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Victorian Christmas Cards
By Fabia Buescher (fb586@cam.ac.uk) Today, Christmas cards from friends and family members decorate the living rooms of many. From snowy landscapes to smiling Santas and family pictures, the Christmas card is a popular way of staying connected with loved ones and sharing holiday cheer. But what is the history behind this tradition? The first Christmas…
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…and a Merry Christmas to all!
We made it at last – Advent is done! Christmas, as with so many ancient festivals, is a time of renewal — to celebrate the year gone by and welcome the next. As the Winter Solstice comes and goes, the days lengthen again, and DHP slowly rejuvenates for the New Year! Doing History in Public…
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Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City
By Sietske van der Veen ( Twitter/X: @SBvanderVeen; Bluesky: @sbvanderveen.bsky.social) The documentary Occupied City (De bezette stad,2023) contrasts everyday life in Amsterdam’s cityscape today, visualised in the moving images, with the horrors of World War II, described by the voice-over. Through this layering in sound and vision, the 4.5-hour film made by Steve McQueen and…
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Molly Groarke – Historian Highlight
Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. In this instalment, Chris Campbell sat down with second-year History PhD student Molly Groarke to discuss imperial history, heritage organisations, and public-facing research. @mollygroarke | @chriscampbell Molly, let’s start by talking about your PhD research.…
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Echoes of communism: A cross-cultural reflection
By Emilia Dworak, Mariasole Fusco, Artemii Grigorev, Zofia Idalia Torchała, and Alice Zambardino (@globalhistorylab) Introduction by Elvira Viktória Tamus (@evtamus; evt27@cam.ac.uk), Teaching Fellow at the Global History Lab and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Global History Lab (GHL) is an educational platform based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social…
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