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Back to the Future? Assessing Andrei Sakharov’s Predictions for the World Order in 2024
Noam Bizan (nb705@cam.ac.uk) In 1974, Andrei Sakharov published an article in the West, “Tomorrow: The View From Red Square,” envisioning what the world might look like in fifty years. Now that 2024 has ended, we can reflect on how his predictions for international affairs have unfolded. To what extent do they still resonate today? Sakharov…
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An Andrean Postcolonial
David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk / Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social) Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae — the words stand bold on the façade of St. Andrew’s Church — the Kirk, a reminder of a time when these structures were erected by the grace of kings and the elder statesmen. These were monuments as much to themselves as to the…
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Historian Highlight – Elvira Tamus
In the first Historian Highlight of Easter Term, Chris Campbell sat down with History PhD student Elvira Tamus to discuss her research, the New Diplomatic History, and the Global History Lab. Elvira, let’s start by talking about your current research I’m analysing the actors of sixteenth-century diplomacy, mainly looking at people who served the King…
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Historian Highlight – João Moreira da Silva
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 João Moreira da Silva to talk about his research on the Portuguese Empire and its colonial legacies. João, let’s start by talking about your PhD research. My…
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He Stoops to Globalise, or How a Church came to House World History
David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk / Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social) Nestled in the heart of the seventeenth-century Fort St. George, and barely visible through its verdure and petrous neighbours, St. Mary’s Church is an icon of the city of Chennai in Southern India. With a subtitle as glamorous as ‘the oldest Anglican establishment East of Suez’, one would expect…
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