We are thrilled to share more details about our forthcoming magazine! We are looking for written and visual submissions as well as several new members to join our dedicated team! See the attached posters below for more information!
(DM us for plain text versions of the posters)
Our first issue, โLet Down Your Long Hairโ builds on DHPโs commitment to make History accessible to the wider public and highlight overlooked areas.
Watch this space for more information on submitting to the Magazine, or joining the team. We canโt wait to begin this next chapter with you all! โจ
Brown poster saying Coming Soon featuring a graphic image of Rapunzels Tower
The Doing History in Public team is thrilled to announce our brand new Magazine, aptly titled Doing History in Public: The Magazine
Up now on the blog!
Dr Stephanie Brown discusses bringing 'Courtroom to Classroom: Teaching with Old Bailey Online'
doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=10032
In case you're after a bit of light Sunday reading, check out our newest post on the blog from Joseph Opp on The Declaration of Independence and the American Constitutional Conversation, 1776-1861
Read more using the link below ๐๐๐
doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=10009
In case yesterday's post wasn't enough, you can also check out last week's contribution to the blog! @YuetongLi_Doris writes about Friedrich Dahlmann: Germanyโs Most Popular Historian before 1850
Learn more using the link below ๐๐๐๐
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/05/22/f...
In case you missed it, our editor-in-chief @davidmartin8293.bsky.social has a new post up on the blog on 'Oddments of Imperium: St. Markโs of Bangalore'
Read all about it using the link below:
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/05/29/o...
If you would like to contribute to the blog, please send your proposals of around 100 words and a short bio of about 50 words to doinghistoryinpublic@gmail.com. If you have any queries, feel free to drop a message to daim3@cam.ac.uk
โ we welcome proposals for new articles, both short- (~900 words) and long- (~2000 words) form, or interviews over the course of the next four months
Some keen observers among you may also notice that thereโs something else cooking on the website. For now, suffice it to say that we have changed our article submissions format to a
rolling timeline
In honour of this landmark, DHP has been given something of a facelift. We here at the blog are proud to welcome you to our fully renovated and updated home!
2024 marked the ten-year anniversary of the first published post on the Doing History in Public blog, making this year the start of DHPโs second decade of life!
It's Thursday, which means a new post on the blog! Today, editor-in-chief David Martin ( @davidmartin8293.bsky.social ) shares his new post 'He Stoops to Globalise, or How a Church brought a World together'
Access David's article using the link below ๐
doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=9436
Be sure to check out our final Historian Highlight of term! This week, Joรฃo Moreira da Silva talks about his research on the Portuguese Empire and its colonial legacies.
Read more on the blog using the link below ๐๐๐
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/03/10/h...
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This week, our editor in chief David Martin @davidmartin8293.bsky.social writes about the Andrean Postcolonial
You can read all about it using the link below!
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You can read Emma's interview on the blog here:
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/02/24/e...
In case you missed it, we had two fabulous posts go live on the blog this week!
On Monday, we had a new Historian Highlight featuring 2nd-year PhD Student @emmaolson5.bsky.social , who talked all things soundscapes, religious violence, and medieval history!
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This week, Andreas Nabil Younan documents โthe Golden Age of Oppositional Politics in 1970s Egyptโ
Read all about it on the blog using the link below ๐
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/02/20/l...
We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!
In case you missed it, yesterdayโs blog post was the last of our three collaborative posts with the Global History Lab and Elvira Tamus discussing โHow Imperialism and Colonialism Affect Student Politicsโ
Read more on the blog:
doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=9382
This week, in our second collaborative post with the Global History Lab Elvira Tamus and her students discuss โStudent Protests Around the Worldโ! You can read more on the blog using the link below ๐
doinghistoryinpublic.org?p=9367
You can read more on the blog using the link below ๐
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/30/e...
This week kicks off a special series of blog posts on the Global History Lab, the first in three written by groups of international undergraduates, facilitated by Elvira Tamus. Students this week comment on โEchoes of communism: A cross-cultural reflectionโ
Our first Historian Highlight of term is out now! PhD student Molly Groarke about her research on the British Empire in the nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the Aclands family of Killerton. Read all about it on the blog using the link below!
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/27/m...
Thank you, @historyinpublic.bsky.social, for publishing (a shorter version of) my lecture for the symposium โSounding the Spaces of Historical Experience: Remapping the Cinema of the Holocaustโ at @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social last year: doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i....
We're kicking off the new term with a bang! Be sure to read this week's fabulous post from Sietske van der Veen 'Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City'
Read more on the blog using the link below!
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...
In case you missed the latest discoveries of a private bathhouse and occupants of a house in #Pompeii
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#OnThisDay in 1778 Captain Cook becomes the first European to land on #Hawaii.
As revolutions swept across Europe, the Pacific world also witnessed dramatic changes
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