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Reimagining Oral History and its Role in Society
By Lewis Younie (@Lewis_Younie) On 6th January, a mob invaded the United States Capitol building, the seat of their federal democracy. In response, historians informed the public about the deep roots which white supremacy had in motivating that insurrection. Over a thousand signed a letter, for example, calling for President Trump to resign due to…
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Harry Parker – Historian Highlight
By Harry Parker, interviewed by Cherish Watton Historian Highlight is a new 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 is…
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16. Le Cochon Noir (‘The Black Pig’) Songbook
By Sam Young (@samyoung102) Le Cochon Noir is a booklet of anticlerical songs produced in Marseilles in 1902 by the songwriter Eugène Besson. [i] Though humorous in tone, Besson’s songs are sharp in their condemnation of the Catholic clergy. Priests are ridiculed throughout as gluttons (the title song refers to a cleric’s black robes), liars…
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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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Twilight of the Idols: The Critical Race Theory Scare and the Collapsing Dream of a Colour-Blind America
By Thomas Cryer As the Republican campaign against critical race theory accelerated in 2021, America’s culture wars descended into guerrilla skirmishes, empowering private actors to wage the Democratic-Republican struggle within local school boards across America. By November, nine states passed deliberately vague laws stamped as ‘anti-CRT’, prohibiting dialogue about America’s increasingly apparent racial inequities in…
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