Are you a Cambridge UTO or CTO working in the arts, humanities, and social sciences? Join our thriving community for a term and have the opportunity to advance a major research project in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment ⏳ Apply by 12pm on 19 Jan 2026 https://bit.ly/48ggnjZ

The symposium is already shaping up to be a fantastic day of interdisciplinary research - You definitely won't want to miss it!

How history is done at Cambridge > Anniversary-year lectures now published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social, reflecting on the place of ‘Cambridge history’ in the wider discipline and profession. Read & watch the lectures from Prof Ludmilla Jordanova, Prof Sir David Cannadine & Prof Michael Bentley ⬇️

Now available: @camhistory.bsky.social anniversary lectures in original video and revised texts @historicaljnl.bsky.social, both found at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/how-his.... Not just about Cambridge but about the development of History: as a profession, a degree subject, a literature.

🚨 CfP 🚨 We are delighted to announce our Lent term call for papers, deadline 13 January 2026! This term we are accepting work on any theme - we look very forward to receiving your abstracts!

We were so pleased to host the students of 'The European Union, A People’s History' (a new Special Subject in the Cambridge History tripos) a few weeks ago. We hope that access to archives will enrich your understanding of this fascinating topic! Read more in the thread below...

Former EU lead for foreign policy speaks to History students @chuarchives.bsky.social Baroness Catherine Ashton, the first EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy, spoke to final-year students about her experiences representing the EU in high-level diplomatic negotiations... ⬇️⬇️

We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

If you're a university-based historian needing advice and inspiration on how to tackle that tricky second book project, this event is for you www.history-uk.ac.uk/2025/12/08/h...

Leo XIV is the 1st Augustinian Pope, but did you know that his order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles? @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social from @camhistory.bsky.social @queens.cam.ac.uk reveals the forgotten lives of these wild medieval saints 👇 https://bit.ly/4rP25Qj #skystorians 🗃️

We're looking for a Professor of Public Policy to join our senior leadership team. They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership. Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...

Medieval historian Dr Krisztina Ilko (@queens.cam.ac.uk) challenges major assumptions about the medieval Catholic Church and early Renaissance. Forgotten medieval miracles are brought to light in her new book 'The Sons of St Augustine', published today by Oxford University Press ⬇️⬇️

Professor Lucy Delap has begun her History Faculty Chairship with a simple conviction. Effective leadership is grounded in the quiet, behind-the-scenes work that builds connection and shapes consensus. Read the full interview to discover how @lucydelap.bsky.social is leading through connection...⬇️

Important reading from our former convenor!

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships

From California to Cambridge When architecture student @emvchung.bsky.social left the US for a Master’s in History, she expected a brief detour before returning. Instead, the move unlocked a new academic direction, life-changing funding and a passion for uncovering the hidden stories of cities...⬇️

And the deadline for our next round of By-Fellowship applications is 31st December. We offer 3 Archives By-Fellowships each year for researchers engaged in academic projects at a post-doctoral level or above. ➡️ Find out more and apply, click here: buff.ly/HbNqCbd

#cfp for the Cambridge Medieval History Graduate Workshop in Lent term 2026! Abstracts due the 13th of January and open to all current Master's and PhD students.

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 are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Eleanor Gaylard’s research challenges conventional histories, revealing how the very idea of Argentine Blackness has been continually reinvented. As of 2022, Black Argentines accounted for only 0.7% of the country’s population. Historical records reveal a very different past. Read the full story ⬇️

Still time to register! Dr Kate Peters will give the 2nd Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College TODAY 🔎 "Activist women & the challenge to patriarchy in the English revolution, 1640-60" ⏲️ Tues 2 Dec, 5 – 6.30pm 🏢 Vivien Stewart Room, Murray Edwards College Register for free tickets ⬇️

📢 Prof Renaud Morieux will give the 2026 Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social "Dislocated Families: Women, War & Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions" 📅 12 Jan 2026 ⏲️ 5:30-7pm 🏢 Institut français, London Register below ⬇️

🐦‍⬛ Academic freedom, context and positionality This seminar by the Academic Freedoms Network will consider the context and positionality of the scholar as key to the exercise of academic freedom 3 December at 5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49130/

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Looking forward to this next week Weds @camhistory.bsky.social at the Centre for South Asian Studies. Friends in Cambridge, will be great to meet!

Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

One week to go until: Historica Dr Alexander Tsikhilov & Nikita Balabanov present exciting developments of historica.org, an AI-based tool to view historical maps and records throughout time. Make sure not to miss it! 🗓️ Tue 2nd Dec 17:30-19:00 🗺️ Ramsden Room, St Cat's ✒️ Reg & info: bit.ly/4hTedLH

A reminder that our Salon symposium is tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday 26 November! Our theme is ‘The Senses’ and we’re taking an embodied, medical history, musical, and craft-based approach to the long eighteenth century.

The 2025 Parnell Lecture in Irish Studies takes place today at 5:15pm, Cripps Court Auditorium, @magdalenecollege.bsky.social. Professor Colin Barr will be speaking on 'The Irish Pope: Paul Cullen, 1803-1878', with a wine reception to follow.

ICYMI here's the recording of my chat last week about law, politics and autocracy in America with Jim Zirin, author and talk-show host. Some great questions from the audience and a persistent effort from yours truly to find some hope in the current moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3o...

We loved hosting our annual visit for students studying the Modern British History MPhil here in Cambridge. In our 2 hour session, we worked with students to explore what it means to look after collections, from when they enter our sorting room to going out to researchers in our reading room!

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

I am truly honoured to share that my book “Hegel and Italian Political Thought” has been selected as one of the finalists for the Giuseppe Galasso Prize. The jury recognised the “excellent scientific quality and the valuable contribution to the international historiographical debate.”

Calling Year 12 students! Nominations open for @corpuscambridge.bsky.social’s outreach scheme designed to stretch, challenge and sharpen oracy & problem solving skills. The programme introduces students to new & exciting super-curricular resources & themes through a sustained 6-month programme...⬇️

On behalf of the family, can I extend our thanks to the Faculty, Trustees and Board of @camhistory.bsky.social @lucydelap.bsky.social at the announcement of the Permanent " Childers Chair " of Irish History. My grandfather was incredibly proud to be an alumnus www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

We are honoured and delighted to be recipients of the endowed Childers Professorship in Irish History. The Professorship will be known as the Childers Chair in honour of Robert Erskine Childers and Erskine Hamilton Childers, both Cambridge alumni and the latter the fourth President of Ireland... ⬇️

🎙 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