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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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18. A Treasure Trove of Plundered Art
By Callie Belback During the Second World War, as European cities fell to the Nazis, art conservators in the United States began to advocate for a field-based conservation corps whose duty would be to identify and protect cultural treasures. This soon became the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section of the Allies (MFA). The MFA…
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7. Romanian New Wave Cinema and Self-Conscious Commemoration
By Beatrice Leeming, @LeemingBeatrice Arthouse cinema is often associated with French films of the 1950s and ‘60s. At a push, critical interest extends to experimental Czech cinema of the same period. In the Anglo-American world, insufficient attention and appreciation is afforded to the Romanian New Wave (RNW), a concentration of creative and critically acclaimed cinema…
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The Christmas Book Flood, or, ‘That’s Why Bookworms Go To Iceland’
By Chris Campbell Scandinavian customs have grown in popularity year-round, but always seem to be particularly prevalent at Christmas. Whether hygge, from Denmark,inspires us to create a warm and cosy atmosphere with friends and family, or fika, from Sweden,tempts us to pause and relax on a wintry morning with (another) coffee and cinnamon bun, the…
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