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Grace Whorrall-Campbell – Historian Highlight
By Grace Whorrall-Campbell, interviewed by Cherish Watton (@CherishWatton), Series Editor 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…
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George Severs – Historian Highlight
By George Severs (@GeorgeSevers10) & Cherish Watton (@CherishWatton), Series Editor 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.…
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24. ‘Morality’ Broadcasts by a Dictator
By David Crowther Jose Efrain Ríos Montt (1926-2018) was a complicated figure, to say the least. President of Guatemala for a brief period in the 1980s, and an influential figure in Guatemalan politics thereafter, Ríos Montt was an uncompromising Protestant moralist in a country that increasingly followed his path of conversion. As leader of the…
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21. A Sketch for a Socialist Transhumanism
By Sam Phoenix Clarke (@samjphoenix) ‘The chemical or physical inventor is always a Prometheus. There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.’ [1] The life of J. B. S. Haldane gives the impression of a man who made himself at home in his…
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Malika Zekhni – Historian Highlight
By Malika Zekhni, interviewed by Alex 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 is…
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