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Rebecca Turkington – Historian Highlight
Rebecca Turkington (@rcturk), interviewed by Alex White (@alex_j_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…
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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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9. Nazi Broadcasts to Colonial Africa
By Alex White (@alex_j_white) In August 1935, an officer of the Nigerian civil service sent an unusual pamphlet to the British Colonial Office. Printed in English and German, it provided listings and technical information for a new radio service aimed at listeners in Africa.[1] Like many ‘empire’ broadcasters of the 1930s, the service promised to…
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13. The Story of a Worldly Southeast Asian Female Informant
By Jess Winstanley John Anderson’s Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823 reports his voyage to the Pacific commissioned by the British East India Company. Sent out with economic and political briefings, Anderson was not expected to make any commentary on the people he encountered on his travels. However, grounded in the racialised…
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