Tag: French history

  • Travelling the World: The Travelogue as a Source

    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…

  • 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…