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Early Modern Quarantine and Present Social Distancing
12/08/2025

Early Modern Quarantine and Present Social Distancing



By Marina Inì () Originally published 5 May, 2020 The past few months have been unexpected and distressing for everyone. As an Italian citizen originally from Lombardia, the centre of th…

By Marina Iní () Originally published 12 November, 2019. During part of the last academic year, I travelled to several a...
12/08/2025

By Marina Iní () Originally published 12 November, 2019. During part of the last academic year, I travelled to several archives and libraries collection in the Italian peninsula for my PhD fieldwork. It has been an extremely rewarding experience on the research side, but it was also thought-provoking. I saw with my own eyes the disheartening situation of different Archivi di Stato (Italian National Archives, usually one per provincial capital), Archivi Storici Comunali (City Archives) and other public archival collections and libraries....

By Marina Iní () Originally published 12 November, 2019. During part of the last academic year, I travelled to several archives and libraries collection in the Italian peninsula for my P…

13. A fumigated letter from the Lazzaretto in Verona
12/08/2025

13. A fumigated letter from the Lazzaretto in Verona



By Marina Inì () Originally published 13 December, 2018 as part of the 2018 Advent Calendar. During my research trip in Verona, I came across a striking document among the letters from t…

By Dr. Stephanie Brown (Bluesky: Old Bailey Online is a vast and searchable digital collection of nearly 200,000 trial a...
19/06/2025

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 digital humanities, Old Bailey Online also holds remarkable pedagogical value. In my teaching, I have found it to be an unparalleled resource for introducing students to the complexities of crime, justice, and society....

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 Molly Groarke () On 19th April 1944, Eric Williams (1911-1981) delivered a lecture at Trinidad Public Library on ‘The...
12/06/2025

By Molly Groarke () On 19th April 1944, Eric Williams (1911-1981) delivered a lecture at Trinidad Public Library on ‘The British West Indies in World History’. Williams later recalled in his memoir how the audience overflowed the space of the library. He created typed copies of the lecture to sell cheaply so his paper could reach as many Trinidadians as possible....

By Molly Groarke () On 19th April 1944, Eric Williams (1911-1981) delivered a lecture at Trinidad Public Library on ‘The British West Indies in World History’. Williams later reca…

By Joseph Opp Every year, more than one million visitors queue for over an hour to enter the rotunda at the National Arc...
05/06/2025

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 — flanked by columns, flags, and uniformed security — are the ‘Charters of Freedom’: The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights....

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 David Martin (Bluesky: .bsky.social Substack: A cathedral, the seat of a bishop, is normally an august building. Fro...
29/05/2025

By David Martin (Bluesky: .bsky.social Substack: A cathedral, the seat of a bishop, is normally an august building. From the gargoyle-studded Notre Dame de Paris to the bird-woman-spotted St. Paul’s of London, monuments that bear this name are meant to represent an ancient genealogy of European Christendom. But what happens when said Christendom arrives on foreign shores with neither money nor hellfire to coax their construction?...

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

By Yuetong Li (Twitter/X: ) Laeta viro gravitas et mentis amabile pondus. (A happy man has a gravity and a lovely weight...
22/05/2025

By Yuetong Li (Twitter/X: ) Laeta viro gravitas et mentis amabile pondus. (A happy man has a gravity and a lovely weight of mind.) —— Anton Springer 1 Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785–1860) was a staunch advocate of constitutional monarchy. During the turbulent years surrounding the Frankfurt Parliament, few figures maintained such unwavering commitment to a unified Germany under hereditary, constitutional rule....

By Yuetong Li (Twitter/X: ) 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 Stefanie Parish This year will mark ninety years since the first Nisei Week Queen was crowned. Similar to the infamou...
15/05/2025

By Stefanie Parish This year will mark ninety years since the first Nisei Week Queen was crowned. Similar to the infamous Miss America contest, Japanese American beauty contests had their humble beginnings in the early 20th century. The first “Nisei Week Queen” was crowned in 1935. Organizers hoped that hosting a contest of this sort would bring more business to the Little Tokyo shops that struggled during the Great Depression....

By Stefanie Parish This year will mark ninety years since the first Nisei Week Queen was crowned. Similar to the infamous Miss America contest, Japanese American beauty contests had their humble be…

In the first Historian Highlight of Easter Term, Chris Campbell sat down with History PhD student Elvira Tamus to discus...
12/05/2025

In the first Historian Highlight of Easter Term, Chris Campbell sat down with History PhD student Elvira Tamus to discuss her research, the New Diplomatic History, and the Global History Lab. Elvira, let’s start by talking about your current research I’m analysing the actors of sixteenth-century diplomacy, mainly looking at people who served the King of France and the King of Hungary at that time and pursued anti-Habsburg interests....

In the first Historian Highlight of Easter Term, Chris Campbell sat down with History PhD student Elvira Tamus to discuss her research, the New Diplomatic History, and the Global History Lab. Elvir…

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03/05/2025

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David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk / Bluesky: .bsky.social) Nestled in the heart of the seventeenth-century Fort St. George, ...
13/03/2025

David Martin ([email protected] / Bluesky: .bsky.social) Nestled in the heart of the seventeenth-century Fort St. George, and barely visible through its verdure and petrous neighbours, St. Mary’s Church is an icon of the city of Chennai in Southern India. With a subtitle as glamorous as ‘the oldest Anglican establishment East of Suez’, one would expect a magnificent megalith of a building, rivalling London’s Westminster Abbey (to which it is often compared)....

David Martin ([email protected] / Bluesky: .bsky.social) Nestled in the heart of the seventeenth-century Fort St. George, and barely visible through its verdure and petrous neighbours…

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