PhD Student @emmaolson5.bsky.social , who talked all things soundscapes, religious violence, and medieval history!
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Let the Minutes Speak: Documenting the Golden Age of Oppositional Politics in 1970s Egypt By Andreas Nabil Younan (any21@cam.ac.uk) How does one write the political history of an authoritarian regime, where access tostate documents is restricted for national security reasons and censors…

This week, Andreas Nabil Younan documents ‘the Golden Age of Oppositional Politics in 1970s Egypt’

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We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!

This week, in our second collaborative post with the Global History Lab Elvira Tamus and her students discuss ‘Student Protests Around the World’! You can read more on the blog using the link below 👇

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This week kicks off a special series of blog posts on the Global History Lab, the first in three written by groups of international undergraduates, facilitated by Elvira Tamus. Students this week comment on ‘Echoes of communism: A cross-cultural reflection’

Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City By Sietske van der Veen ( Twitter/X: @SBvanderVeen; Bluesky: @sbvanderveen.bsky.social) The documentary Occupied City (De bezette stad,2023) contrasts everyday life in Amsterdam’s cityscape today, …

We're kicking off the new term with a bang! Be sure to read this week's fabulous post from Sietske van der Veen 'Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City'

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I humbly ask, no beg, for an academic search engine that consolidates major museum collections into a single searchable database🙏

Just a quick reminder that our deadline for the Lent 2025 Cycle is in one week on 8 January! Roll up for a friendly, big-tent workshop with a 300 word abstract and 100 word bio note!

You still have a whole week to get your abstracts in - You don’t want to miss an exciting term of workshops!

The Welsh Dadolwch and Princely Favour By Kit Treadwell (ct578@cam.ac.uk)  Dating from the middle of the twelfth century to the middle of the thirteenth, seven Welsh poems bear the title element dadolwch (appeasement, rec…

Delurking today to say I wrote the History Faculty’s blog post for their Advent Calendar! Find attached me rambling in bite sized form about my favourite poetics: doinghistoryinpublic.org/2024/12/11/t...