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10. Erich Mielke’s Breakfast Order
By Caroline West (@Caroline_N_West) The archives of the East German Ministry for State Security (known as the Stasi) are vast. The holdings contain 111 kilometers of documents on the ministry’s operations – and perhaps most significant, its comprehensive and detailed recordings of the private lives of East German citizens. In 1989, aware that public support…
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Cherish Watton – Historian Highlight
Cherish Watton, interviewed by Alex White 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. History is all…
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Can We Use the Colonial Archives to Do Non-Elite History?
By Akhilesh Karumchand Issur (@AkhileshIssur) History is much more than a sequential list of events; it is full of nuanced perspectives that are experienced, remembered, memorialised, and interpreted in various ways by different people. In need of remaining objective and precise, every historian is therefore confronted with the major challenge of supporting their claims about…
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Emilie Cunning – Historian Highlight
Emilie Cunning, @emiliegcunning, interviewed by 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. History is…
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11. A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Shahnama of Firdawsi
By Jacinta Chen (@jchen852) The Shahnama (Book of Kings) (977–1010) of Firdawsi (c. 940–1019/1025) was one of the most celebrated epics of the early modern Persianate world. Courts and individual patrons collected older manuscripts and commissioned copies of their own, giving artists plenty of creative license to experiment with the surrounding landscape, architecture, clothing, and…
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