Thursday, 11 April 2024 Britain industrialised over a century earlier than history books claim News Britain was well on its way to an industrialised economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century – over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial Revolution – according to the most detailed occupational history of a state ever created. Image Images: details from a coloured etching, Wellcome Collection.  Built from more than 160 million records and spanning over three centuries, the University of Cambridge’s Economies Past website uses census ..read more

Monday, 16 October 2023 Deadline Approaching: 2024 Robert Silver Prize in Modern British Jewish History News The Robert Silver Prize invites essay submissions on a subject related to the impact of British Jewry on 20th century Britain. Essays should be no more than 8,000 words and should include a summary version of 500 words. The winner will receive £1,000 and a short version of the winning essay will be published in the Jewish Chronicle. Eligibility Submissions are welcomed from undergraduate and postgraduate students, young academics, journalists and writers. Applicants ..read more

Apeike Umolu au276 Fri, 15/03/2024 - 10:31 Apeike is a historian of political thought of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her research focuses of exploring theories of nation, state, and citizenship in the pan-African world. Apeike is a PhD candidate. She is currently both an Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholar in the Faculty of History and an Alexander Crummell PhD Scholar at Queens’ College. Her thesis is on the intellectual history of patriotism in the nineteenth-century pan-African world. Prior to her PhD, she completed an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellect ..read more

Tuesday, 12 March 2024 Dr Federica Gigante discovers medieval astrolabe linking Islamic and Jewish science News Dr Federica Gigante’s discovery of a medieval astrolabe held in a museum in Verona, Italy, has attracted considerable international attention, with articles in TheTimes, The Guardian, Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, El Pais, Le Monde, and The New York Times, among others.  Dr Gigante, research associate at the Faculty of History, has recently published an article in Nuncius which shows how the eleventh-century astronomical instrument ..read more

Thursday, 7 March 2024 Dr Helen Pfeifer wins 2024 Pilkington Prize News Helen Pfeifer, University Associate Professor in Early Ottoman History, has won the 2024 Pilkington Prize,  which is awarded annually to members of staff in recognition of their contributions to teaching excellence. The awards were initiated by Sir Alastair Pilkington who believed that the quality of teaching was crucial to the University’s success. Dr Pfeifer is an outstanding teacher of History, whose courses are always oversubscribed. She made a key contribution to the reform of Part I of the Historical ..read more

Wednesday, 6 March 2024 Professor Rublack to deliver Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lecture series at CEU News The Departments of History and Medieval Studies at CEU are delighted to announce the program for the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2024. The lectures will be given by Professor Ulinka Rublack from the University of Cambridge, on the subject of Dürer’s Dress: Subject and Object in the Renaissance. For full details, please visit our website, and read an interview about the upcoming lecture series and Ulinka Rublack’s work on Albrecht Dürer and the si ..read more

Wednesday, 6 March 2024 Professor Rublack to deliver CEU lecture series in Vienna News The Departments of History and Medieval Studies at CEU are delighted to announce the program for the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2024. The lectures will be given by Professor Ulinka Rublack from the University of Cambridge, on the subject of Dürer’s Dress: Subject and Object in the Renaissance. For full details, please visit our website, and read an interview about the upcoming lecture series and Ulinka Rublack’s work on Albrecht Dürer and the significance of clothing ..read more

300th anniversary of the Regius Professorship jar35 Mon, 26/02/2024 - 12:05 The Monarch's History Men: What has changed over three centuries? Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham) The event will be chaired by the current Regius Professor, Professor Christopher Clark Tue, 14/05/2024 - 17:00 - Tue, 14/05/2024 - 18:30 Buckingham House Murray Edwards College Cambridge CB3 0DF Image ..read more

Daniel Gilman dg630 Tue, 27/02/2024 - 07:14 I am a second-year PhD candidate at St John's College, in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. I study public speaking in history, exploring both elites speakers and marginalised voices. My dissertation specifically explores public speaking in the campaign to end the British transatlantic slave trade. This research includes methodological best practices for historians researching the non-verbal elements of speech. My research found a woman-orator who contemporaries celebrated by for her impact and eloquence against the slave trad ..read more

Dr Federica Gigante mjw205 Thu, 22/02/2024 - 14:23 Gigante ..read more