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Student Protests Around the World
By Lucia Bricknell, Enock Ishimwe, Abel Tesfaye Kebede, Halil Kemal Ocak, Inessa Porte, and Reyanne Tirion (@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 For more than three months, tens of thousands have been protesting against the…
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Historian Highlight – Herodotus and Thucydides
by Chris Campbell All of the historians discussed so far in this series have belonged to academic institutions, but who nevertheless sought to take their work into the public domain and use their research to shape broader understandings of history. This has meant, though, that all of the historians have been modern; history departments in…
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How Imperialism and Colonialism Affect Student Politics: A Comparative Study
By Fakhrunisa Abulfazil, Geetika Jayachandaran, Zhadyra Khamza, and Allen Sandra Puthussery Sunil (@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 In our third and final piece in a series of essays written by students of the Sapienza University of…
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Let the Minutes Speak: Documenting the Golden Age of Oppositional Politics in 1970s Egypt
By Andreas Nabil Younan (any21@cam.ac.uk) How does one write the political history of an authoritarian regime, where access tostate documents is restricted for national security reasons and censorship has beenwidespread? Egypt has been under strict military rule since the republic’s founding in 1952,following a coup d’état by the “Free Officers” movement against the British-backedmonarchy. President…
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Emma Olson – Historian Highlight
Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. Earlier this month, Chris Campbell met up with second-year History PhD student Emma Olson to discuss soundscapes, religious violence and the challenges of researching medieval history. @EmmaOlson | @ChrisCampbell Emma, tell me about your current…
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