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Cambridge History retweeted
🌍 Global Humanities Mobility Scheme – ROUND 5 is now OPEN at @Cambridge_Uni to academics in the School of Arts and Humanities, @CamArtsHums + Faculty of History, @CamHistory
🗓️Deadline: Monday 10th November 2025
More details: globalhumanities.org/mobility-schem…
🗓️Deadline: Monday 10th November 2025
More details: globalhumanities.org/mobility-schem…
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Congratulations to Prof Lucy Delap, appointed new Chair of Cambridge's History Faculty, to succeed Professor Mary Laven on 1 October 2025.
Lucy is Professor of Modern British & Gender History at @Cambridge_Uni and a Fellow of @MECCambridge.
Read more: hist.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-dela…
Lucy is Professor of Modern British & Gender History at @Cambridge_Uni and a Fellow of @MECCambridge.
Read more: hist.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-dela…
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ALUMNI EVENT: What if we could bring major figures from the past into conversation with each other? Listen to 'reanimated' former presidents debate on key themes in American policy
➡️AI Roosevelt vs Reagan Debate
📅26 Sept 11-12
🏢Sidgwick Site
🔗Book now: web-eur.cvent.com/event/b023989b…
➡️AI Roosevelt vs Reagan Debate
📅26 Sept 11-12
🏢Sidgwick Site
🔗Book now: web-eur.cvent.com/event/b023989b…
📢How one Cambridge historian is harnessing AI to scrutinise over three decades of presidential language - with extraordinary results.
PhD student Jacob Forward is using LLMs to analyse a scale of sources seldom attempted in historical research.
🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/history-a…
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Cambridge History retweeted
NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥
Do you want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network?
Join us for informal events to connect. Find out more and apply by 12 Oct 2025
crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connect…
Do you want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network?
Join us for informal events to connect. Find out more and apply by 12 Oct 2025
crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connect…
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Cambridge History retweeted
📚Join us for the launch of "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?", the latest book by political scientist and author Professor James Fishkin.
🗓️Thur 18 Sept
🕠5:30 - 7PM
📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College
Register now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…
#Democracy @Kings_College
🗓️Thur 18 Sept
🕠5:30 - 7PM
📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College
Register now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…
#Democracy @Kings_College
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Cambridge History retweeted
The Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is back - Master and PhD students from all universities (UK and abroad) are welcome to apply!
Deadline to present this fall: 1 October 2025
@CamOceanicHist
@CamHistory
Deadline to present this fall: 1 October 2025
@CamOceanicHist
@CamHistory
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Congratulations to Fernanda Gallo (Associate Prof in History & Politics) recognised by @ECPR in the prestigious Political Theory Book Prize 2025.
Her "stunningly written" book 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought' was awarded an Honourable Mention.
🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/fernanda-…
Her "stunningly written" book 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought' was awarded an Honourable Mention.
🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/fernanda-…
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Cambridge History retweeted
📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26
Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @CamHistory
Apply by 1 Oct 2025
crassh.cam.ac.uk/quentin-skinne…
Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @CamHistory
Apply by 1 Oct 2025
crassh.cam.ac.uk/quentin-skinne…
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📢How one Cambridge historian is harnessing AI to scrutinise over three decades of presidential language - with extraordinary results.
PhD student Jacob Forward is using LLMs to analyse a scale of sources seldom attempted in historical research.
🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/history-a…
PhD student Jacob Forward is using LLMs to analyse a scale of sources seldom attempted in historical research.
🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/history-a…
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Cambridge History retweeted
Something really big happened on this day 1,100 years ago! 🏰
Prof @DavidWoodman45 from @RobinsonCamb @CamHistory thinks someone in English history deserves far greater fame.
Find out why in our full film 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=qDhjvi…
Prof @DavidWoodman45 from @RobinsonCamb @CamHistory thinks someone in English history deserves far greater fame.
Find out why in our full film 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=qDhjvi…
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📢Groundbreaking new biography of Æthelstan, England’s forgotten first king, marks 1100 years since his coronation in 925AD.
Author & Cambridge historian @DavidWoodman45 explains why he isn’t better known & why he's campaigning for greater recognition.
🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/englands-…
Author & Cambridge historian @DavidWoodman45 explains why he isn’t better known & why he's campaigning for greater recognition.
🔗hist.cam.ac.uk/news/englands-…
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📢Your introduction to England's first King?
See the full film on @Cambridge_Uni YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=qDhjvi…
See the full film on @Cambridge_Uni YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=qDhjvi…
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Cambridge History retweeted
A new book by @camhistory @RobinsonCamb Professor David Woodman on The First King of England - Athelstan - is released today. Prominently featured, of course, is the @ParkerLibCCCC CCCC MS 183 image of the king with Saint Cuthbert.
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Cambridge History retweeted
Who was the first king of England? 👑
@DavidWoodman45 thinks more people should know that Æthelstan created England in 927AD – should his story be on the school curriculum?
David makes the case in his groundbreaking new biography 👇
cam.ac.uk/stories/englan…
@RobinsonCamb rLibCCCC
@DavidWoodman45 thinks more people should know that Æthelstan created England in 927AD – should his story be on the school curriculum?
David makes the case in his groundbreaking new biography 👇
cam.ac.uk/stories/englan…
@RobinsonCamb rLibCCCC
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Cambridge History retweeted
📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26
Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @CamHistory
Apply by 1 Oct 2025
crassh.cam.ac.uk/quentin-skinne…
Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @CamHistory
Apply by 1 Oct 2025
crassh.cam.ac.uk/quentin-skinne…
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📢OUT TODAY: 'Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge' by History PhD student Malik Al Nasir.
Painstaking research exposes the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties.
🔗cam.ac.uk/stories/sandba…
Painstaking research exposes the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties.
🔗cam.ac.uk/stories/sandba…
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Cambridge History retweeted
How Malik Al Nasir (@CamHistory PhD candidate at Catz) discovered his links to one of the largest slave-owning families in Britain & the people they enslaved is revealed in ‘Searching For My Slave Roots’ (@WmCollinsBooks) & a new @theUL digital collection: cam.ac.uk/stories/sandba…
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🔎New research identifies 19th-century welfare cuts as a major cause of rise in early-childhood mortality.
The findings -from researchers incl. @CamHistory's @SimonSzreter- reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period.
Read more⬇️
The findings -from researchers incl. @CamHistory's @SimonSzreter- reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period.
Read more⬇️
Now on the Long Run: 'The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales'.
By David Green, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney & Simon Szreter.
@davidrgreenuk @gfgmesevage @SimonSzreter @kclgeography @kingshistory @ihmjhu @stjohnscam
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…
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