Delighted to have an article in this month's @historytoday.com The article explores the 1951 Hans Crescent Strike, the post-war history of colonial students in the UK, and the British Council's attempt to use them for imperial soft power. www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

'The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I' by Professor Clare Jackson wins 2026 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, beating a “formidable” shortlist 👏👏 The judges praised "a masterwork by a historian uniquely equipped to reinterpret James VI and I and his times".

Thanks to our Chief Custodian Steve Corbett for setting us up with a summer lunch spot while the Faculty is out of the Stirling Building 👏👏 Hoping all will gather in the Sidgwick Lodge garden while the summer weather is here 🔥

We are very sad to announce the death, after a short illness, of our colleague Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Professor Emerita of Medieval History and Emerita Fellow of @sidneysussex.bsky.social (31 May 1949 – 13 June 2026). Colleagues and students pay tribute: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

We lost Rosamond McKitterick, a great scholar, a great teacher, and a great human being, far too early. This has been hard to write, but thinking about her, who she was and the person she chose to be can never bring me anything but joy. #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a...

'Francis Bacon and the crisis of the palatinate' Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June https://bit.ly/442lfre Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL) will discuss Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War

Dwarfed by the 1960s cold war bunker, Murray Edwards historians visit the Centre for Material Culture, in what would have been the post nuclear strike seat of government for the East of England - now a listed building

Rosamond McKitterick (1949-2026) A formidable scholar, an inspiring teacher, a generous spirit and a supportive colleague - truly, we have lost one of the great ones. @sidneysussex.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @camedieval.bsky.social

Holding it Together: Making, maintaining and mending from the Early Modern to the present 🪡 25-26 June Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4e6qX1h Makers, menders, artists, curators and historians will put early modern preservation cultures into conversation with contemporary practice

It was a huge pleasure to record this podcast episode on Offa with Jamie and Zee from the British History Podcast: www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/an-offa-inte...

📢 Historian Melissa Calaresu (@caiuscollege.bsky.social) & co-editor Victoria Avery (@camunivmuseums.bsky.social) win Association for the Study of Food and Society’s 2026 Book Award for The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification. This recognises best recent book published in food studies 👏

I am thrilled to invite you to the book launch of The Sons of St Augustine taking place at 5pm on Wednesday 17th June in Old Hall at Queens', with a fantastic lineup of presenters! Followed by a drinks reception, too. All are welcome, and no registration is needed. Please share widely!

Final symposium TODAY: Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century ⬇️⬇️ @mollygroarke.bsky.social @sallyholloway.bsky.social @brendantam.bsky.social

Prof Eugenio Biagini elected to the Academia Europaea recognising his outstanding contributions to research 👏👏 Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Fellow of @sidneysussex.bsky.social, is a leading historian of liberalism and democracy, with a particular focus on Irish history.

This week!

Still time to register for our event on Thursday (in-person & virtual) on lessons on ageing from the early modern world.

I am delighted to share my podcast episode on the World Turned Upside Down is out today! ⚔️ Tune in to learn more about the role of the lower ranks in Newark-on-Trent and the Royalist cause! #skystorian #earlymodern

Dr Sam Zeitlin will deliver the 2026 Quentin Skinner Lecture at the University of Cambridge on 19 June 2026!✨ Francis Bacon and the Crisis of the Palatinate explores Bacon’s responses to the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War. Register here: shorturl.at/jX40S #FrancisBacon #CambridgeUniversity

'United States of America at 250' marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This major event on 29 May also launched the Centre for the United States of America at Cambridge (CUSAC), Cambridge's new intellectual home for research and teaching on the United States ⬇️

On Thursday 25th June we are hosting an introduction day for anyone considering a career in archives, records management or conservation. Contact [email protected] for further details and to sign up to attend #archives #archivesconservation #recordsmanagement

Now online! @sylvana-tomaselli.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social) reviews "Tocqueville" by Françoise Mélonio www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now on Early View: 'Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815'. By John Broad. @camunicampop.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

A tremendous range of forthcoming books from @camhistory.bsky.social! Honoured to be in such great company 📚

✍️ Would you like focused time to write? Would you benefit from joining a writing community? If so, take part in one of our CRASSH writing weeks! 🗓️ 6 - 10 July 2026 Apply at https://bit.ly/3Qc8AOO, no proposals or references are required

Explore new books from Cambridge historians: ➡Selling the Word of God by @harryspillane.bsky.social ➡The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States ed. by @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social ➡Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul by @extispex.bsky.social Discover more⬇️

📣🎙️ The Latinoamericanist Podcast is now live! Conversations across languages, cultures and borders from the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. Hosted by David Lehmann.

Please join us on Thurs 4 June at 5pm when @mattinbiglari.bsky.social will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar (jointly with the World History Seminar) on 'Nationalising Oil & Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation & Colonial Modernity, 1933-51'. Click for abstract and further details.

📣 Apply now for the Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2027 The Lectureship will suit an early career scholar who is able to visit Cambridge in Spring 2027, and hold a lecture on a subject in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 https://bit.ly/3js4P7Z ⏳ 15 June @camhistory.bsky.social

Dr Jethro Calacday, Postdoctoral Affiliate in the History Faculty, has been awarded the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 👏👏 SHAFR described the article as “a major contribution to U.S. foreign relations history…” Link below ⬇️

Meet Professor Shruti Kapila, who has brought Indian political thought to @cam.ac.uk – and with it, new insights into the political phenomenon of our age. Read more in the latest edition of Cambridge Alumni Magazine @yourscambridge.bsky.social ⬇️ www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...

📢 Clare Jackson, Hon Professor of Early Modern History @cam.ac.uk on BBCRadio4 InOurTime with @tmbejan.bsky.social & @tedvallance.bsky.social. They discuss the Levellers, political radicals who pioneered petitions and pamphlets to reimagine the English constitution. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

PhD student Adèle Wright named runner-up in "Snapshots of Doctoral Success" photo competition 👏 She explains 🔎 “This photo bridges the chasm between the expectations of the Academy and knowledge from materiality inspired by Indigenous Oceanic methodologies. It thus represents doctoral success”… ⬇️⬇️

My Pimlott lecture is available to read open access! It argues two things: that everyday understandings of old age are profoundly shaped by family relationships; and that how we narrate those intimate ties has changed in important ways over the past fifty years. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Can't quite believe this has finally arrived - thanks again to all the brilliant contributors, and the editorial and production folks who made it happen. Will paste the 30% off code below in case you'd like a copy

Please join us on 26 May at 5pm when Charles Troup (@ihr.bsky.social) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'The spread of environmental cost-benefit analysis in UK government, c.1966-1995: representing the public in the Anthropocene'. Click for further details.

📢 Cambridge History Faculty is now on Instagram 🙌 Follow life in the Faculty: research, events and archives to student life, opportunities and application advice. For current students, staff, alumni, prospective applicants or anyone passionate about history. 🔗 direct link in comments ⤵️

Helen McCarthy, Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History @cam.ac.uk, has joined the judging panel for the Wolfson History Prize 👏👏 @historianhelen.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social

‪Cambridge Histories of Marronage workshop TODAY with @daroldcuba.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️

Sujit Sivasundaram’s Waves Across the South has received an Honourable Mention ("Accessit") in the inaugural Zeev Sternhell Prize for the History of the Revolution👏 The book was ranked 2nd among works published globally on the French Revolution and broader Age of Revolutions over the past 5 years.

Some news!

We are thrilled to share our Easter Termcard! As always, if you have any questions or would like the link to join us remotely, please feel free to get in touch!

So pleased/grateful that my HJ article has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Early Career Article Prize alongside such fantastic pieces from last year!

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW: 'Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible' - £25 A study of how the English Bible became a bestseller, charting the innovations, errors, rivalries and bankruptcies behind the 'book of books' Coming September 2026 tinyurl.com/2p3cdmwp

📣 Apply now for the Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2027 The Lectureship will suit an early career scholar who is able to visit Cambridge in Spring 2027, and hold a lecture on a subject in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 https://bit.ly/3js4P7Z ⏳ 15 June @camhistory.bsky.social

250 years on, what is the legacy of the US Declaration of Independence? Everyone is welcome at this free event bringing together leading scholars, journalists, artists and politicians. https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-united-states-of-america-at-250

If you're anywhere near Cambridge on May 29th, come see Jamelle Bouie, Martha Jones, Heather Thompson & other starry speakers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tickets are *free* but nearly gone so hit the link below asap www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...

WORKSHOP TODAY 👉 As part of a larger project on a Global Black Atlantic family, Professor Nemata Blyden (University of Virginia) will look at members of the family who settled in Liberia in the 19th century. 🔎 How can we understand their experience if looked at through the lens of marronage?

📢 Approaching fast: join Professor Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews) next week for the first of the Seeley Lectures. These are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in political thought and its history. Her four lectures start next week on 19 & 21 May ⬇️⬇️

💫 25th anniversary event: Global History Lab’s Narrative Observatories in Action Bottom‑up, globally scaled social science in action, which explores narratives as a tool for understanding fracture and building connection 15 May 9.30-12.45 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4d8p2ZP

Our Easter Term Card is out 🌊 Join our mailing list to receive updates: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr... @camhistory.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory