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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We are thrilled to share more details about our forthcoming magazine! We are looking for written and visual submissions as well as several new members to join our dedicated team! See the attached posters below for more information! (DM us for plain text versions of the posters)

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Doing History in Public team is thrilled to announce our brand new Magazine, aptly titled Doing History in Public: The Magazine

Brown poster saying Coming Soon featuring a graphic image of Rapunzels Tower

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

In case you're after a bit of light Sunday reading, check out our newest post on the blog from Joseph Opp on The Declaration of Independence and the American Constitutional Conversation, 1776-1861 Read more using the link below 👇👇👇 doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=10009

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The Declaration of Independence and the American Constitutional Conversation, 1776-1861

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 — …

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In case yesterday's post wasn't enough, you can also check out last week's contribution to the blog! @YuetongLi_Doris writes about Friedrich Dahlmann: Germany’s Most Popular Historian before 1850 Learn more using the link below 👇👇👇👇 doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/05/22/f...

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Friedrich Dahlmann: Germany’s Most Popular Historian before1850

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…

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

2024 marked the ten-year anniversary of the first published post on the Doing History in Public blog, making this year the start of DHP’s second decade of life!

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Be sure to check out our final Historian Highlight of term! This week, João Moreira da Silva talks about his research on the Portuguese Empire and its colonial legacies. Read more on the blog using the link below 👇👇👇 doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/03/10/h...

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Historian Highlight – João Moreira da Silva

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 …

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This week, our editor in chief David Martin @davidmartin8293.bsky.social writes about the Andrean Postcolonial You can read all about it using the link below! doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=9418

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In case you missed it, we had two fabulous posts go live on the blog this week! On Monday, we had a new Historian Highlight featuring 2nd-year PhD Student @emmaolson5.bsky.social , who talked all things soundscapes, religious violence, and medieval history! Image

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In case you missed it, yesterday’s blog post was the last of our three collaborative posts with the Global History Lab and Elvira Tamus discussing ‘How Imperialism and Colonialism Affect Student Politics’ Read more on the blog: doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=9382

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This week, in our second collaborative post with the Global History Lab Elvira Tamus and her students discuss ‘Student Protests Around the World’! You can read more on the blog using the link below 👇 doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=9367

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This week kicks off a special series of blog posts on the Global History Lab, the first in three written by groups of international undergraduates, facilitated by Elvira Tamus. Students this week comment on ‘Echoes of communism: A cross-cultural reflection’

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Our first Historian Highlight of term is out now! PhD student Molly Groarke about her research on the British Empire in the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the Aclands family of Killerton. Read all about it on the blog using the link below! doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/27/m...

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Molly Groarke – Historian Highlight

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Sietske van der Veen @sbvanderveen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Thank you, @historyinpublic.bsky.social, for publishing (a shorter version of) my lecture for the symposium ‘Sounding the Spaces of Historical Experience: Remapping the Cinema of the Holocaust’ at @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social last year: doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i....

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We're kicking off the new term with a bang! Be sure to read this week's fabulous post from Sietske van der Veen 'Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City' Read more on the blog using the link below! doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...

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Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City

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, …

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

In case you missed the latest discoveries of a private bathhouse and occupants of a house in #Pompeii www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa

A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 20/01/2025

#OnThisDay in 1778 Captain Cook becomes the first European to land on #Hawaii. As revolutions swept across Europe, the Pacific world also witnessed dramatic changes 🔓 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 buff.ly/3WrY7iy

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Kings of the Pacific in an Age of Revolution

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Working with Doing History in Public was one of the highlights of my PhD - if you're looking for smart, fun public history writing from postgraduate students, there's really nothing like it.

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Welcome to the official BlueSky for the Cambridge Doing History in Public Blog - We are a postgraduate run blog attempting to bring accessible and engaging history to the public! You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org

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Doing History in Public

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