Check out the poster and details of the upcoming 2026 CIRN-CRASSH Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship Colloquium, “The Waste Question: Landscapes of Toxicity and Resistance in Southern Italy", organised by Dr Alice Parrinello! 10 June, 9:15am–6:15pm www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50911/

Do you have questions about postgraduate study at Cambridge? 🙋 Our postgraduate international Q&A webinar series explores the ins and outs of applying for a postgraduate degree at Cambridge, with dedicated time to answer your burning questions. Register today: https://bit.ly/439Honp

📜 Thursday 11 June · 2–3pm BST 📜 #LuanaReis (@princeton.edu) presents: "Lélia Gonzalez, Beatriz Nascimento, and the Poetics of Kilombo." Join us on #MSTeams: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #Kilombo #Quilombo #LéliaGonzalez #BeatrizNascimento #Amefricanidade #CHoM #CamMarronage #Black

Join Visiting Fellow Benjamin Hoffmann (Ohio State University) and Patrick Bray (UCL) for an in-conversation event on Hoffmann's latest novel 'The Bone War: Towards a learned fiction'. 📕 🦴 9 June 5 - 6.30pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/3Q0KM0E

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.

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

On this day in 1802. Philomé Obin (Haitian, 1891 - 1986). Arrestation de Toussaint Louverture (1958, oil on canvas board).

TODAY, Thurs 4 June · 2–3pm BST #CHoM welcomes Nigel Browne-Davies (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate, @queens.cam.ac.uk, @cam.ac.uk): "From Maroon to Creole: Loyalism, Marronage & Creolization." MS Teams (#LinkInBio) #CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons #BlackLoyalists #BlackHistory #Black

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026 Join us for Digging for Hope, a book presentation & panel with Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, on feminist ethnography, women-led search collectives in Mexico, care and collective memory. 📆 Thu 11 June, 12:30pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Open to all!

🔗 More info here: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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⬇️

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 ⬇️

📣 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

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.

📜Thu 21 May · 2–3pm BST📜 Graham Nickerson, UNB (@discoverunb.bsky.social) on: "To be Made Majesties of..." — Black Loyalist communities in #NovaScotia & #NewBrunswick as sites of marronage. Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Marronage #BlackLoyalist #BlackCanada #Canada

#BlackBritishHistory Paul Robeson was presented by the British Soviet Society at Birmingham Town Hall on 21 May 1949, 77 years to the day. Ref: LP 22.41 #LibraryofBham #BlackBritHist

Shah Cheragh Shrine and Mosque  Complex in Shiraz, Iran. The complex is known especially for its fabulous interior of mirror  mosaics, Shah Cheragh shrine is one of the most prominent sites of pilgrimage in Iran....

Conference on 'Filth and health': hygiene &sanitation in the Middle Ages Friday, 26 Jun 2026, 1100-1830, Great Hall, St Bartholomew the Great, EC1A 7BE Fundraising campaign for new loos & in memory of Prof Peter Fergusson, a great architectural historian greatstbarts.churchsuite.com/events/mytyw...

The second session in the #HAP26 Summer Season is 'Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive project' with Rachel Matthews (1pm, Weds 24 June, online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving... Booking now and jointly hosted by partners The National Archives @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org 2/2

On this day in 1917, a mob of thousands of white people brutally lynched a Black man named Ell Persons in Memphis, Tennessee.

📣 Come to our Afro-Asian Connections evening! This networking event aims to promote academic collaboration between scholars from across the university who are studying the diverse array of engagements between Africa and Asia 15 June at 5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/3RdXedX

Pennsylvania law required slaveholders to free their chattel after six months, so the country’s founding father tried to get cute and send his slaves south every six months to reset the clock. Martha Washington’s chief attendant said nope.

Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as a lily white republic that rigorously excluded Black people. Join us next week - online or in person - for a frank discussion of race and racism at the founding of The United States. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

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

Join the Catalysts for Decolonisation Research Lab for their upcoming events The annual lecture on 1 June will be given by Julian Go (Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago) Find out more and register at https://bit.ly/4tKDHPJ

📜Thu 21 May · 2–3pmBST📜 @daroldcuba.bsky.social (Cam.ac.uk), #HistoryPhD candidate, @stjohnscollege.bsky.social: " #HarvestAsMarronage: Shankleville's #TexasPurpleHullPea Festival & the #MaroonLegacies of #FreedomColonies." Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Marronage

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

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

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!

Some news!

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.

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!

📣 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

Dearest Maroons, We are thrilled to share #CHoM's Easter 2026 Term Card! Join us every Thursday from 2-3pm BST on #MSTeams to explore the #HistoriesOfMarronage at @cam.ac.uk's @camhistory.bsky.social . See you on Thursday! #Maroon #Maroons #Marronage #History #Cambridge

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

📜 Join us Thu 14 May · 2–3pm BST · #MSTeams Prof. #NemataBlyden (#UVA), Armstead L. Robinson Prof. of 19th-C African American History, presents: "'#BackToAfrica' as #Marronage: A Global Black Family in Liberia." All welcome: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3825331... #CHoM #Maroon #Maroons #Cambridge

Save the date for the Cambridge American History Workshop Conference Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War. 📅 22 May ⏲️ 9am-5pm 🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge Free, open to all 🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...

Sending congrats to my brilliant colleagues on the new Oxford Illustrated History of the United States for their *starred review* in Library Journal, cannot wait for the book to hit the shelves next month

happy birthday to me, and my birthday twin John Brown

“These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!” — John Brown

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

Happy John Brown Day!

In 1841 Mary Richardson married John Jones of North Carolina. They carried free papers when they settled in Chicago & Mr. Jones established a successful tailoring business. Active in abolitionist politics & voting rights campaigns, they hosted & dressed John Brown & crew en route to Harper’s Ferry.

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, May 7, 2-3pm (BST) for #CHoM: Dr. Johnhenry "Hank" Gonzalez, @camworldhistory.bsky.social will present "Fanchette and Gautiche: Two Cloaked Microhistories of Black Female Power During the Haitian Revolution." MSTeams: bit.ly/4et0s6O #CamMarronage #Marronage #Maroons

In celebration of the recent anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution (25th of April), Cambridge Centre member @pramospinto.bsky.social will be discussing 'Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution'. Drinks will be provided after the talk. 11 May 2026, 5pm, Trinity Hall, Bridgetower Room.

Black women in the UK are almost three times more likely to die in, or just after, pregnancy than white women. These are not due to genetic differences. Societal stressors affect the body’s ability to function healthily during pregnancy. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ty0QWl

*Still time to register* "Our Daily Bread: The Making of Sacral Economies in Western Eurasia" International Workshop (30 April-2 May) @kingscollege.bsky.social 🔎 Explore the formation and transformation of post-Roman economies across Western Eurasia and the Mediterranean ⬇️⬇️

In our latest blog post, Lotte Hughes and Katy Newell-Jones, explore some common myths about FGM/C and highlight how community-led education and engagement can drive lasting change. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/wYVe7xI