Tuesday, 7 May 2024 Professor David A. Brading (1936-2024) News Professor David A. Brading, a prominent historian of Latin America, passed away on 20 April 2024 after a long illness. His works explore the history of Latin America from the colonial era to the emergence of nation-states. Brading pursued his higher education in history at Cambridge and obtained a PhD from the University of London. Following a brief stint as an assistant professor at Yale and California, Brading returned to Cambridge in 1973 to focus on researching and teaching Latin American history. He continued to serve ..read more

Sophia T. C. Feist stcf2 Fri, 03/05/2024 - 09:57 I am a PhD Candidate in History supervised by Professor Ulinka Rublack and funded by the Cambridge Trust. My thesis explores how courts in the Holy Roman Empire between 1470 and 1550 used dress to craft and enact political programmes, and looks in particular at the contributions of court tailors. My research focusses on dress, its making, and its cultural and political meanings. I am currently examining the livery books (Hofkleiderbücher) made by the Bavarian and Electoral Saxon court tailors’ workshops in the first half of the sixteenth centu ..read more

Monday, 29 April 2024 Professor Gary Gerstle elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences News Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus joins illustrious community of innovative thinkers Professor Gary Gerstle has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins notable Academy members from every field of human endeavour, including more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Professor Gerstle - who arrived at the University of Cambridge in 2014 after a three-decade career in the United States - is currently Paul Mellon Professor of Ameri ..read more

Wednesday, 24 April 2024 Open call to help map out London history News New easy-to-use website designed with the University of Cambridge launched to help place fire insurance policies from 1700s to 1865 onto a digital map Aviva’s archive contains more than 325 years of insurance history. After more than two years of digitisation – covering around 550,000 policy entries – this vast resource is now helping to build a clearer picture of how London looked hundreds of years ago.  The Amicable Contributors digital tool is a new crowdsourcing project and website developed ..read more

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