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Vampires, Ghosts, and Spirits on Santorini: The Affectivity of a Sulphuric Landscape
By Lavinia Gambini (@GambiniLavinia) Today known for its luxury tourism, high-end ‘destination weddings’, and romantic ‘Instagrammability’, Santorini was for seventeenth-century Westerners a ‘demonic’ island.[1] Early modern travellers to the Aegean encountered an unsettling landscape: they met a fragmented island torn into pieces by the many seismic and volcanic activities that had struck Santorini throughout…
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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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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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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…
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Striking Gold in the Archive: Goldsmiths’ Hall
By Kirsty Wright (@BeingKirst) Perhaps ironically in a year when access to archives has been restricted, my research shifted direction to examine the materiality of early modern records and record-keeping. In the summer when I was able to return to The National Archives, I spent some time sifting through different boxes for relevant material and…
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