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Ending Fascism, Dreaming Socialism: The Portuguese Revolution
João Moreira da Silva @moreiradasilvaj Fifty years ago, the future was now in Portugal. Crowds stormed the streets of Lisbon to follow the fall of a fascist dictatorship at the hands of insurgent militaries; radios, televisions, and public buildings were seized; the premier surrendered; the war in the African colonies, such as Angola and Mozambique,…
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Historian Highlight – Sophia T. C. Feist
Interviewed by Jake Bransgrove, @Jake_Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Sophia T. C. Feist (@stcfeist), a second-year PhD candidate at Corpus Christi College, to talk liveries, craft cultures at the courts of…
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Popery, or the Scarlet Church of the Malabar (and The Protestants who Named Her)
by David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) @David_8293 “Accompanied by hundreds of drums, trumpets, and all the discordant noisy music of the country; with numberless torches and fireworks: the statue of the Saint placed on a car is charged with garlands of flowers and gaudy ornaments according to the taste of the country… Such is the mode in…
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Shakespeare’s Forgotten Publisher: The Curious Disappearance of Edward Blount
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Historian Highlight – C. L. R. James (1901-1989)
by Molly Groarke, @Molly_Groarke ‘I was tired of reading and hearing about Africans being persecuted and oppressed in Africa, in the Middle Passage, in the USA and all over the Caribbean. I made up my mind that I would write a book in which Africans or people of African descent instead of constantly being the…
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