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Hubertus Jahn Faculty of History University of Cambridge
WEBHubertus Jahn. I am a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union with a strong interdisciplinary track record. My research and teaching cover all periods of Russian history and culture, and some aspects of Eastern European history. More recently I have developed an interest in New Imperial History with a particular focus on the South …
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Dr Emily Snyder Faculty of History University of Cambridge
WEBDr Emily Snyder. Mellon Research Fellow in American History. I am a historian of the twentieth-century Americas, and my research and emphasizes the inter-connected histories and peoples of the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States. I earned my PhD from Yale University in 2021. My dissertation, entitled “Entangling Revolutions
Post-urban gardening, now and in the Middle Ages
WEBCaroline Goodson. My new book, Cultivating the city in early medieval Italy (2021) examines the social, economic, and political values of food-gardening in Italy in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-c.1050). I was spurred to look at food-growing in medieval cities when I spent some time in Berkeley, California. I saw the urban cooperatives growing food in …
Mary Augusta Brazelton Faculty of History University of …
WEBMary Augusta Brazelton. Associate Member, World History Subject Group, Faculty of History. University Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Affiliated Lecturer in East Asian Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Research Fellow, Needham Research Institute. I am University Lecturer in Global Studies of
Early Modern Britain Faculty of History University of …
WEBEarly Modern Britain. Course Material 2023/24. The period between c.1500 and c.1750 was a dramatic and tumultuous chapter in the history of the British Isles. Against the backdrop of the dynasties of the Tudors and Stuarts, it witnessed transformative changes in government and administration under Henry VIII, descended into bitter civil wars
Viv and Daph’s educational roads to nursing: reflections …
WEBBy Laura Carter This summer Chris Jeppesen and I have begun working in the archives of the 1958 and 1946 British birth cohort studies, respectively. This involves us collecting qualitative information from the original questionnaires of these studies, especially from the school-age ‘sweeps’, for a sample of 150 individuals. I won’t go into the details […]
Professor Simon Szreter
WEBModern Social, Family, Gender and Demographic History and Policy. Completed PhD students have worked on: Male Legislators and Women's Rights in Britain 1866-86; the Family and Health Policy in Bulgaria, 1918-44; The role of Residents’ and Housing Associations in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5; The reception of Yoga and Ayurveda …
How to use Historical Sources
WEBIn each unit you will find a brief introduction to the period followed by documentary and visual source material. The sources are followed by some questions to help you make sense of what you are looking at, and you will then be invited to take all the sources of that unit together and to think about what they definitely show, what they might
Making sense of sickness in medieval and early modern …
WEBWhen I began my PhD in Michaelmas 2017, I did not picture myself spending long afternoons reading horoscopes. My thesis, I had decided, would look at ‘frenzy’, a disease state which was observed, discussed, suffered, and treated across Europe and the Middle East from antiquity long into the early modern era.
Mr Scott Mandelbrote Faculty of History University of …
WEBI offer a course on the history of the book to students for the Early Modern M.Phil. and convene a topics paper in Part IB ('Nature and Knowledge, 1500-1800') and an advanced topic in Part II ('The Politics of Knowledge from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment'), as well as teaching more broadly across themes in early modern history …
Pandemic Television: It’s a Sin and the Public History of HIV/AIDS …
WEBCambridge, which had a significant resistance movement to Section 28, also became home to an ACT UP chapter. It met on the last Sunday of every month in the City’s radical independent bookshop Grapevine, which operated out of the old Dales Brewery building on Gwydir Street, and which many readers may remember.
The 1848 Revolutions Faculty of History University of Cambridge
WEBThe single most striking feature of the 1848 revolutions was their simultaneity. This was the only truly European revolution that there has ever been. Neither the great French revolution of 1789, nor the 1830 revolutions that began in Paris, not the Paris Commune of 1870, nor the Russian Revolutions of 1917 achieved this effortless cascading from one state to the …
The Crisis of the Meritocracy
WEBThe Crisis of the Meritocracy. Oxford University Press, September 2020. This book tells the story of how Britain became in the span of just a few generations a mass education society. Before the war, only about 20% of the population had any experience of secondary school and barely 2% of higher education; after the war, secondary education
Professor Tim Harper Faculty of History University of Cambridge
WEBTim Harper's research interests centre on the history of modern Southeast Asia and the region's global connections. His first book, The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya (1999), was a study of war, communist rebellion and the achievement of independence in Malaya and Singapore.Since then, he has published, with Christopher Bayly, a two …
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
WEBRanging from the earliest times to the present, Mark B. Smith's new book is a history of this 'Russia Anxiety'. Whether ally or enemy, superpower or failing state, Russia grips our imagination and fuels our fears unlike any other country. This book shows how history itself offers a clearer view and a better future. Smith, Mark B. The Russia
The Divine Right of Kings: 4
WEBIn the Scriptures kings are called gods, and so their power after a certain relation compared to the divine power. Kings are also compared to fathers of families, for a king is truly parens patriae, the politic father of his people. And lastly, kings are compared to the head of this microcosm of the body of man.
Health and Safety Policy
WEB2.1 Corporate responsibility for Health and Safety rests within the University with the Council and the General Board. The Chair of the Faculty is responsible for implementation of University Health and Safety policy within the Faculty. 2.2 The Chair has delegated in writing the role of the Safety Officer to Mr Steve Corbett.
British Economic and Social History, 1700-1880
WEBCourse Material 2021/22. This paper covers the economic, social and cultural history of Britain from 1700 to 1880. This period saw more dramatic and fundamental changes in the lives of the population than any previous period of similar, or indeed much longer length. At the heart of economic change was the Industrial Revolution, generally seen
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