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Cambridge History @CamHistory
24 Sep 2025
We’ve moved! This account won’t be updated anymore. You can follow us on: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/camhistory.… LinkedIn: linkedin.com/school/history-…
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🌍 Global Humanities Mobility Scheme – ROUND 5 is now OPEN at @Cambridge_Uni to academics in the School of Arts and Humanities, @CamArtsHums Faculty of History, @CamHistory 🗓️Deadline: Monday 10th November 2025 More details: globalhumanities.org/mobilit…
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Congratulations to Prof Lucy Delap, appointed new Chair of Cambridge's History Faculty, to succeed Professor Mary Laven on 1 October 2025. Lucy is Professor of Modern British & Gender History at @Cambridge_Uni and a Fellow of @MECCambridge. Read more: hist.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-del…
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ALUMNI EVENT: What if we could bring major figures from the past into conversation with each other? Listen to 'reanimated' former presidents debate on key themes in American policy ➡️AI Roosevelt vs Reagan Debate 📅26 Sept 11-12 🏢Sidgwick Site 🔗Book now: web-eur.cvent.com/event/b023…
Cambridge History @CamHistory
4 Sep 2025
📢How one Cambridge historian is harnessing AI to scrutinise over three decades of presidential language - with extraordinary results. PhD student Jacob Forward is using LLMs to analyse a scale of sources seldom attempted in historical research. 🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/history-…
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CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive
9 Sep 2025
NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥 Do you want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network? Join us for informal events to connect. Find out more and apply by 12 Oct 2025 crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-conn…
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Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS
21 Aug 2025
📚Join us for the launch of "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?", the latest book by political scientist and author Professor James Fishkin. 🗓️Thur 18 Sept 🕠5:30 - 7PM 📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College Register now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun… #Democracy @Kings_College
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The Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is back - Master and PhD students from all universities (UK and abroad) are welcome to apply! Deadline to present this fall: 1 October 2025 @CamOceanicHist @CamHistory
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Congratulations to Fernanda Gallo (Associate Prof in History & Politics) recognised by @ECPR in the prestigious Political Theory Book Prize 2025. Her "stunningly written" book 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought' was awarded an Honourable Mention. 🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/fernanda…
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CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive
5 Sep 2025
📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26 Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @CamHistory Apply by 1 Oct 2025 crassh.cam.ac.uk/quentin-ski…
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📢How one Cambridge historian is harnessing AI to scrutinise over three decades of presidential language - with extraordinary results. PhD student Jacob Forward is using LLMs to analyse a scale of sources seldom attempted in historical research. 🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/history-…
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Cambridge University
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4 Sep 2025
Something really big happened on this day 1,100 years ago! 🏰 Prof @DavidWoodman45 from @RobinsonCamb @CamHistory thinks someone in English history deserves far greater fame. Find out why in our full film 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=qDhjvi-4…
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📢Your introduction to England's first King? See the full film on @Cambridge_Uni YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=qDhjvi-4…
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📢Groundbreaking new biography of Æthelstan, England’s forgotten first king, marks 1100 years since his coronation in 925AD. Author & Cambridge historian @DavidWoodman45 explains why he isn’t better known & why he's campaigning for greater recognition. 🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/englands…
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Corpus Christi @CorpusCambridge
2 Sep 2025
A new book by @camhistory @RobinsonCamb Professor David Woodman on The First King of England - Athelstan - is released today. Prominently featured, of course, is the @ParkerLibCCCC CCCC MS 183 image of the king with Saint Cuthbert.
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Cambridge University
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2 Sep 2025
Who was the first king of England? 👑 @DavidWoodman45 thinks more people should know that Æthelstan created England in 927AD – should his story be on the school curriculum? David makes the case in his groundbreaking new biography 👇 cam.ac.uk/stories/englands-f… @RobinsonCamb @CorpusCambridge @ParkerLibCCCC
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CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive
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📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26 Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @CamHistory Apply by 1 Oct 2025 crassh.cam.ac.uk/quentin-ski…
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📢OUT TODAY: 'Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge' by History PhD student Malik Al Nasir. Painstaking research exposes the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties. 🔗cam.ac.uk/stories/sandbach-t…

Family fortunes founded on slavery: introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection

Family fortunes founded on slavery: introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection

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St Catharine's College @Catz_Cambridge
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How Malik Al Nasir (@CamHistory PhD candidate at Catz) discovered his links to one of the largest slave-owning families in Britain & the people they enslaved is revealed in ‘Searching For My Slave Roots’ (@WmCollinsBooks) & a new @theUL digital collection: cam.ac.uk/stories/sandbach-t…
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🔎New research identifies 19th-century welfare cuts as a major cause of rise in early-childhood mortality. The findings -from researchers incl. @CamHistory's @SimonSzreter- reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period. Read more⬇️
Economic History Review @EcHistSocReview
20 Aug 2025
Now on the Long Run: 'The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales'. By David Green, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney & Simon Szreter. @davidrgreenuk @gfgmesevage @SimonSzreter @kclgeography @kingshistory @ihmjhu @stjohnscam onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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