By Dr. Stephanie Brown (Bluesky: Old Bailey Online is a vast and searchable digital collection of nearly 200,000 trial accounts from London’s central criminal court from 1674 to 1913.1 A pioneer of…

By Joseph Opp Every year, more than one million visitors queue for over an hour to enter the rotunda at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Under its imposing dome and two brilliant murals — …

By Yuetong Li (Twitter/X: @yuetongli_doris) Laeta viro gravitas et mentis amabile pondus. (A happy man has a gravity and a lovely weight of mind.)  —— Anton Springer 1 Friedrich Christoph Dahl…

By David Martin (Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social Substack: @davidmartin8293 A cathedral, the seat of a bishop, is normally an august building. From the gargoyle-studded Notre Dame de Paris to…

On Raphael's 'The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila'

Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While textiles degra...

India and Visions of World Order is an international conference that will take place at the University of Cambridge.

The chairs, incense, and even the surrounding trees at a church’s outdoor Easter services reflect the cosmopolitan past of this religious institution.

The chairs, incense, and even the surrounding trees at a church’s outdoor Easter services reflect the cosmopolitan past of this religious institution.

David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk / Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social) Nestled in the heart of the seventeenth-century Fort St. George, and barely visible through its verdure and petrous neighbours…

Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. In this instalment, Chris Campbell sat down with second-year …

By Andreas Nabil Younan (any21@cam.ac.uk) How does one write the political history of an authoritarian regime, where access tostate documents is restricted for national security reasons and censors…

By Sietske van der Veen ( Twitter/X: @SBvanderVeen; Bluesky: @sbvanderveen.bsky.social) The documentary Occupied City (De bezette stad,2023) contrasts everyday life in Amsterdam’s cityscape today, …

By Kit Treadwell (ct578@cam.ac.uk)  Dating from the middle of the twelfth century to the middle of the thirteenth, seven Welsh poems bear the title element dadolwch (appeasement, rec…