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Brexit, the Blob, and Global Britain
By Niles A. Webb Defending Tony Blair’s decision to invade Iraq, historian Andrew Roberts invoked the man who told Britain to fear Hitler but was scorned until events vindicated him. ‘For Churchill, this apotheosis came in 1940 [when Hitler invaded France]; for Tony Blair, it will come when … hundreds of weapons of mass destruction…
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11. An Early Legal Handbook for Women
By Zoë Jackson (@ZoeMJackson1) Ordinary people, including women, in seventeenth-century England participated in legal processes, through which they often demonstrated at least a basic understanding of the law.[1] During the early modern period, there even existed a few legal handbooks specifically aimed at women and their experiences and rights within the law. An early version…
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5. A Mince-Pie Administration
by David Cowan (@david_cowan) The accession of George III in 1760 ended the ‘Whig Supremacy’ and ushered in an era of political volatility as the party system broke down, producing a series of short-lived ministries and factional division until the emergence of Lord North in 1770. When Lord North’s ministry came to an end in…
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Rebecca Turkington – Historian Highlight
Rebecca Turkington (@rcturk), interviewed by Alex White (@alex_j_white) Historian Highlight is an ongoing 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. History…
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Hannah Blythe – Historian Highlight
Hannah Blythe (@Han_Blythe), interviewed by Cherish Watton (Cherish Watton) Historian Highlight is an ongoing 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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