In 2014, a group of young Cambridge graduates with a shared ideal got together and began plotting…
They believed that historical research was meant to be shared with the wider public and, in an effort to break free of the Ivory Tower, they decided to create a blog. Thus, Doing History in Public was born.
Over the last ten years, the blog has published articles, interview, and the Advent Calendar, all written and edited by Cambridge graduates. 2025 marks the start of DHP’s second decade of life. In honour of this milestone, DHP has reinvented itself as an online magazine/blog committed to helping graduates in and around the University step into the wild world of public discourse. DHP is a friendly, welcoming space for students to launch their first articles into the ‘marketplace of ideas’ and get a taste of what it is like to bring academic rigour into the public sphere. We also publish interviews with the students of the Cambridge Faculty of History – a teaser of what the University is producing and where these brilliant new voices will take historical studies in the future.
Our team of editors work behind the scenes to polish articles and interviews to a high sheen. This year our team comprises:
Editor-in-chief:
Adam Pountney
Social Media Manager:
Historian Hightlights Lead:
Editors:
Deguang Li
Deguang Li is a first-year PhD student in History at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her research centres on the history of science, cultural history, and intellectual history in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and Britain. She holds an MA in Intellectual History and a BA in Comparative Literature from Tsinghua University, and has also undertaken exchange studies at Sciences Po Paris. Trained in Western intellectual history, religious studies, and literature, her academic background is strongly interdisciplinary, with a sustained commitment to bridging literary, philosophical, and historical inquiry.
If you would like to join our amazing team for the year 2025-26, or contribute an article / get interviewed, have a look at the ‘Get Involved‘ page to see what positions are currently open, and the links to submit proposals.
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