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Travelling the World: The Travelogue as a Source
by Tiéphaine Thomason (@teaphaine) It’s a soggy, grey October. The boiler’s acting up, you’re stuck at home in a jumper, wishing you were elsewhere. At times like this, it seems natural to gravitate towards tales of warmer places. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Tim Cope’s ‘On the Trail of Genghis…
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Ghost Stories: a study of Spirit Photography
By Samuel Houlberg Ghosts. Perfect Autumnal Halloween fare. Who doesn’t love sitting around a fire on a cold evening telling ghost stories? There’s something in the human psyche that’s easily drawn to them, with tales of ghostly occurrences stretching from Roman chain-jangling horrors, to the Romantic competitions of the Villa Diodati, and reappearing in the…
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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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Intervention and Reflection – Black Atlantic at the Fitzwilliam Museum
by Tomas Brown In 1816, Richard Fitzwilliam bequeaths £100,000, his library, and art collection to the University of Cambridge, accumulated through the wealth of his slave trading grandfather. This money supports the Fitzwilliam Museum to this day.[1] Later in the nineteenth century, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is constructed around categories such as ‘social…
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1. Count Down Through Time: The Advent Calendar as a Primary Text for Public History
By Daniel Gilman, @DanielGilmanHQ Ever wondered about the Advent calendars history, from its origin as a religious countdown to Christmas, to its present-day iteration, featuring little surprises behind little cardboard doors? You’re not alone. Here is what I’ve found as I traced the history of Advent calendars for Doing History in Public. Public history enables…
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