Petition to start having a 'hindrances' section in books and PhD theses - an anti-acknowledgements where we detail all the things that have hindered progress Eg, the year-long building renovation opposite my flat that has introduced me to sixty different types of drilling noise from 8am each day

Delighted to have an article in this month's @historytoday.com The article explores the 1951 Hans Crescent Strike, the post-war history of colonial students in the UK, and the British Council's attempt to use them for imperial soft power. www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

The Hans Crescent Strike: The Students at the Hotel

Eager to create goodwill towards Britain in its former colonies, the postwar government encouraged students from across the Empire to study in London. Housing them was a problem, as events in the summ...

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Final symposium TODAY: Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century ⬇️⬇️ @mollygroarke.bsky.social @sallyholloway.bsky.social @brendantam.bsky.social

Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge@18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our final symposium of the year takes place on Tuesday 9 June! We are looking forward to three postgraduate presentations and a keynote from @sallyholloway.bsky.social on the theme of ‘Associations’.

Pleased to see my blog post published by Cambridge's Legacies of Enslavement Network - it reflects on researching imperial legacies at country houses and how histories of antislavery present both a challenge and opportunity for the heritage sector: www.legaciesofenslavement.cam.ac.uk/news/antisla...

In this The Historical Journal essay exploring imperial family biographies, Molly Groarke reviews Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948 by Eva-Marie Kröller! Read the full essay here: https://bit.ly/42rBnlr University of Cambridge #Biography #BritishEmpire

Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950 | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950

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Delighted to contribute to this fantastic series on AI, British Studies and the wider humanities with @thenacbs.bsky.social! www.nacbs.org/post/back-to...

Back to Basics? Historical Methods and the Rise of AI

"For if AI threatens to strip historical research and writing back to its most basic form, perhaps that’s a challenge we should meet head on."

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1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️ A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism. 🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...

📣Out now on #firstview! Molly Groarke (@mollygroarke.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950' #Empire #Family #Personal #Review 📜🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very happy to announce my article is now out with the @historicaljnl.bsky.social! It reviews the current literature on family networks in the British Empire and biographical approaches to writing imperial history www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

(Had they asked, I would gladly have sent them this...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations @chriscampbell1.bsky.social! Really happy to see this article published - essential reading!

Chris Campbell@chriscampbell1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Archival find: Here's Churchill exploiting his diplomatic connections to maintain his usual supply of whisky, despite French import quotas.

🕊️ #FaithFreedomFriendship Explore the story of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther & Sir Thomas Dyke Acland – a friendship that shaped reform, education & faith 📍 Killerton Chapel #NationalTrust 📅 Sept 12–Nov 2 '25 Supported by PhD student @mollygroarke.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/devon/...

"A Global Mission of Faith and Freedom", a new exhibition opens tomorrow at Killerton House, Devon, including some findings from my PhD research. Free entry this weekend as part of Heritage Open Days! @researchnt.bsky.social Find out more here: www.instagram.com/reel/DOLKZAk...

What did nineteenth-century British public school students think about Islam and the British Empire? Find out in my blog post, written as part of my doctoral internship with the excellent Schools of Empire research project: www.schoolsofempireproject.org/islam-and-em...

Delighted to share details about registration for a conference I'm co-organising on women's work in WWII. Papers will explore Bletchley Park, the Women's Land Army, wartime medicine, the British Council and more! Deadline 31st July!

A wonderful few days last week at the Gender and Diplomacy Conference in Sweden, where I presented my research on the British Council's gendering of diplomatic accreditation. Missing the fika already! ☕🍰

Looking forward to presenting my PhD research at the 'Britain, Conflict, and the Sea' conference this September - book tickets below!

David Morgan-Owen@dmorganowen.bsky.social · last yr.

Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

The first of our MPhil Dissertation Workshops is today - come along to hear some of the fascinating research being done on the Modern British History MPhil Programme! 📍 Arthur Quiller Couch Room, St John's 🕔 5pm - 7pm

Reminder: our first session is TODAY! ft. our very own @mollygroarke.bsky.social 📍 Arthur Quiller Couch Room, St John's 🕔 5pm - 6.30pm

A bit late posting this, but last week I had my first book review published - Rodrigo Christofoletti's edited volume, Soft Power and Heritage www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Soft power and heritage

Published in International Journal of Cultural Policy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS Our Easter Term Call for Papers is now out! Open to all PG students and ECRs working in Modern British History - deadline 18th April.

CALL FOR PAPERS! I'm co-organising a conference in September on women's work in the Second World War, with a graduate research forum in the afternoon for PGRs to present their work. Please share with any postgrads who might be interested! More details here ⬇️ royalhistsoc.org/calendar/cod...

We've just released our programme at the Cambridge Modern British History Workshop, come along to hear some great papers from graduate students this term!

Cambridge Modern British History Workshop@cammbhw.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 TERM CARD! We're delighted to release our programme for Lent Term - join us either in-person at St John's or online!

Just six days left to submit to our Lent Term Call for Papers - deadline 10th January!

Cambridge Modern British History Workshop@cammbhw.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our Lent Term programme. The deadline is 10th January 2025. Please share widely with anyone who might be interested. We look forward to reading your abstracts!

If you're a postgrad or ECR studying any aspect of Modern British History, consider submitting an abstract to present at our workshop next term!

Cambridge Modern British History Workshop@cammbhw.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our Lent Term programme. The deadline is 10th January 2025. Please share widely with anyone who might be interested. We look forward to reading your abstracts!

Join us on Wednesday for our final session of term and two excellent papers! There may or may not be Christmas-themed refreshments... 👀 📍 Boys Smith Room, St John's College 🕔 5pm - 6.30pm

Join us tomorrow, 20th November, for our second session of term - we'll have two papers on British fascism and linguistic identities in colonial India. Refreshments provided! 🕔 5pm - 6.30pm 📍 Boys Smith Room, St John's College

Very happy to see my new article published, 'Constructing the Antislavery Hero'. Thanks to all who helped and advised along the way!

Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently published online! @mollygroarke.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social) investigates heroic anti-slavery portrayals of the Haitian general & revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) in abolitionist texts in Britain between 1803 and 1863 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m