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Jake Bransgrove – Historian Highlight
Jake Bransgrove, interviewed by Tiéphaine Thomason Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest post, we sat down with Jake Bransgrove, a second-year PhD candidate at Trinity Hall, who will be taking over our Historian Highlight series this academic year.…
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3. Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi: A Site of Transregional Cultural Flows
By Loong Dien Min, @dmloong Cover image: Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi, or Khoo Kongsi Clan House in Georgetown, Penang. Elwiz Low. 2013. https://www.flickr.com/photos/55317041@N02/7854424908/ In 1851, while the first documented wooden Advent calendar was being crafted in Germany [1], the island of Penang, situated 5260 nautical miles away, witnessed the inception of the Leong San…
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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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