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22. Miss Merrifield’s Cricket Bat
By Georgia Oman In May 1876, Margaret Merrifield wrote a letter home to her mother from Newnham College, Cambridge, where she had arrived as a student the year before. The College itself had only been founded a few years earlier, in 1871, with five students living in a rented house in Regent Street, Cambridge. In…
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24. The Stanwick Church Crucifixion
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23. Cleaning teeth through the ages
By Emily Redican-Bradford (efr27@cam.ac.uk) The first ‘toothbrush’ is thought to have been invented in China in the 1400s, when bristles from the necks of pigs were fixed onto bone or bamboo handles.[1] Before that, twigs were chewed on or split to form brushes and different flavours were used for freshening breath. The ‘modern toothbrush’ was…
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Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2018
Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) looks back at the events of 2018 and how DHP covered them. 2018 was another turbulent year in global politics. In March, Vladimir Putin was, unsurprisingly, re-elected as Russia’s President. Mobeen Hussain reflected in this blog post on how Putin’s popular appeal stemmed in part from rebranding the long-held idea of Russian…
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The lost coin collection of the Stuart monarchs
By Christopher Whittell (@ChrisWhittell) This post is related to my research for a recent conference paper on the influence of ancient coins on the portrayal of early modern British monarchs.[1] It also highlights the possibilities of catalogues of coins collections as useful sources for early modern historians including insights into a monarch’s thinking and influences.…
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