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Cambridge History Seminars and Workshops
A list consolidating all the History Faculty Seminars, Workshops, and Research Clusters at the Universty of Cambridge
@crasshlive.bsky.social
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@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@harryspillane.bsky.social
Early modern historian at the University of Cambridge | Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and Fellow of Darwin College | PhD on the Bishops' Bible of 1568 | General book lover 📚 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-harry-spillane
@zarakesterton.bsky.social
PhD student at Cambridge studying flowers in 18th century French fashion 🌸
@cvspragg.bsky.social
ECA-funded PhD student at Uni of Edinburgh exploring King James VI & I's cultivation of a distinctly 'imperial' 'British' European image through art 🏛️
@savannahpine.bsky.social
Fellowships Advisor at the University of Denver | PhD in Medieval History from University of Cambridge | Researches ritual brotherhood, masculinity, queer studies, and chivalry in Medieval Europe
@joelherman.bsky.social
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
@biblioraphic.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
@elisabethrolston.bsky.social
early career historian (rulership, power, and historical narratives in the later middle ages); learning advisor @ university of wollongong. AI sceptic. 📍Dharawal country, NSW
@annalujz.bsky.social
book history | digital humanities | early modern Postdoc on Continental European Books in Early Modern England project, Manchester. Also: parish/public libraries, book data, early Bodleian library, early modern provincial English book cultures.
@markallen23.bsky.social
PhD in history from Darwin College, Cambridge University. Studied the role of tolerance & intolerance of popular baroque Catholicism in early Stuart London on political crises and the outbreak of the English Civil War. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Publisher Éd. Codex & Éd. Plein Jour Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
@mdbarfield48.bsky.social
Early modern French thought 🎓 PhD @harvardgsas (2022) on 18th-c. moralistes 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺 in 🇺🇸 studying 🇫🇷📚 🎷🎹🎵 Jazz fanatic 📍Cam, UK ➡️ Cam, MA
@diplohistoryfish.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Purdue - early modern Spain, women and diplomacy, social network analysis, aristocratic women and political power – and probably something about equitable inheritance. https://caroline-fish.com/.
@ellenwerner.bsky.social
PhD researcher "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
@haijiaowang.bsky.social
First-year PhD student @WarwickHistory, working on women's beauty, emotion and relationships in early modern England | Obsessed with all beautiful things...🕊️
@emmakale.bsky.social
Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia.
@bhgreeley.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton. Working on early-modern Atlantic currencies. Writing a trade-press history of the dollar and a dissertation about the guinea. I used to be a journalist. I used to be a lot of things.
@drwillgreen.bsky.social
Academic and heritage professional • Currently working on a travelling players project with Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall in Stratford-upon-Avon • Early modern drama specialist • PhD from the Shakespeare Institute • FHEA • Views own, etc.
@lilliantaylor.bsky.social
History PhD student at William & Mary. Working on oceans, environmental history, and history of knowledge in the Atlantic World. She/her
@wendelhansen.bsky.social
Associate professor @ Tallinn University | review editor for "1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies" Economic history/material culture/alternative currencies
@emjlynajsh.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
@bibliowingate.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Information Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton & SHARP News. W&M '18, ULondon '19, MLS @IU '21
@emilymayvine.bsky.social
Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
@lhaasis.bsky.social
Senior Researcher | German Maritime Museum Leibniz Institute for Maritime History Former Research Coordinator | Prize Papers Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
@mtoiv.bsky.social
Research fellow at FU Berlin｜global/colonial history & 19thC SE Asia｜🏬 cities and publics｜🌲 forests and forestry｜PhD from EUI｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films
@robertsmartino.bsky.social
Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demonology • Wife of My Favourite Person
@beckhistorian.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 they/them 🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester ♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist 🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
@bigandylock.bsky.social
Great War, History, & Rugby. PhD @ University of Suffolk, BEF Infantry tactical development 1916-1917. Guiding battlefields, Germany and London. Karaoke hound.
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales. Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
@jenniferashby.bsky.social
Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Outgoing PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies
@sarahds.bsky.social
Researcher, Imperial College London • Historian #HistMed • PhD in Military Medicine • Blast Injury • Chronic Pain • Applied History • Cats, Podcasts & Spooky Things. And Pastry.
@sianhibbert.bsky.social
(Almost finished) History PhD at Uni of York - early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
@zoejackson.bsky.social
Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
@thejanine.bsky.social
Owned by sassy ferrets, vegan, professional goth and cemetery dweller. Pronouns she/her. Undertaking a p/t professional doctorate in heritage. VERY VERY TIRED
@paodonnell.bsky.social
History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
@sandrasg.bsky.social
Late Medieval-Early Modern historian. Women in war and their experiences with/in the spanish armies in the 16th century. Postdoc University of Murcia.
@mauricejcasey.com
Historian of intimacy and revolution in interwar Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon). Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats: archiverats.substack.com
@wadehistory.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Leiden | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
@drangelabuckley.bsky.social
Crime historian and author. Victorian crime, police detectives and history of forensic science. New book: The Bermondsey Murder. Rep Past Preservers. Also languages, literature, genealogy and travel. CWA Chapter convenor http://drangelabuckley.substack.com
@cmcrif.bsky.social
historian (Ph.D.) of Christianity, women, kinship, food, & the body in the Spanish Atlantic ~ working in major fellowships baking enthusiast | human of Theodore | BR tap water zealot | avid sportsball watcher | Geaux Tigers, On Wisconsin | she/hers
@psheridanhistory.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia studying railroads and economic development in Texas and Louisiana. Cartographer as a hobby. Opinions are my own. 🏳️🌈 🗃
@theotherrbg.bsky.social
📖author, Dear Miss Perkins (Kensington, Jan. 2025) 🐻Brown postdoc🤎 ✍🏼writing a book on the American Revolution in popular culture, 1976-2026 www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
@vlvde.bsky.social
PhD student @Unistra & @EHESS | Early modern history | researching gender: esp. science and masculinities in 18c. France | IEG Mainz Fellow 2023 | Music enthusiast
@rmonsey.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Boston University 🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory 1680s-1820s | Britain
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social
Burnley girl in 🇩🇰, PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. 'Stealthily whimsical'. I want to live on a boat again. She/her. *All Roads Lead to Rome* out May 2025 with Aurum Press.
@rjdashwood.bsky.social
Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
@kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher NT & OU | PhD global/East Asian material culture @ Stuart Ham House | MPhil, Cambridge - tobacco, Indigenous/African knowledge/labour in English Atlantic pre-TAST | BA Early America & British social history | KerryApps.com
@kerrymlove.bsky.social
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832 Interested in citizenship and radicalism Humanities Teacher Blocking accounts with no name or info, nothing personal