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I was taught by a “Garbage Cleaner”: Backlash to Online History Communication
By Matúš Lazar Alongside his doctoral research on public history, Matúš Lazar also runs a YouTube channel under the name M. Laser. In this post, he discusses his experience in producing historical content online. My real name is Matúš Lazar, but most people know me under my online pseudonym M. Laser. As M. Laser I…
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Auschwitz and a Rose Garden: The Zone of Interest is a Brave, but Flawed Film
by Beatrice Leeming There exists an established filmic tradition that has dealt with the ethics of representation and subscribed to the pedagogical power of cinema. The Holocaust has been documented and dramatized with progressive intensity since its occurrence. The perpetrators have been satirised, the victims heroized, and the narrative memorialised in both powerful and problematic…
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Zara Kesterton – Historian Highlight
Zara Kesterton, interviewed by Jake Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Zara Kesterton, a second-year PhD candidate at Jesus College and former DHP editor-in-chief. We discuss artificial flowers, French fashion merchants, and…
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Curating Memory 80 Years On: The Changing Ways the Siege of Leningrad Has Been Memorialised
by Daniel Gilman (@DanielGilmanHQ) The 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi’s Siege of Leningrad came and went only a couple of weeks ago, on 27th of January, with little attention in much of the world. The protracted horror of this siege is one of the most intense tragic events in world history. The…
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Historian Highlight: Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)
by Chris Campbell @Chris__Campbell Although the idea of the ‘public historian’ is a relatively recent concept – spurred on by the growth in consumption of documentaries, podcasts, blogs and social media – there have always been academic historians who have found a broader readership and commanded a certain influence amongst the general public. This new…
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