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In Defense of Anachronism: A Historian’s Perspective
By Marlo Avidon (@MarloAvidon) Sitting in my first year of undergrad, I remember the stern admonishment of my seminar leader prepping us for the submission of our coursework: anachronism doesn’t belong in the study of history. As historians, there is a constant expectation to maintain distance from the figures we study and to be constantly…
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Vernacular material, opinion polling or social survey? Approaching popular testimony in the Mass-Observation archive
by Rebecca Goldsmith @relgoldsmith The field of modern British history has experienced a new ‘turn’ in recent years. Historians like Jon Lawrence, David Cowan and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite have pioneered the re-use of archived interview field-notes from post-war social science.[1] By and large, this trend has been motivated by an interest in the subjects of social…
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Historian Highlight: Benjamin Farrington (1891-1974)
by Sam Phoenix Clarke, @samjphoenix ‘Recent advances in physics hold out the prospect that human civilisation may be destroyed. Recent advances in history, revealing to us with a startlingly clearer insight what the nature of civilisation is, might, if they were more widely understood, give us the little bit of extra wisdom which would induce…
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Molly Groarke – Historian Highlight
Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. In this instalment, Chris Campbell sat down with second-year History PhD student Molly Groarke to discuss imperial history, heritage organisations, and public-facing research. @mollygroarke | @chriscampbell Molly, let’s start by talking about your PhD research.…
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Historian Highlight – Herodotus and Thucydides
by Chris Campbell All of the historians discussed so far in this series have belonged to academic institutions, but who nevertheless sought to take their work into the public domain and use their research to shape broader understandings of history. This has meant, though, that all of the historians have been modern; history departments in…
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