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The Gentleman Pirate Isn’t Such a Gentleman: a historical analysis of erasure in ‘Our Flag Means Death’
By Jendayi Omowale, @jen_omo Our Flag Means Death, a show about queer pirates roaming the seas produced by Taika Waititi, made a big splash on HBO. It became one of the most in-demand shows in the U.S. last year, beating Marvel-backed shows like Moon Knight.[i] I came across the show as I have many shows before it,…
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Student Protests Around the World
By Lucia Bricknell, Enock Ishimwe, Abel Tesfaye Kebede, Halil Kemal Ocak, Inessa Porte, and Reyanne Tirion (@globalhistorylab) Introduction by Elvira Viktória Tamus (@evtamus; evt27@cam.ac.uk), Teaching Fellow at the Global History Lab and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge For more than three months, tens of thousands have been protesting against the…
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Historian Highlight – Elvira Tamus
In the first Historian Highlight of Easter Term, Chris Campbell sat down with History PhD student Elvira Tamus to discuss her research, the New Diplomatic History, and the Global History Lab. Elvira, let’s start by talking about your current research I’m analysing the actors of sixteenth-century diplomacy, mainly looking at people who served the King…
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