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News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
@camhistory.bsky.socialExplore this year's prize-winning undergraduate History dissertations at Cambridge👏
Not only do the dissertations reach a remarkably high standard, but the subjects explored show the extraordinary range of questions that undergraduate historians can pursue.
@echistsoc.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialNew Data Prize! Application Deadline 1 December 2026.
The EHS is pleased to offer a new biennial prize for outstanding contributions to creating, compiling, and sharing data and information in economic history.
#EHS100
Further info and to apply:
ehs.org.uk/award/data-p...
@chikatonooka.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialJust set up Bluesky... because my book is now out in the US and as an e-book. (Coming to the UK on 1 December!) 30% discount code P329 at press.princeton.edu. @princetonupress.bsky.social
@camhistory.bsky.socialJohn Iliffe obituary in @theguardian.com credits a "pioneering historian who transformed the study of Africa by seeking out the testimonies of Africans".
"...His work was regarded internationally as the model of what engaged research should be..."
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialThe programme for this term's #MondaySeminar has been published on the seminar's website.
@camedieval.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialMichaelmas 2026 programme for the Cambridge Medieval History Research Seminar! 📜
🕒 All sessions start at 4.00pm. #Medievalsky #Medievalists #Cambridge
@camhistory.bsky.social@camhistory.bsky.socialProfessor Alvin Jackson joins Cambridge as inaugural Childers Professor of Irish History and a Fellow @christscollegecam.bsky.social.
He brings extensive expertise in modern Irish and British history, particularly the history of home rule, union and unionism in Ireland, the UK & beyond.
News link⬇
@irishstudiescam.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialWe are delighted to share the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies (CGIS) seminar series programme for Michaelmas Term 2026 with our first meeting on Tuesday, 27th October. All seminars take place on Tuesdays at 5:30 pm (Cambridge time) in person at Magdalene College, with a hybrid option via Zoom.
@lucydelap.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialNew academic year, revived Modern Cultural History seminar! A highlight of Cambridge for me, and I hope you'll join me, Peter Mandler, Holly Smith and Tania Shew next week for Simon Gunn, Oct 7 5pm.
‘The 'British Invasion' Revisited: Exporting Pop in the 1960s’
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
@camhistory.bsky.social🔊 Listen to Dr Duncan Needham (@darwincollegecam.bsky.social & Cambridge Centre for Financial History) interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Archive on 4 programme about Britain's IMF crisis in the 1970s ⬇️
@chuarchives.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.social⏰️ TONIGHT at 5.30pm, open to all. Bill Whiteside will discuss his new book about the sinking of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir in July 1940, in conversation with Director of Churchill Archives Centre.
In the Jock Colville Hall at Churchill College. No need to book, just turn up.
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@alexislitvine.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.social❗Big update on our French GIS data ❗All historical railways, stations, rivers, canals, all administrative units and population back to 1790s now available on Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.3727273. Check out the data papers (more to come soon) here: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
@ghilondon.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialIt's the beginning of a new term and we're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our Autumn/Winter Lecture Series 2026! 🍂 1/3
@harryspillane.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialOUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
Pictured here at Emmanuel College beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @newnhamcollege.bsky.social
table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing
@camhistory.bsky.socialDiscover the winning and shortlisted entries in this year’s student Art and Photography Competition:
@camhistory.bsky.social▶ Art Runners-Up: Zara Kiss (History BA): 'Puppet Shop' Lyra Browning (History BA @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social): 'The Chimney, Redrawn' ▶ Photography Runners-Up: Ruth Sisask (MPhil @girtoncollege.bsky.social): 'Memories of a Swan' Edward Morgan (History BA): 'Welcome Distraction'
@camhistory.bsky.social▶ Photography Winner: Joshua Shortman (MPhil @christscollegecam.bsky.social & History BA @caiuscollege.bsky.social): 'Trinity Lane, October '23 - April '24' ▶ Art Winner: Lizzie Phelan @lizphe.bsky.social (History BA @corpuscambridge.bsky.social): 'Pembroke College in Cinnamon'
@camhistory.bsky.socialStudent Art & Photography Competition 2026: Meet the Winners 👏👏 We invited History students at every stage, from undergraduate to PhD, to submit original artworks and photographs inspired by the histories encountered in their studies, or in the places and experiences that shape life in Cambridge ⬇️
@historianhelen.bsky.socialReposted by @camhistory.bsky.socialI had a very nice time talking about History, writing books and the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social on Ian Pegg’s wonderful Authors of History podcast. Have a listen!
shows.acast.com/authors-of-h...
