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Historian Highlight: Edward Hallett Carr (1892-1982)
by Chris Campbell, @Chris__Campbell E. H. Carr must surely be one of the most seasonal names in British historical education. It emerges towards the end of summer in suggested reading lists, multiplies throughout the autumn in sixth form history classrooms, and returns to hibernation shortly after the personal statement deadline passes. How many times throughout…
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In Defense of Anachronism: A Historian’s Perspective
By Marlo Avidon (@MarloAvidon) Sitting in my first year of undergrad, I remember the stern admonishment of my seminar leader prepping us for the submission of our coursework: anachronism doesn’t belong in the study of history. As historians, there is a constant expectation to maintain distance from the figures we study and to be constantly…
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Popery, or the Scarlet Church of the Malabar (and The Protestants who Named Her)
by David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) @David_8293 “Accompanied by hundreds of drums, trumpets, and all the discordant noisy music of the country; with numberless torches and fireworks: the statue of the Saint placed on a car is charged with garlands of flowers and gaudy ornaments according to the taste of the country… Such is the mode in…
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Hunted, or Charpentier’s Mythic Appropriations
David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) “I am he who, born in another age, was known during the last century.” So begins a despairing Marc-Antoine Charpentier in his Epitaphium Carpentarii, or musical epitaph. For much of his life, he believed that he was little more than a glorified chorister for the Duchesse de Guise, despite his training in…
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Thomas Maidment – Historian Highlight
Thomas Maidment, interviewed by Jake Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Thomas Maidment, a second-year PhD candidate at Selwyn College, to talk about his research on visions of a European union in…
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