Remake of whiskey galore looks terrible

Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers 📢 'Moving Out and Moving on in The Post-War Decades: Data & Methods for Researching Young People’s Lives'. It's on 17th May. John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester Deadline for abstract: 22 March History of Education Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood More info 👇

Our next workshop will be held at 5pm Wednesday 28th February in the Junior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College. Please do join the discussion in-person or online! ✨

@ Modern Cultural History seminar members: Alex Robertson is presenting ‘“A Journey Through the Dance Floor”?:  Memory, Reconstructing Space, and the Evolution of the Nightclub in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield’,@ 5pm, Weds 6th March, Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College

Our final workshop of the term will be held at 5pm Wednesday 13th March in the Long Room, Gonville and Caius College. Please join us in person or online! 🩷

Fantastic news for one of the best venues in the city, both for grassroots bands and professional touring outfits

Michael Portillo in his retro Peterhouse boat club jacket talking about Lonnie Donegan, skiffle and Scottish post war folk music clubs whilst in Perth on BBC2 just now. Wasn’t expecting that…

We have a new term card for your delectation. A very special term ahead at the Cambridge Cultural History Workshop, all welcome to attend (zoom links via mailing list). Please share widely!

Please do join us this Wednesday for our second workshop of the term. Email or DM us for the link if you want to join virtually!

Wednesday 5pm, join us in Cambridge at Gonville and Caius college for a very special final cultural history workshop of 23/24 and our last as convenors! We have two fabulous speakers, Ivi Fung from Oxford and Lee Dibben from Royal Holloway University of London. DM for zoom link.

And that’s a wrap! The four of us have now signed off as conveners of the Cambridge Cultural History Workshop ! Thank you to everyone involved in the last two years! #cambridge #culturalhistory #workshop

It was fantastic to attend the final NYCTC conference last weekend, hosted by Jesus College . The group has been an extremely important part of my PhD experience, and I would like to thank everyone at Columbia University, New York University and Cambridge University for all their work!

** CALL FOR CONVENORS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 **

My first article, ‘“We’ve been left out”: women’s refuges in Northern Ireland, 1974-2008’, is out now in Modern British History. It’s a truly inspiring story and I’m grateful to everyone at Women's Aid NI who shared their time and memories. Cambridge History Camb British History academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance-a…

Call for papers! Email us by 1st October with your proposals. We would love to hear from any PGRs with papers on post 1700 cultural history. forms.gle/LevAnc57RjEngU…

Iconic music venue to open new bar taking inspiration from New York’s famous jazz clubs manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music… manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music…

The Cambridge CHW's call for papers remains open until Sunday for papers on post-1700 cultural history! If any PGR is still interested in presenting a paper this year, either in Cambridge or via Microsoft Teams, please contact us via forms.gle/Fa3g221RaRdMTm…. Thanks so much!

Second day of our #CONDE project conference, co-organised by the #IfZ and DAAD Cambridge Hub entitled "Pop History of Deindustrialization: Narratives, Economies, Identities. 'The West' in Global Perspective". Thank you for inspiring debates at Trinity Hall College Cambridge University!

Talks on music, film, TV & a performative sound paper: The Cambridge University conference 'Pop History of Deindustrialization' by Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin & DAAD Cambridge Hub Trinity Hall explored #PopHistory in West, East, and the global: pophistory.hypotheses.org/4702

Thank you to DAAD Cambridge Hub and Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin for a brilliant and stimulating conference on Pop Histories of deindustrialization. I enjoyed presenting on industrial sounds and spaces in the 1980s Sheffield music scene, and meeting some amazing scholars in the field!