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Mandala’s Edge
By Ben Shread-Hewitt (@HewittShread) Outside the bustling city of Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand is overwhelmingly rural and mountainous. Its landscape is starkly divided – barren rocky fields abut verdant cloud forests, and small village horticulture stands next to vast monocrops of maize. It is a region in the middle of a long – and now…
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“Help Me, Rhonda”: The Beach Boys and the Labouring of Popular Music
By Grant Wong (@wongpopscholar) The Beach Boys’ 1965 album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) looks and sounds like your typical early Beach Boys record. Its tracks, hits like “California Girls” and “Help Me Rhonda,” celebrate the simple joys of being a teenager in postwar America. Its album sleeve beams with summer fun, depicting the Beach…
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Brexit, the Blob, and Global Britain
By Niles A. Webb Defending Tony Blair’s decision to invade Iraq, historian Andrew Roberts invoked the man who told Britain to fear Hitler but was scorned until events vindicated him. ‘For Churchill, this apotheosis came in 1940 [when Hitler invaded France]; for Tony Blair, it will come when … hundreds of weapons of mass destruction…
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Harry Parker – Historian Highlight
By Harry Parker, interviewed by Cherish Watton Historian Highlight is a new series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge. We ask students how they came to research their topic, their favourite archival find, as well as the best (and worst) advice they’ve received as academics in training. History is…
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Courtroom to Classroom: Teaching with Old Bailey Online
Dr Stephanie Brown (Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stephemmabrown.bsky.social) 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. A pioneer of digital humanities, Old Bailey Online also holds remarkable pedagogical value. In my teaching, I have found it to be an unparalleled resource for…
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