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1. Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the 'Deep Past' in the 19th-Century Imagination
Why was the young Darwin's fascination with geology so important for his later work? And why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? A podcast with...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Fri 5 Jun 2009
1 John Caius: History as Argument
In his first lecture, Professor Grafton analyses the reading practices of John Caius (1510-1573) and highlights Caius's adoption of the annal tradition and of renewing documents.
Collection: Sandars Lectures 2016
Institution: Academic Division
Created: Fri 29 Jan 2016
2007, An oral history of gendered analyses in archaeology.
Four of most eminent scholars in archaeology, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Henrietta Moore, Professor Meg Conkey from University...
Collection: Personal-Histories Project
Institution: Department of Archaeology
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
2008, Personal Histories of the Theoretical Archaeology Group
An oral history of TAG through 31 years is presented by the two original founders of TAG, Professor Colin Renfrew, Cambridge, and Professor Andrew Fleming, University of Wales,...
Collection: Personal-Histories Project
Institution: Department of Archaeology
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
2 Matthew Parker: History as Archive
In his second lecture, Professor Grafton analyses what Matthew Parker (1504-1575) might have thought he was doing while he was in the process of compiling what is now known as the...
Collection: Sandars Lectures 2016
Institution: Academic Division
Created: Fri 29 Jan 2016
30 Why are we here?
Various theories about how history works - whether there are laws, or we are governed by chance; revolution and evolution of human history.
Collection: How the World Works: Letters to Lily
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 10 Jan 2013
3 Adam Winthrop: History as Resource
In his third lecture, Professor Grafton studies the layered reading practices of Adam Winthrop and the many generations of the Winthrop family from England to America.
Collection: Sandars Lectures 2016
Institution: Academic Division
Created: Fri 29 Jan 2016
Accidents: Cambridge Psychology 1919-1945
Accidents
Cambridge Psychology 1919-1945
Collection: History of the Department of Psychology
Institution: Department of Psychology
Created: Wed 6 Nov 2019
Advice for prospective History students
Junior Research Fellow at King's Hanna Weibye talks about how prospective undergraduates can prepare for studying History at King's and Cambridge.
Collection: King's College multimedia
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 10 Mar 2014
A History of Cosmologies and their Religious Contexts
Research Seminar given by Dr Simon Mitton
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Fri 29 Jun 2012
Akanksha Mehta: Visual Narratives of `Fierce`Goddesses and `Brave` Women
Akanksha Mehta (SOAS): Visual Narratives of `Fierce`Goddesses and `Brave` Women
Collection: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 21 May 2013
Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss changing film technologies
Filmed in Cambridge in 2010 by Xu Bei, Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss the changing film technologies they have used in their projects.
Collection: Reflections on Cambridge
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 21 Aug 2012
A Micro-historical Approach to Global China: the daily life of Europeans in Beijing in the long 18th century
Lecture in the series "Global China: New Approaches" given by Prof. Eugenio Menegon, Boston University, on Thursday 11th June, 2015 at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern...
Collection: AMES Website Videos
Institution: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2015
An American Nightmare: What will a Contested Election Mean for the World?
The upcoming US presidential election will take place in the context of a raging pandemic and unprecedented domestic polarization in which allegations of voter fraud, voter...
Collection: Centre for Geopolitics
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Fri 9 Oct 2020
Ancestor Halls of Cambridge
A film made in summer 2010 of Alan Macfarlane, filmed by Xu Bei, talking about well-known figures in Cambridge.
Collection: Reflections on Cambridge
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 27 Mar 2018
Ancestor Objects
Alan Macfarlane describes some of the objects which he donated to the Department of Social Anthropology in 2010, including objects belonging to Edmund Leach, Meyer Fortes, Marilyn...
Collection: Reflections on Cambridge
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 7 Aug 2012
Andrew Morgan
An Interview of the teacher Andrew Morgan. An interview by Alan Macfarlane on 14th May 2000, edited by Sarah Harrison. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 11 Apr 2011
Animal Behaviour and Human Morality in Historical Perspective
Research Seminar given by Prof. Nicolaas Rupke
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Tue 28 Feb 2012
Anne Salmond
Interview of Anne Salmond on her life and work on the history and anthropology of the Pacific and in particular the Maoris. Interview of Anne Salmond, interviewed and filmed by...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Annotating a portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth I on the interactive whiteboard
This clip depicts classroom dialogue in a secondary school history lesson where students in turn annotated a portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth projected onto the interactive...
Collection: Supporting classroom dialogue using interactive whiteboard technology: professional development resources
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Fri 26 Jul 2013