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Historian Highlight – Sophia T. C. Feist
Interviewed by Jake Bransgrove, @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 Sophia T. C. Feist (@stcfeist), a second-year PhD candidate at Corpus Christi College, to talk liveries, craft cultures at the courts of…
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Popery, or the Scarlet Church of the Malabar (and The Protestants who Named Her)
by David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) @David_8293 “Accompanied by hundreds of drums, trumpets, and all the discordant noisy music of the country; with numberless torches and fireworks: the statue of the Saint placed on a car is charged with garlands of flowers and gaudy ornaments according to the taste of the country… Such is the mode in…
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Shakespeare’s Forgotten Publisher: The Curious Disappearance of Edward Blount
Why did Edward Blount, the publisher of Shakespeare’s First Folio, suddenly disappear from the historical record in the mid-1620s? Matt Ryan has found exciting new archival evidence that sheds light on this historical mystery.
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Historian Highlight – C. L. R. James (1901-1989)
by Molly Groarke, @Molly_Groarke ‘I was tired of reading and hearing about Africans being persecuted and oppressed in Africa, in the Middle Passage, in the USA and all over the Caribbean. I made up my mind that I would write a book in which Africans or people of African descent instead of constantly being the…
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History from the edge: teaching global history in a Ugandan refugee settlement
by Elvira Tamus (evt27@cam.ac.uk) @evtamus Our world is torn apart by a number of military, political, economic, social, and cultural conflicts. Dealing with these situations is the foundation of the Global History Lab (GHL), and educational platform based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.…
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