Category: Archive

  • Who liberated Belgrade – and who cares who liberated Belgrade?

    Who liberated Belgrade – and who cares who liberated Belgrade?

    By Helena Trenkić (@helenakic) In 1948 Tito’s Yugoslavia was expelled from the alliance of Marxist-Leninist parties known as Cominform. In the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split, the narrative of who liberated Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War – and in particular who liberated the capital, Belgrade – became hotly-contested history. 

  • The It-Narrative as Material Culture Methodology: Practical Applications for Historians

    The It-Narrative as Material Culture Methodology: Practical Applications for Historians

    By Kerry Love (@kerrymlove) A popular novel format in the eighteenth century was the ‘it-narrative,’ or ‘novel of circulation,’ whereby the story was told by an inanimate object, such as a coin, quill or a coach, or an animal such as a pet dog, in first person. Their treatment in literary studies has been covered…

  • Alejandro Barrett Lopez – Historian Highlight

    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…

  • A Summer School on Hungarian Church History

    A Summer School on Hungarian Church History

    by Elvira Tamus (@evtamus) Between the 6th and 8th August 2021, I attended the 7th Fraknói Summer Academy organised for postgraduate students and early career researchers interested in Hungarian church history. It was an unique opportunity for young historians, including me, to get to know the latest scholarly collaborations and debates in the field of…