Five things that I’ve learned writing my first trade history book
This blog post was written by IHR Fellow Edward Armston-Sheret. I’ve recently published my first trade history book, The Grip of the Ice: Scott, Shackleton and Survival on the Frozen Frontier. The book tells the story of the British National Antarctic Expedition –...
The Cambridge Prehistory of Partitions: Learning through a Cambridge Walk and Podcast
Cambridge is a city of quiet quadrangles and soft light, designed for the unhurried pursuit of knowledge, polite debates over High Table, the preservation of tradition, and the education of the country’s youthful elites. Yet between the cobblestones of Trinity Street...
London’s Surprising Medieval Ban on Tennis Balls
This blog has been written by Eliot Benbow During Wimbledon season one discovery from our AHRC/DFG funded project London’s medieval customs accounts seems particularly intriguing. We have been struck by the sheer variety of goods and commodities that were imported and...
All the World’s a Stage: Performativity in the Life History Interview
This blog post was written by IHR Fellow Nilakshi Das. Life history interviews are rarely simple acts of narrating one’s life story. They unfold as a dynamic, relational interaction in which the interviewer and interviewee jointly shape how a life story is told and...