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Kendra Nydam – Historian Highlight
Kendra Nydam and Chris Campbell University of Cambridge A new academic year brings with it a new editor for our Historian Highlights section and, as has become tradition, we introduce them to you through the form of an HH interview. Chris Campbell, the outgoing editor, sat down earlier in the summer with Kendra Nydam, a…
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History and United States prison policy: an interview with Dr Heather Ann Thompson (Part I)
By Jess Hope As a glance at the profiles of this blog team will show, ‘doing history in public’ reflects a goal of making our practices as historians more transparent, collaborative and accessible. Many historians I’ve spoken with also hope to demonstrate that their research matters to the public, and that it has important political,…
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Calling all Cambridge Graduate Historians: Put yourself on the Map!
The University of Cambridge History Faculty is recognised as one of the world’s leading history departments and it is the largest amongst the humanities and social science faculties at Cambridge. It is time to visualise the sheer diversity of the research being undertaken by History graduates. The map pins each student to their area of…
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Reflections on Creating a Map
by Hira Amin To showcase the sheer diversity in research being undertaken at the University of Cambridge by history MPhil and PhD students, I decided to create a map pinning each student to their research area. This brief article will outline the thought process and actions behind the final product.
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World Factory: fabricating a digital quilt
by Katy Bond, Jess Hope and Anne Alexander Cambridge historians were recently invited to contribute research to World Factory, an interdisciplinary performance project exploring the global textile industry through the lenses of nineteenth-century Manchester and present-day China. A collaboration between Zoë Svendsen and Simon Daw of performing arts company Metis and Shanghai-based theatre director Zhao Chuan, it…
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