The Modern British History Seminar is back this week with a paper from Syeda Ali (ふわ) entitled '(Re)constructing Collective Memory: Cultural Representations of Section 28'. Join us on Thursday at 5pm in the Castlereagh Room! St John's College, Cambridge

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!

Do register if you’re interested in institutional cultures & storytelling. I will be talking about diplomatic life-writing as ‘para-history’

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

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 St John's College, Cambridge

Proofs corrected and sent! It’s been fun working with Paul R and the contributors (incl Ben Griffin Matthew Cragoe Helen McCarthy Tom Crewe Dr Kathryn Rix Michael Ledger-Lomas joannalewis), all of whom have delivered the goods in the best tradition of our honorand Jon Parry

We are looking forward to another meeting of the workshop this Thursday. Molly Groarke and Danny Majerowicz will be speaking. 5pm, Arthur Quiller-Couch Room in the St John’s Old Divinity School.

‘A crowd’s-eye view’. Our latest blogpost looks at a newly acquired photograph of the notorious Cambridge University vote on women’s degrees that took place on this day, 21 May 1897. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28325

In this week’s blog post, Rebecca Goldsmith (Rebecca Goldsmith) considers the nature of popular testimony in the Mass-Observation archive' ?

We have organised BSL interpreters from ManchesterDeafCentre (Alex McDonald and Russ Andrews) and STTR (live text). Please join us in person or online to find out more about Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent histories ✨

I'm very pleased to share that yesterday I passed my viva! 🎉 A huge thank you to my examiners Peter Mandler and Penny Tinkler for a stimulating discussion about scrapbooking.📚✂️ Thank you also to my wonderful supervisor [email protected] for her expertise, support and inspiration.

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

Wonderful reflections from Simon Szreter at his valedictory lecture, on growing up with a Warsaw uprising father and civic roles for history

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

A few reflections on running the 50 stories for 50 years series to mark the 50th Anniversary of Churchill Archives Centre over the last year.⬇️

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.

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

On #WorldPopulationDay influential Cambridge research group CAMPOP 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/

Great to see the amazing Caribbean elements of the Royal Commonwealth Society collection Cambridge University Library for NYCTC, introduced by Michael Joseph

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!