🎙 NEW EPISODE: “What plume of feathers is he?” — Love’s Labour’s Lost Feathers signaled wealth, rank, romance, and sometimes ridiculous vanity. This week, Professor Ulinka Rublack @CamHistory explains about plumed hats and the bold identities they created. 🎧 Listen here → cassidycash.com/ep395

Want to know how to move your ideas beyond academia to shape society? 🧰 Learn from leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences who have successfully translated research into real-world products 5 Dec 2025, 12.30-2.30pm 🎟️ Register at bit.ly/3WQVN4M

We look forward to welcoming you *today* Thurs 13 Nov for the Core Seminar in Economic and Social History, at 5:15 PM in St John's Lightfoot Room. Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester) will discuss: 'War and prices: austerity and the cost of living index in Britain (c. 1939-1950)'.

Join us next week, Tues 18th Nov for our second meeting of term. Author and journalist Mark O'Connell will be in conversation with the Guardian's Ireland Correspondent Rory Carroll. All welcome, refreshments will be served. 5pm at the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College

The Legacies of Enslavement Initiative invites you to the launch of Nicolas Bell Romero's The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery - a brilliant overview of Cambridge's links to enslavement. Tuesday 18th Nov, sign up here: tinyurl.com/mpnjrz3m @camhistory.bsky.social

Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you? Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge. www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

We are pleased to announce our next speaker for this term's seminar series! Join us on 18th November for Dr Lorenzo Posocco's talk on his new book. Location 📍:Sociology Seminar Room, Date and time 🕕:12:30-2pm

Applications now open 🎓 Spend 9 weeks at Cambridge University with the CRASSH & @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social, supporting scholars from India in the arts, humanities, and heritage conservation Funding includes travel, accommodation & research expenses Apply by 19 Jan 2026 bit.ly/3tw6OuI

If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

📣 British Academy Early Career Researchers Network launch event Are you an Early Career Researcher? You are invited to the network launch on 24 Nov from 10.30am-5pm at the Cambridge Union, to hear about the fantastic opportunities the network offers Join and register at https://bit.ly/43byupL

Join our research group "Caste as Practice" on 7 November, 4–6 PM (UK time), for a critical conversation on the caste census and the upcoming Bihar elections, featuring Trina Vithayathil, Christophe Guilmoto, YogendraYadav and Jusmeet S. Sihra. Register here: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A successful fieldtrip to the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park, staffed by the enthusiastic NRC volunteers 🙌 Dr Arthur Asseraf and his Special Subject students left inspired by the history, development and future of radio communications. @arthurasseraf.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social

New event! Britain and the Balkans – 30 years after the Dayton Agreement Award-winning filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies’, and head of the FCDO Western Balkans Department Helen Smith, will discuss Britain’s presence in the Balkans. 🗓️20th Nov, 17:00 🗺️Bateman Auditorium, G&C ✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4nsk3EZ

We are sad to report the death of our colleague Professor Ronald Hyam (1936-2025). A former president of @magdalenecollege.bsky.social, college archivist & wide-ranging historian of the British empire & government, Professor Hyam was an active member of the History Faculty from 1960 to retirement.

Great opportunity for history postgrads to do some public-facing work with their research!

📣Out now on #firstview! Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester' #Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very exciting new seminar series on Women's History starting in Cambridge next Tuesday!

Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk. 🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain ⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm 🏢 Vivien Stewart Room Register for free tickets ⬇️

Chris Wickham's 'Framing the early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800' (2005) is widely seen as a milestone in early medieval studies. New research published by Robert Portass, Peter Sarris and Caroline Goodson (@cjg70.bsky.social) now offers a critical response to Wickham’s ideas ⬇️

Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it as if it's happening all over again? Researchers - incl. Professor of Modern History, Alexandra Walsham - have launched a public survey to help unlock the secrets of vivid memory & find ways to help better recall past experiences. Add your memories ⬇️

Our term card is out! 🌊 Join our mailing list at: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

⏰SIX DAYS LEFT to apply for the Cambridge US history job⏰ Thanks to everyone who's already applied; if you're considering an application, NB that we will NOT contact referees unless you're longlisted so you can throw your hat into the ring with minimal hassle networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows. @stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history

Happy to have facilitated this! Oliver Rathkolb of @univie.ac.at presents on 'Controlled Freedom: The Allied Forces in Vienna, 1945-55' to @camgeopolitics.bsky.social and @camhistory.bsky.social at @caiuscollege.bsky.social. @austriainuk.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social RSVP below! 👇👇👇

Join us for the inaugural POLIS Lecture. Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation. 🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm 📍Alison Richard Building Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk

A final reminder that our first meeting of Term is tonight at 5pm! If you're keen to join us online, be sure to join the mailing list before noon to make sure you get the link! lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/h...

If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture. www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...

Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.

📢Check out this term's bulletin of research events relating to Italy happening in Cambridge!

📣Out now on #firstview! Jack Haughton (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Dispelling ‘das Herbert Butterfieldproblem’: A Rereading of The Whig Interpretation of History' #IntellectualHistory #Progress #Positive 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard! We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session! [Please PM us for a plain text termcard]

👏 Dr Ying Dai has won the International Economic History Association prize for best PhD thesis on 20th & 21st-century economic history, globally, over the last 3 years. The @camunicampop.bsky.social student's innovative research opens new opportunities to understand the history of labour in China ⬇️

⛪ 👨‍👨 Next week we’ll be proud to welcome John Arnold from @camhistory.bsky.social , who’ll discuss his recent research into the changing expressions of lay piety found in medieval southern France.

Next week on October 15th, Christopher Clark (@camhistory.bsky.social), Susanne Bauer (@bbaw.bsky.social), @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social, and I will present our four newly published books at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Each book sheds light on a different facet of 19th Century Prussian history.

PhD student Kirstie Stage spent five months at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History thanks to a @ukri.org Fellowship. Researching histories of Deaf & disabled people between the UK & US, she conducted archival work, presented at conferences & learnt American Sign Language (ASL). ⬇️⬇️

🎧 Listen to Mia Bay, Paul Mellon Prof of American History, on the new Intellectual History Podcast. She explores ideas of race since the 19th century, pointing to the place of Thomas Jefferson in Black American thought and the work of campaigner Ida B. Wells ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

The Betty Behrens Seminar resumes at Clare Hall, Cambridge, discussing the works by Benedetto Croce, José de Acosta and Robert Lowth, presented by R. Bellamy, G. Ramos and V. Davis | @camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

In #Cambridge this Thursday? Want to hear how women made the global economy? Do come along to #Heffers to hear me talk about my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (@headlinebooks.bsky.social). Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economica-...

📢 CHANGED DATE AND TIMES! RE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED 📢 Our combined book presentations, will now take place on 15 October 2025 – conveniently all in one day! Please re-register by scanning the QR-code on the posters or fill in the new registration link: forms.office.com/e/wDziGHi7Yi

We are very pleased to announce our Michaelmas 2025 term card - we received some brilliant responses to our theme 'Holding Court' and looking so forward to welcoming our speakers. Catch us (and our wine and cheese 🍷🧀) around St John's on Monday nights!

Excited to be involved with a new research network at @crasshlive.bsky.social exploring Precarious Ageing, past, present & future. We kick off 9th Oct/2pm, hybrid and in-person, with @paulfdhiggs.bsky.social & @evemworth.bsky.social in conversation. Register here www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47719/

📣 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.bsky.social Apply by 1 October 2025 buff.ly/tQABBo4

🍂Michaelmas term starts this week! We’ve created a guide for new and returning University of Cambridge students, including online resources, top tips, skills training, tours, collections, and what’s new this term. https://loom.ly/EmsWxrs

Two days of tributes to @petermandler.bsky.social as he moves on from @camhistory.bsky.social to new vistas. We could scarcely cover all his interests, mentorship and provocations if we had two years

📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre. 🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK

An important piece taking stock of EDI @camhistory.bsky.social

Rewriting the narrative: the case for diversity and inclusion The Faculty of History is steadily building a more inclusive and representative academic environment. But, as staff acknowledge, the journey is a marathon, not a sprint. ⬇️⬇️

A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...