Category: Historian Highlights

  • Kendra Nydam – Historian Highlight

    Kendra Nydam – Historian Highlight

    By Kendra Nydam, interviewed by Chris Campbell A new academic year brings with it a new editor for our Historian Highlights section and, as has become tradition, we introduce them to you through the form of an HH interview.  Chris Campbell, the outgoing editor, sat down earlier in the summer with Kendra Nydam, a second-year…

  • Historian Highlight – Eric Williams

    Historian Highlight – Eric Williams

    By Molly Groarke (@mollygroarke) On 19th April 1944, Eric Williams (1911-1981) delivered a lecture at Trinidad Public Library on ‘The British West Indies in World History’. Williams later recalled in his memoir how the audience overflowed the space of the library. He created typed copies of the lecture to sell cheaply so his paper could reach…