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« Nos ancêtres les Gaulois »: national histories and the misuse of history
By Sam Rowe (@SamuelRowe12) ‘Dès que vous devenez français, vos ancêtres sont gaulois.’ [‘As soon as you become French, your ancestors are Gaulish.’] These were the words uttered by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy during a political meeting in 2016 while campaigning for the 2017 presidential elections. He proposed that French identity, essentially linked to…
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Colonial ecological control and aristocratic privileges: a study of big-game hunting in Indochina
By Clémentine Ducasse Dashing through the night, a car hurtled madly down the banyan tree-lined road. The car headlights, dazzling in the darkness of the jungle, met two luminous reflectors. A shot! The mad dash ended. Two men stepped out of the car and came closer to glimmering eyeballs belonging to an exhausted, soon-to-be-dead tiger.…
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Hannah Blythe – Historian Highlight
Hannah Blythe (@Han_Blythe), interviewed by Cherish Watton (Cherish Watton) Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge. We ask students how they came to research their topic, their favourite archival find, as well as the best (and worst) advice they’ve received as academics in training.…
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How to build powerful advocacy movements: lessons from the 1960s Ugandan women’s movement
By Livia Eva Karoui (@LiviaEva) On March 22, 1960, women from across Uganda arrived at the National Cultural Centre in Kampala for the Conference on the Status of Women in Relation to the Marriage Laws. They represented 12 of the 17 districts of Uganda and all its major religious denominations. They were white British women,…
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How writing a history dissertation is killing ‘me’
By Ivi Fung Being a historian carries a dual identity of researcher and writer. But a scholar writing History (with a capital H) does not always have the privilege of writing originally, creatively and experimentally. Creating a text as academics means conforming not only to the academic integrity and methodology in the discipline but also…
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