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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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Margaret F. Rosenthal and Ann Rosalind Jones, The Clothing of the Renaissance World (2008)
by Katy Bond When Cesare Vecellio published his celebrated book of world dress in 1590, the Earth’s horizons must have seemed to the Venetian artist, to be ever-expanding. First published under the title, ‘Degli habiti antichi et oderni di diverse parti del mondo’ (‘Of the clothing, ancient and modern, of diverse parts of the world’),…
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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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Agnes of Poitou (c.1025-1077) and ‘Medieval’ Attitudes to Women in Power?
by Emily Ward Popular interest in medieval queenship was sparked by the recent television dramatization of the novel, The White Queen, and its portrayal of the relationship between a queen mother and her young sons, the ‘princes in the tower’. This triggered thoughts for me about my own research period, the eleventh and twelfth centuries. …
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A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime (2005)
by Ella Hollowood The premise of A. Roger Ekirch’s At Day’s Close is a relatively simple one: what was nighttime like in Western society before industrialisation and modern lighting? Yet the result is a rich and fascinating study of ‘the forgotten half of the human experience’ and of a fundamental shift that took place between…
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