Carys Brown

Former Editor-in-chief | 3rd year PhD student at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | MPhil in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge | BA in History, Cambridge | PGCE Secondary History, Cambridge |

History makes the world a brighter place.

| Current research: Religious coexistence and sociability in England, c. 1689-1750 |

| Interests: History and education | Museums and galleries | History broadcasting | Singing | Art |

| clmb3@cam.ac.uk | @HistoryCarys | www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/carys-brown

Blog posts:

• ‘Hay fever: An irritating history’, 26 June 2018.
• ‘The roots of vegetable politics’, 20 February 2018.
• ‘Doing History in Public review of the year’, 16 January 2018.
• ‘Blackmail, murder, and a trail gone cold’ (Advent Calendar post), 1 December 2017.
• ‘Changing rooms in eighteenth-century London’, 10 October 2017.
• ‘Proclaiming tolerance and maintaining integrity’, 27 June 2017.
• ‘Snap elections: a brief historical guide’, 25 April 2017.
• ‘Absent leeks, lost voices? Cooking and recording in early modern Wales’, 28 February 2017.

• ‘Sweet harmony or rough music? Singing in the seventeenth century‘, 31 January 2017.

• ‘Christmas shopping in the seventeenth century’, 15 December 2016.

• ‘Editorial: DHP’s top historical novels’, 4 October 2016. (Co-authored)
• ‘In praise of history teachers’, 27 September 2016.
• ‘History from below: fashion, freedom, and the female form’, 5 May 2016.
• ‘Identifying and removing barriers to digital history’, 19 April 2016. (Co-authored)
• ‘”Trojan horse” and indoctrinating youth in eighteenth-century England’, 8 March 2016.
• ‘History on stage: Queen Anne’, 28 January 2016.
• ‘Editorial: Top history reads’, 26 January 2016. (Co-authored)
• ‘Dates for the diary: Public and digital history talks and events in Cambridge, spring 2016’, 14 January 2016.
• ‘Significant anniversaries in 2016: the Contagious Diseases Act of 1866?’, 7 January 2016.
• ‘Dressing up and steaming ahead: must-visit museums’, 12 November 2015. (Co-authored)
• ‘Living, breathing, history’, 3 November 2015.
• ‘Thinking with pies’, 20 October 2015.
• ‘Reflections on “Making ‘Big Data’ Human”‘, 15 October 2015. (Co-authored)
• ‘The refugee crisis in Europe: should history drive the debate?’, 17 September 2015.
• ‘”Do Not Touch”: Academics in the museum’, 4 June 2015.
• ‘Wealth, status, and power: is the franchise the same as the vote?’, 14 April 2015.
• ‘Wolf Hall and the historians: What can historical drama do?’, 3 March 2015.
• ‘Can historians study the mind?’, 27 January 2015.