The Sandars Lectures 2021 have been announced: loom.ly/8XXbJcA Our theme focuses on an object so common in our everyday lives we sometimes fail to notice it: Paper. Lectures will be given by Dr Orietta Da Rold, Associate Professor Faculty of English & Fellow St John's College, Cambridge.

This is wonderful news - congrats to Professor Sivasundaram!

This is today! If you're already on the Popular History mailing list, you should find a link to the talk in your inbox. If you're not yet on the mailing list, you can join it here: hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/p… Hope to see you there!

Quick reminder that our second session of the year is running tomorrow from 5pm on Zoom! This time, we'll be talking to Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter about their new book, 'After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future' Sign up here: hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/p…

Happy New Year's Eve! In our final post of the year, our editor-in-chief rounds up some of the year's major events and the DHP posts based around them. See you in the New Year for a return to our normal schedule! doinghistoryinpublic.org/2021/12/31/doi…

Looking forward to our next session, Wed 16 March, 5pm: ""TV history: History on TV: Dumbing Down or Levelling Up?" with Maddalena Alvi, James Fox Dr James Fox, Karina Urbach - for Zoom details sign up @ lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscrib…

The first Public and Popular History seminar of the term is TODAY! 5pm, Knox Shaw Room in Sidney Sussex. It's a joint seminar with Irish Modern History discussing 'The politics of commemoration in the UK and Ireland'

Please note our rescheduled meeting dates, in solidarity with UCU strike action. The first event of term on YouTube history will now take place on Wednesday 8 February at 5pm!

A quick reminder that our second seminar of term takes place TODAY at 5pm! Prof. Glen O'Hara will be talking about 'The Janus face of New Labour's social policies' at Christ's College, Yusuf Hamied Theatre.

Correction: This event is being postponed!

Our rescheduled talk by Glen O'Hara takes place today at 5.15pm in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Join us there for a discussion of 'The Janus face of New Labour's social policies'!

Our first event of term is happening *TODAY* at 5pm in Sidney Sussex! The historian and playwright Katherine Moar will be in conversation with David Reynolds about the relationship between history and theatre. Our term card for the rest of 2023 is also attached!

Reminder that our next seminar takes place *tomorrow* at 5pm in Sidney Sussex! Join us for a discussion about presenting the Northern Ireland Troubles on screen and in museums, hosted by Alice McKimm (she/her) and Prof. Eugenio Biagini