@CamHistory

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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…
Prof Jenny Mander (MMLL) at Nanjing University, China - 2024

ALT Prof Jenny Mander (MMLL) at Nanjing University, China - 2024

Dr Felipe Hernandez (Architecture) at University Diego Portales, Chile - 2023

ALT Dr Felipe Hernandez (Architecture) at University Diego Portales, Chile - 2023

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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…
Professor Lucy Delap appointed new Chair of University of Cambridge's History Faculty

ALT Professor Lucy Delap appointed new Chair of University of Cambridge's History Faculty

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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@CamHistory4 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-…
AI generated image of US Presidents Roosevelt and Reagan

ALT AI generated image of US Presidents Roosevelt and Reagan

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CRASSH, Cambridge@CRASSHlive9 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…
CRASSH Connections, apply by 12 October.

ALT CRASSH Connections, apply by 12 October.

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📚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…
Fernanda Gallo, Associate Professor in History and Politics at the University of Cambridge, has been recognised by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in the Political Theory Book Prize 2025. Gallo’s book, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2024), was awarded an Honourable Mention by the Prize Jury.

ALT Fernanda Gallo, Associate Professor in History and Politics at the University of Cambridge, has been recognised by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in the Political Theory Book Prize 2025. Gallo’s book, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2024), was awarded an Honourable Mention by the Prize Jury.

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CRASSH, Cambridge@CRASSHlive5 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…
Quentin Skinner Lectureship, apply by 1 October 2025.

ALT Quentin Skinner Lectureship, apply by 1 October 2025.

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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-…
AI generated image of US Presidents Roosevelt and Reagan

ALT AI generated image of US Presidents Roosevelt and Reagan

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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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📢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…
Prof David Woodman with the portrait of Æthelstan. Credit: The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,

ALT Prof David Woodman with the portrait of Æthelstan. Credit: The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,

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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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Corpus Christi@CorpusCambridge2 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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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
An open ancient manuscript showing a depiction of the portrait of Æthelstan in CCCC MS 183, a 10th-century manuscript in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. A text overlay beneath the manuscript reads: "Who was England's first king?"

ALT An open ancient manuscript showing a depiction of the portrait of Æthelstan in CCCC MS 183, a 10th-century manuscript in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. A text overlay beneath the manuscript reads: "Who was England's first king?"

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CRASSH, Cambridge@CRASSHlive29 Aug 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…
Quentin Skinner Lectureship, apply by 1 October 2025.

ALT Quentin Skinner Lectureship, apply by 1 October 2025.

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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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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…
Malik Al Nasir

ALT Malik Al Nasir

Part of a handwritten letter from Charles Stuart Parker of McInroy Parker and Co., Glasgow, to Samuel Sandbach of Sandbach Tinne and Co., Liverpool, 16 November 1815

ALT Part of a handwritten letter from Charles Stuart Parker of McInroy Parker and Co., Glasgow, to Samuel Sandbach of Sandbach Tinne and Co., Liverpool, 16 November 1815

Cover design for 'Searching for My Slave Roots' by Malik Al Nasir

ALT Cover design for 'Searching for My Slave Roots' by Malik Al Nasir

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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@EcHistSocReview20 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/…

The Economic History Review | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts...

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