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George Severs – Historian Highlight
By George Severs (@GeorgeSevers10) & Cherish Watton (@CherishWatton), Series Editor Historian Highlight is a new series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge. We ask students how they came to research their topic, their favourite archival find, as well as the best (and worst) advice they’ve received as academics in training.…
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“Steel their Bodies and Minds” – How the Wandervogel reconciled nature with modernity
By Charlotte Alt Life in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century was an overwhelming experience. Modernity by then had arrived in full force: cities exploded with masses of people, and modern innovations like the telegraph and railway drastically changed the pace of everyday life. As urban spaces appeared increasingly overstimulating, people began to…
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