Tag: history

  • He Stoops to Globalise, or How a Church came to House World History

    He Stoops to Globalise, or How a Church came to House World History

    David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk / Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social) Nestled in the heart of the seventeenth-century Fort St. George, and barely visible through its verdure and petrous neighbours, St. Mary’s Church is an icon of the city of Chennai in Southern India. With a subtitle as glamorous as ‘the oldest Anglican establishment East of Suez’, one would expect…

  • Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2021

    Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2021

    By Alex White (@alex_j_white) Historians often struggle to recognise the significance of their own times. Finding trends, transformations and turning points in the archive is one thing, but recognising monumental change in the present can be quite another. Looking back at 2021, however, it already seems clear that the world has had an eventful year.…