Tag: eighteenth century history

  • 8. Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House

    8. Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House

    Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House

  • 14. Turkeys and Devils: Jesuits in Parisian Streets

    14. Turkeys and Devils: Jesuits in Parisian Streets

    By Tiéphaine Thomason, @teaphaine It should come as no surprise that, in a society of highly variable literacy, satire was often oral. Such was the world of the Parisian street in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This satire was often set to popular tunes to be sung, as well as recited, and stuck up on…

  • Zara Kesterton – Historian Highlight

    Zara Kesterton – Historian Highlight

    Zara Kesterton, 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 Zara Kesterton, a second-year PhD candidate at Jesus College and former DHP editor-in-chief. We discuss artificial flowers, French fashion merchants, and…

  • Historian Highlight – C. L. R. James (1901-1989)

    Historian Highlight – C. L. R. James (1901-1989)

    by Molly Groarke, @Molly_Groarke ‘I was tired of reading and hearing about Africans being persecuted and oppressed in Africa, in the Middle Passage, in the USA and all over the Caribbean. I made up my mind that I would write a book in which Africans or people of African descent instead of constantly being the…