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Women of the Manhattan Project
By Evangeline Leggatt (@evie_leggatt) Traditional narratives of the Manhattan Project emphasise a group of heroic white male physicists in the United States who succeeded in creating, testing, and using the world’s first atomic weapons. Perhaps the most recognisable figure in atomic history was the project’s scientific leader, Dr J. R. Oppenheimer. Other prominent male figures…
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Grace Whorrall-Campbell – Historian Highlight
By Grace Whorrall-Campbell, interviewed by Cherish Watton (@CherishWatton), Series Editor Historian Highlight is a new series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge. We ask students how they came to research their topic, their favourite archival find, as well as the best (and worst) advice they’ve received as academics in…
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The Abyss of Recipes
Cassell’s Cyclopaedia of Mechanics and William Kentridge’s Second-Hand Reading By Xinyi Wen (@HPSWarburgian) Artist William Kentridge told an anecdote when talking about his video artwork Second-Hand Reading (2013). Once Kentridge asked someone what a common friend of theirs was doing and received the answer ‘busy making a tree-search’. A confusing term as it is, ‘tree-search’ triggered Kentridge’s imagination – one has…
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Reimagining Oral History and its Role in Society
By Lewis Younie (@Lewis_Younie) On 6th January, a mob invaded the United States Capitol building, the seat of their federal democracy. In response, historians informed the public about the deep roots which white supremacy had in motivating that insurrection. Over a thousand signed a letter, for example, calling for President Trump to resign due to…
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Alejandro Barrett Lopez – Historian Highlight
By Alejandro Barrett Lopez (@Alebarr_1889), interviewed by Alex White (@alex_j_white) Historian Highlight is a new series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge. We ask students how they came to research their topic, their favourite archival find, as well as the best (and worst) advice they’ve received as academics in…
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