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  • Revisiting Kipling’s Kim

    Revisiting Kipling’s Kim

    By Jeremy Wikeley Over the summer I read Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim for the first time. I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting to. Kim tells the story of an Irish orphan who, growing up in India, has a series of adventures, first as the protégé of an elderly Buddhist monk and…

  • Public History at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

    Public History at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

    Cambridge PhD students Bethan Johnson and George Severs (@GeorgeSevers10) talk to Doing History in Public about their recent Festival of Ideas panel Forms of Extreme Protest in the Post-War West. Can you tell us a bit about your research? George: My PhD researches the history of HIV/AIDS activism in England from 1982, the year of…

  • Film archives: using moving images as historical sources

    Film archives: using moving images as historical sources

    By Max Long My first encounter with moving image archives took place in a windowless room in the basement of a building in London. I was there to view a selection of natural history films. I had watched similar films online, but here I could load, spool, and wind up the films myself. Films are…

  • Playing the Blame Game: Divorce Then and Now

    Playing the Blame Game: Divorce Then and Now

    By Georgia Oman (@Georgia_Oman) When Parliament was suspended this September, several bills making their way through the Commons and Lords were dropped. Although three pieces of legislation were carried over to the next session, the remainder fell into a legal limbo, with their only hope of resurrection being that the government would choose to re-introduce them…

  • ‘Paying it forward’: Bonds of giving between Ireland and the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Navajo Nations from the Irish Famine to COVID-19.

    ‘Paying it forward’: Bonds of giving between Ireland and the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Navajo Nations from the Irish Famine to COVID-19.

    By Aoife O’Leary McNeice (@aolmcn) In the mid 1840s and early 1850s, Ireland was ravaged by a Famine which, through a combination of death and emigration, saw the population fall by a third. The horrors of the Famine were reported globally, and the crisis, unfolding in almost real time in the newspapers of readers worldwide prompted…