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Curating Memory 80 Years On: The Changing Ways the Siege of Leningrad Has Been Memorialised

by Daniel Gilman (@DanielGilmanHQ) The 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi’s Siege of Leningrad came and went only a couple of weeks ago, on 27th of January, with little attention in much of the world. The protracted horror of this siege is one of the most intense tragic events in world history. The…
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Adding nuance to Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin

by Noam Bizan, @NoamBzn On 6th February, former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin in an intricately decorated room in the Kremlin.[1] Much has been written analysing this interview and Carlson’s trip to Moscow, largely focusing on the interview’s implications for current US-Russian relations and the war in Ukraine, which just marked…
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Echoes of communism: A cross-cultural reflection

By Emilia Dworak, Mariasole Fusco, Artemii Grigorev, Zofia Idalia Torchała, and Alice Zambardino (@globalhistorylab) Introduction by Elvira Viktória Tamus (@evtamus; evt27@cam.ac.uk), Teaching Fellow at the Global History Lab and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Global History Lab (GHL) is an educational platform based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social…
