... The John Robert Seeley Lectures are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in Political Thought and its History.
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The 2026 Seeley Lectures will be delivered by Professor Caroline Humfress (University of St Andrews). The lecture series, ‘Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern’, will consist of: Lecture 1: Tuesday, May 19: ‘Lesser Commonwealths’? Politics and the Associative Phenomenon. Lecture 2: Thursday, May 21: Ancient Constitutionalism and Private Associations. Lecture 3: Tuesday, May 26: Constitutional Imaginaries: (Late) Ancient vs. (Early) Modern. Lecture 4: Thursday May 28: From Social Contract(ing) to Societal Constitutionalism? All Lectures will start at 5pm in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene’t Street, Cambridge.
📢 Join us for 2026 Seeley Lectures from Prof Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews)
“Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern”
📅 19, 21, 26, 28 May
⏲️ All 4 lectures start @ 5pm
🏢 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
🔎 Free, no booking needed
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📢 New @mihjournal.bsky.social article by historian Dr Peter Morgan (@homertoncollege.bsky.social) on the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui ⬇️
“Discipline, Programs, and Systems”: The Limits of Heterodoxy in the Thought of José Carlos Mariátegui, 1917–1930
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New Episode: “What makes one drug or another useful to politicians?” Prof. David Farber talks about crack cocaine and his new work on the late 20th c “war on drugs” in the United States - what it was, how it functioned, and whether it's proven politically durable. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
The four researchers specialising in Hungarian history and politics are 👇
Prof Nora Berend from @camhistory.bsky.social
@marietta1.bsky.social from Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity
@elviratamus.bsky.social from @camhistory.bsky.social
@barnabas-szabo.bsky.social from @camgeopolitics.bsky.social
Baltic Symposium: “1945 in the Baltic and its legacies”
Join us for a day of discussions about the fateful year 1945 in the Baltic as well as its afterlives in the (geo)politics of the region today
🗓️13 April, 9.00-18.45
🗺️ Corpus Christi College
🔗 bit.ly/BalticSympos...
Great to see the new combined book prize for a first book in women's history, from @womenshistnet.bsky.social and @whaireland.bsky.social.
Entries can be made for research-based books published in 2025, until 31 July 2026. Spread the word!
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Read more about the 'COLOMBO: Layered Histories in a Global South City' research project:
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Documents the research project exploring the long-term history of the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, continuing to progress in archives, collections and in the city itself.
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Don't forget to register by 12 April to attend Speech/less in the Early Modern World. Free event! All welcome!
🚨 CFP 🚨 The Cambridge Material Culture Workshop is excited to announce our Easter Term call for papers on the theme of ‘unworked’. We look very forward to hearing about your work!
A reminder that the deadline for submissions is in one week!
History at @cam.ac.uk secures third place ranking in the 2026 QS World University Subject Rankings 👏👏
More than 1900 institutions worldwide are reviewed ⬇️⬇️
It's great to see this article in The Conversation up now! Link in the first comment.
We are thrilled to share our Easter Term CFP - Read below for further details and feel free to get in touch wiuth any questions or if you would like a plain text version!
Photo of St Catharine's College in sunshine with text across the sky reading 'Free History taster day 10am-4pm 16 April. Apply online by 1 April'
Do you know an aspiring historian in Year 12 at a UK state school? Encourage them to join us in Cambridge for a free History taster day on 16 April hosted by our students, staff & Fellows. Find out more & apply online by 1 April at caths.cam.ac.uk/tast.... @camhistory.bsky.social
📸 Caroline Gonda
Dr Jean-Marc Hill has been awarded the 2025 Doctoral Prize for the best thesis in maritime history completed at a UK university. The annual prize is awarded by the British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH) in association with the publisher, Boydell & Brewer.
Dr Jean-Marc Hill wins 2025 Doctoral Prize for best thesis in maritime history, awarded by the British Commission for Maritime History & @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social 👏👏
Dr Hill recently completed his PhD in Oceanic & Maritime History @stcatharines.bsky.social
🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jean...
Samuel Pepys censored his links to slavery.
In a new study, historian Michael Edwards @camhistory.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social reveals how and why 👇
https://bit.ly/4tfFxbI
In a study published today, @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social historian Dr Michael Edwards shows that Pepys both erased and preserved details of his connections to slavery to protect his reputation and political career.
Edwards' study reveals how and why.
Read coverage in today's @theguardian.com ⬇️⬇️
Samuel Pepys had significant professional and social connections to transatlantic slavery in the years covered by his diary and afterwards, mediated by his involvement with two English slave-trading companies – the Royal African Company and the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa. He also owned and sold at least two enslaved people in London in the 1670s and 1680s. This article uses previously neglected manuscript evidence to reassess Pepys’s involvement in enslavement and his status as an enslaver. It emphasizes three themes: the relationship between Pepys’s official connections to the African companies and his private ownership of enslaved people; the development of his involvement in slavery within his extensive social and professional networks; and Pepys’s own agency in curating his official and personal archives to shape and limit our knowledge of his slave ownership. In doing so, it considers how the consciously expressed professional and ethical priorities of administrators and slave-owners like Pepys shaped the complex archival traces of slavery in England and erased the experiences and voices of enslaved people.
📣Out now on #firstview
Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689'
#Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Congratulations to all four Cambridge student journalism prizewinners - all studying History 👏 👏 👏
The Cambridge Gender & Sexuality History Workshop is now accepting papers for the Easter term. To participate, please send an abstract of 250 words, along with a brief biography (100 words) to gender-workshop@hist.cam.ac.uk by Sunday, 19 April 2026.
Deadline approaching for this excellent fully-funded international PhD studentship ⬇️⬇️
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🎧 Episode 1 of brilliant new podcast from @kingscollege.bsky.social ft. Marcus Böick, Assistant Prof in Modern German History & King's Fellow.
He talks to Gillian Tett about historic populism in Germany and what this tells us about the rise of populism across the world ⬇️
🔗 pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...
2026 Mossman Lecture by Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge. Title: The Human Being and Knowledge of Nature in the Indian Ocean Arena (hybrid). Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 5:30pm - 6:45pm. At McGill University, Montreal.
📢 Register for 2026 Mossman Lecture given by Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History @cam.ac.uk and Fellow @caiuscollege.bsky.social
🔎The Human Being and Knowledge of Nature in the Indian Ocean Arena
📅31 March
⏲️5:30-6:45pm (EDT)
🏢 @mcgill.ca & online
🔗 libraryrooms.mcgill.ca/event/3998357
"Archives of Care: Black Health Histories in Twentieth Century Britain" workshop supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch
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Applications for participation open: 1-day workshop for doctoral/ early career historians on history of Black health and healthcare in 20th-century Britain
📢 Doctoral and early career historians: submit your abstracts for the 1-day Cambridge-based workshop examining the history of Black health and healthcare in 20th-century Britain.
Submission deadline: 1 April
Workshop date: 29 May
More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...
⏰Don't miss our free Cambridge Festival event tonight at 5.30pm. @bonisones.bsky.social and Jackie Ashley will be in conversation with Anne Campbell (former Labour MP for Cambridge) and Baroness Gillian Shephard (former Conservative Minister)
#camfest @cambridgefestival.bsky.social
We're pleased to be supporting the “Speech/less in the Early Modern World” Workshop
23 - 24 April 2026 @camhistory.bsky.social
Registration free but places limited (register by 12 April 2026). Venue Emmanuel College Cambridge
See programme and registration:
pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...