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Historical Tripos
The Faculty of History is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge. Teaching and research of history has centuries old roots at Cambridge and the first Regius Professorship of Modern History was established by King George I in 1724. The History Faculty is one of the largest history departments in the world with well over a hundred faculty members. Each academic year a new intake more than two hundred undergraduates is admitted and the Faculty also has more than 450 graduate students studying for masters degrees and the PhD. It is notable among Cambridge's faculties for the influence of its alumni in public life. The Faculty is divided into eight subject groups (i.e. areas of research and teaching): American History; Ancient and Medieval History; Early Modern History; Economic, Social and Cultural History; Modern British History; Modern European History; Political Thought And Intellectual History; and World History. Courses offered At undergraduate le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidgwick Site
The Sidgwick Site is one of the largest sites within the University of Cambridge, England. Overview and history The Sidgwick Site is located on the western side of Cambridge city centre, near the Backs. The site is north of Sidgwick Avenue and south of West Road, Cambridge, West Road, and is home to several of the university's arts and humanities faculties. The site is named after the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, who studied at Cambridge in the 19th century. The site as it is now has its origins in plans drawn up by Hugh Casson, Casson and Conder in 1952 for making use of land to the west of the Cambridge city centre which was previously used as cricket grounds for Corpus_Christi_College,_Cambridge, Corpus Christi college. Much of the site's current architecture derives from these original plans. However, many faculty buildings, especially to the north of the site, have been designed by separate architects with little reference to the coherence of the site as a whole. In July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professorships
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word ''professor'' is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers. Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, postgraduate, or professional courses in their fields of expertise. In universities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Cambridge (west)
There are 833 listed buildings (as of December 2023) in the non-metropolitan district, district of Cambridge, England. This list summarises the 87 in the west and north-west suburbs, in the area west of the Backs and broadly between Huntingdon Road, Queen's Road, Cambridge, Queen's Road, Barton Road and the M11 motorway, M11. This was the West Fields, which largely passed into the ownership of the Cambridge colleges, particularly St John's College, Cambridge, St John's, after enclosure in 1805, and was little developed until after 1870; the older population centres of Castle Hill, Cambridge, Castle Hill and Newnham, Cambridgeshire, Newnham are excluded from this list. The major roads are Madingley Road running east–west and Grange Road, Cambridge, Grange Road running north–south. There are 18 buildings listed at grade II*, with the remainder at grade II; there are no grade-I-listed buildings in this area. Many of the listed buildings and structures are associated with University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Maxwell (historian)
David James Maxwell (born 8 December 1963) is a British historian and academic, specialising in the missionary movement and Christianity in Africa. He is the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge and professorial fellow of Emmanuel College. Early life Maxwell was born on 8 December 1963 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.'MAXWELL, Prof. David James', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201accessed 30 Aug 2017/ref> He studied history at the University of Manchester, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1986. He went on to undertake postgraduate research in African History at St Antony's College, Oxford, and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1994. His doctoral thesis was titled "''A social and conceptual history of North-East Zimbabwe, 1890–1990''". Academic career Maxwell began his academic career not as a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixie Professor Of Ecclesiastical History
The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Cambridge. Lord Mayor of London in the 16th century, Sir Wolstan Dixie, left funds to found both scholarships and fellowships at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1878 the fellowships were abolished and replaced by the professorship that still bears his name. Dixie Professors * Mandell Creighton (1884) * Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1891-1912) * James Pounder Whitney (1919-1939) * Norman Sykes FBA (1944) * William Owen Chadwick William Owen Chadwick (20 May 1916 – 17 July 2015) was a British Anglican priest, academic, rugby international,Ernest Gordon Rupp (1968) * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samita Sen
Samita Sen is an Indian historian and academic. Having previously taught at the University of Calcutta and Jadavpur University, she has been Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge since 2018. Early life and education Sen studied history at the University of Calcutta, graduating with Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees. She then studied at the University of Cambridge, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1992. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Women workers in the Bengal jute industry, 1890-1940: migration, motherhood and militancy". Academic career Sen was a Prize Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1990 and 1994. From 1994 to 2018, she taught history at the University of Calcutta, and women's studies at Jadavpur University. She reached the rank of Reader at Calcutta and professor at Jadavpur. She was Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at Jadavpur University from 2016 to 2018. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vere Harmsworth Professor Of Imperial And Naval History
The Vere Harmsworth Professorship of Imperial and Naval History is one of the senior List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge, professorships in history at the University of Cambridge. After the Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, Beit Professorship of Colonial History at University of Oxford, Oxford (founded in 1905) and the Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, Rhodes Professorship of Imperial History at King's College London (founded in 1919), it is the third oldest chair in its subject in the world. In 1919 Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere endowed a "Professorship of Naval History" at Cambridge with a donation of £20,000, in memory of his son Vere who was killed at the Battle of Ancre in November 1916. In 1932 the Royal Empire Society successfully campaigned for Cambridge to accept the renaming of the chair to "The Professorship of Imperial and Naval History", under which rubric a new professor was appointed in 1934. Among the holders of this presti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Dubow
Saul H. Dubow, (born 28 October 1959) is a South African historian and academic, specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He previously taught at University of Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London. Early life and education Dubow was born on 28 October 1959 in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1981. He then moved to England to undertake postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. As a member of St Antony's College, Oxford, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1986. His doctoral thesis was titled "Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936", which formed the basis for his first book, Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid (1989). A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smuts Professor Of Commonwealth History
The Smuts Professorship of Commonwealth History was established on 25 October 1952 as the Smuts Professorship of the History of the British Commonwealth; it was retitled in 1994. The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.Venn Cambridge University database List of Smuts Professors of Commonwealth History * Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh (1953–1970) * (1970–1981) *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Of Medieval History (Cambridge)
The Professorship of Medieval History is a professorship in medieval history at the University of Cambridge. It was founded on 1 May 1937. The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of History. List of Professors of Medieval History The following have held the chair: * 1937–1942: Charles William Previté-Orton * 1944–1946: Zachary Nugent Brooke * 1947–1954: David Knowles * 1955–1972: Christopher Robert Cheney * 1972–1978: Walter Ullmann * 1978–1988: James Clarke Holt * 1988–1999: Richard Barrie Dobson * 1999–2016: Rosamond McKitterick * 2016–present: John H. Arnold References {{DEFAULTSORT:Professor of Medieval History, *, Cambridge Medieval History In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ... Medieval History, *, Cambridge 1937 esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Bay
Mia Bay is an American historian and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies American and African-American intellectual and cultural history and is the author of, among others, ''The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925'' and ''To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells''. Life and career Bay earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993 and is a professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Rutgers University where she also served as co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and is a member of the Organization of American Historians. She was awarded the Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
