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1. Catholic AIDS Link Memorial Quilt
By George Severs (@GeorgeSevers10) On World AIDS Day, 30 years after its establishment as a global health event to commemorate those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses, today’s calendar post looks at how objects were produced as a tool of this commemoration. Perhaps the best known ‘AIDS object’ is the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.…
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On Florentines and Fieldwork
By Eleanor Russell Perhaps surprisingly to non-specialists, vast amounts of documentation survive from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, far more than from earlier periods. These surviving documents are not, however, necessarily coherent, and large bodies of sources remain rare. Even merchant correspondence, carefully preserved by traders for their records, has generally not remained intact. One…
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The Wagah Border: a site of uncomfortable contradictions
By Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) The Wagah (or Wagha) border is the Punjab border between India and Pakistan. It is approximately 29 km from the city of Lahore on the Pakistani side and 27 km from Amritsar on the Indian side. Whilst undertaking archival research in Lahore, I was told about the daily lowering of the…
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Fascinating Fieldwork and Excavation at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
by Emily Tilby | (emct3@cam.ac.uk) When I found out that I would be taking part in this summer’s season of Excavations at Shanidar Cave I was really excited as the cave is so important in our understanding of Near Eastern Prehistory and Neanderthal behaviour. I was also slightly nervous as this would be my first experience taking…
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Public History at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Cambridge PhD students Bethan Johnson and George Severs (@GeorgeSevers10) talk to Doing History in Public about their recent Festival of Ideas panel Forms of Extreme Protest in the Post-War West. Can you tell us a bit about your research? George: My PhD researches the history of HIV/AIDS activism in England from 1982, the year of…
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