News and events in modern British history at @CamHistory.
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It was fantastic to attend the final @NYCTC_History conference last weekend, hosted by @JesusCollegeCam .
The group has been an extremely important part of my PhD experience, and I would like to thank everyone at @Columbia, @nyuniversity and @Cambridge_Uni for all their work!
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Great to see the amazing Caribbean elements of the Royal Commonwealth Society collection @theUL for @NYCTC_History, introduced by @mpijoseph
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On #WorldPopulationDay influential Cambridge research group @CamUniCampop marks its 60th anniversary with new 'Top of the CamPops' blog, busting the biggest myths about life in England since the Middle Ages: everything from sex before marriage to migration campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/
ALT E. W. Hope, Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children (Liverpool, The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1917), volume 1
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CALL FOR PAPERS
We're delighted to release our Call for Papers for Michaelmas Term. Our workshop is a great opportunity for postgrads to present research in a friendly space - with refreshments!
Deadline: 1st September 2024
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A few reflections on running the 50 stories for 50 years series to mark the 50th Anniversary of @ChuArchives over the last year.⬇️
As we bring our 50 stories for 50 years series to a close, we reflect on some of the stories told by our researchers, staff, & volunteers about the Archives Centre.🎉
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors!🌟
#AC50 #archives
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We at the Modern British History Workshop would like to thank all the amazing contributors who have made the 2023/24 workshop such a success! It’s been a joy to hear so many exciting and fascinating papers.
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I'm very pleased to share that yesterday I passed my viva! 🎉
A huge thank you to my examiners @PeterMandler1 and Penny Tinkler for a stimulating discussion about scrapbooking.📚✂️
Thank you also to my wonderful supervisor @suff66 for her expertise, support and inspiration.
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Beyond excited to share my first article on the history of biodiversity and @kewgardens 🌺 Grappling with the question of how the biodiversity crisis has been both a great responsibility and a valuable opportunity for botanic gardens 👀 #envhist #envhum #history #biodiversity
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @isobelakerman's "'A Great Responsibility': Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" from the July 2024 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity
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Wonderful reflections from Simon Szreter at his valedictory lecture, on growing up with a Warsaw uprising father and civic roles for history
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And that’s a wrap! The four of us have now signed off as conveners of the @CamCulturalHist ! Thank you to everyone involved in the last two years! #cambridge #culturalhistory #workshop
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In this week’s blog post, Rebecca Goldsmith (@relgoldsmith) considers the nature of popular testimony in the Mass-Observation archive' ?
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‘A crowd’s-eye view’. Our latest blogpost looks at a newly acquired photograph of the notorious @Cambridge_Uni vote on women’s degrees that took place on this day, 21 May 1897.
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We are looking forward to another meeting of the workshop this Thursday. @Molly_Groarke and @dmajer347 will be speaking.
5pm, Arthur Quiller-Couch Room in the St John’s Old Divinity School.
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Proofs corrected and sent! It’s been fun working with Paul R and the contributors (incl @history_griffin @Gentlemanrower @HistorianHelen @TomCrewe1 @KathrynRix @MLedgerLomas @joannalewisnews), all of whom have delivered the goods in the best tradition of our honorand @JonParryHis
The Modern British History Seminar is back this week with a paper from @Emily_Baughan entitled 'Neonates, neoliberalism and nurseries in contemporary Britain'.
Join us on Thursday at 5pm in the Lightfoot Room at the Old Divinity School @stjohnscam
ALT MAY 16 Neonates, neoliberalism and nurseries in contemporary Britain Emily Baughan (Sheffield) This session is in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.
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Do register if you’re interested in institutional cultures & storytelling. I will be talking about diplomatic life-writing as ‘para-history’
Registration still open for the latest in our @HistoryPolicy @ihr_history @FCDOHistorians 'Official Histories' online seminar series, tomorrow, 15 May. We'll be discussing the memoirs of public servants with @HistorianHelen & Dennis C Grube @BennettInst. history.ac.uk/events/memoirs…
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Very excited about today's lecture mapping the @camhistory Regius Chairs in History - the fabulous Ludmilla Jordanova: ‘The Monarch’s History Men: What Has Changed Over Three Centuries?’
Buckingham House, Murray Edwards 5pm. All welcome
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EASTER TERM CARD
We are delighted to reveal our programme for the Easter term. Our workshops are at 5pm on Thursdays in the Arthur Quiller-Couch Room in the Old Divinity School at St John's.
All are warmly welcome to attend!
The Modern British History Seminar is back this week with a paper from Syeda Ali (@furwa) entitled '(Re)constructing Collective Memory: Cultural Representations of Section 28'.
Join us on Thursday at 5pm in the Castlereagh Room! @stjohnscam
ALT APRIL 25 (Re)constructing Collective Memory: Cultural Representations of Section 28 Thursday 25th April Syeda Ali (Cambridge) This session is in the Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John’s College MAY 16 Neonates, neoliberalism and nurseries in contemporary Britain Emily Baughan (Sheffield) This session is in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.
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Excited to speak at this seminar next week! Come along to hear more about Mass-Observation, Labour and the politics of class at the 1945 General Election
The Parliaments, Politics and People seminar is back for a new term next week!
Next Tues Rebecca Goldsmith will be discussing Mass-Observation and popular politics at the 1945 #GeneralElection. Read about Rebecca's paper and find out how to join us here:
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