Davide Cadeddu
@davidecadeddu.bsky.social
Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Milan | Fellow Commoner of Clare Hall, Cambridge | davidecadeddu.eu
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CRASSH summer reading 📚
An interdisciplinary reading list courtesy of CRASSH’s research community - happy reading!
https://bit.ly/4aBBVK9
An interdisciplinary reading list courtesy of CRASSH’s research community - happy reading!
https://bit.ly/4aBBVK9
July 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM
CRASSH summer reading 📚
An interdisciplinary reading list courtesy of CRASSH’s research community - happy reading!
https://bit.ly/4aBBVK9
An interdisciplinary reading list courtesy of CRASSH’s research community - happy reading!
https://bit.ly/4aBBVK9
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Cambridge historians John Arnold and Mia Bay elected as Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities 👏👏
They are among six Cambridge academics to be elected to @britishacademy.bsky.social for 2026.
🔎 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/british...
They are among six Cambridge academics to be elected to @britishacademy.bsky.social for 2026.
🔎 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/british...
July 21, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Cambridge historians John Arnold and Mia Bay elected as Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities 👏👏
They are among six Cambridge academics to be elected to @britishacademy.bsky.social for 2026.
🔎 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/british...
They are among six Cambridge academics to be elected to @britishacademy.bsky.social for 2026.
🔎 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/british...
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🏆🌿 Clare Hall has won the University of Cambridge Environmental Sustainability Award for Best Environmental Impact (College Category)!
We're also proud that our Kitchens Team received a Highly Commended award for Best Environmental Improvement.
We're also proud that our Kitchens Team received a Highly Commended award for Best Environmental Improvement.
June 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
🏆🌿 Clare Hall has won the University of Cambridge Environmental Sustainability Award for Best Environmental Impact (College Category)!
We're also proud that our Kitchens Team received a Highly Commended award for Best Environmental Improvement.
We're also proud that our Kitchens Team received a Highly Commended award for Best Environmental Improvement.
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A huge thank you to everyone across the College whose dedication helps make these achievements possible. Congratulations to all involved! 💚
Read more: www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-h...
Read more: www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-h...
June 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
A huge thank you to everyone across the College whose dedication helps make these achievements possible. Congratulations to all involved! 💚
Read more: www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-h...
Read more: www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/clare-h...
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'The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I' by Professor Clare Jackson wins 2026 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, beating a “formidable” shortlist 👏👏
The judges praised "a masterwork by a historian uniquely equipped to reinterpret James VI and I and his times".
The judges praised "a masterwork by a historian uniquely equipped to reinterpret James VI and I and his times".
June 18, 2026 at 11:07 AM
'The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I' by Professor Clare Jackson wins 2026 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, beating a “formidable” shortlist 👏👏
The judges praised "a masterwork by a historian uniquely equipped to reinterpret James VI and I and his times".
The judges praised "a masterwork by a historian uniquely equipped to reinterpret James VI and I and his times".
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L’Italien Carlo Ginzburg, figure fondatrice de la microhistoire, est mort
L’Italien Carlo Ginzburg, figure fondatrice de la microhistoire, est mort
Par ses recherches sur les procès de l’Inquisition dans l’Europe des XVᵉ et XVIᵉ siècles, il avait amorcé un bouleversement profond de la science historique. Il s’est éteint le 17 juin à l’âge de 87 ans.
www.lemonde.fr
June 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
L’Italien Carlo Ginzburg, figure fondatrice de la microhistoire, est mort
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'Francis Bacon and the crisis of the palatinate'
Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June
https://bit.ly/442lfre
Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL) will discuss Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War
Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June
https://bit.ly/442lfre
Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL) will discuss Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War
June 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
'Francis Bacon and the crisis of the palatinate'
Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June
https://bit.ly/442lfre
Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL) will discuss Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War
Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June
https://bit.ly/442lfre
Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL) will discuss Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War
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Prof Eugenio Biagini elected to the Academia Europaea recognising his outstanding contributions to research 👏👏
Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Fellow of @sidneysussex.bsky.social, is a leading historian of liberalism and democracy, with a particular focus on Irish history.
Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Fellow of @sidneysussex.bsky.social, is a leading historian of liberalism and democracy, with a particular focus on Irish history.
June 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Prof Eugenio Biagini elected to the Academia Europaea recognising his outstanding contributions to research 👏👏
Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Fellow of @sidneysussex.bsky.social, is a leading historian of liberalism and democracy, with a particular focus on Irish history.
Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Fellow of @sidneysussex.bsky.social, is a leading historian of liberalism and democracy, with a particular focus on Irish history.
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Explore new books from Cambridge historians:
➡Selling the Word of God by @harryspillane.bsky.social
➡The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States ed. by @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social
➡Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul by @extispex.bsky.social
Discover more⬇️
➡Selling the Word of God by @harryspillane.bsky.social
➡The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States ed. by @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social
➡Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul by @extispex.bsky.social
Discover more⬇️
June 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Explore new books from Cambridge historians:
➡Selling the Word of God by @harryspillane.bsky.social
➡The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States ed. by @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social
➡Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul by @extispex.bsky.social
Discover more⬇️
➡Selling the Word of God by @harryspillane.bsky.social
➡The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States ed. by @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social
➡Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul by @extispex.bsky.social
Discover more⬇️
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Helen McCarthy, Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History @cam.ac.uk, has joined the judging panel for the Wolfson History Prize 👏👏
@historianhelen.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social
@historianhelen.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social
We are delighted to welcome Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social to the Wolfson History Prize judging panel for 2026.
Find out more about Helen’s remarkable work, from the history of the working mother to the first female diplomats, here: bit.ly/4tK6ILy
Find out more about Helen’s remarkable work, from the history of the working mother to the first female diplomats, here: bit.ly/4tK6ILy
Helen McCarthy joins Wolfson History Prize judging panel for 2026 - The Wolfson History Prize
Helen McCarthy joins the Wolfson History Prize judging panel for 2026.
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May 21, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Helen McCarthy, Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History @cam.ac.uk, has joined the judging panel for the Wolfson History Prize 👏👏
@historianhelen.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social
@historianhelen.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social
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📢 Approaching fast: join Professor Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews) next week for the first of the Seeley Lectures.
These are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in political thought and its history.
Her four lectures start next week on 19 & 21 May ⬇️⬇️
These are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in political thought and its history.
Her four lectures start next week on 19 & 21 May ⬇️⬇️
📢 Join us for 2026 Seeley Lectures from Prof Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews)
“Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern”
📅 19, 21, 26, 28 May
⏲️ All 4 lectures start @ 5pm
🏢 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
🔎 Free, no booking needed
Please share🙏 @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
“Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern”
📅 19, 21, 26, 28 May
⏲️ All 4 lectures start @ 5pm
🏢 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
🔎 Free, no booking needed
Please share🙏 @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
May 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
📢 Approaching fast: join Professor Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews) next week for the first of the Seeley Lectures.
These are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in political thought and its history.
Her four lectures start next week on 19 & 21 May ⬇️⬇️
These are given biennially by a distinguished visitor to Cambridge on a topic in political thought and its history.
Her four lectures start next week on 19 & 21 May ⬇️⬇️
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Save the date for the Cambridge American History Workshop Conference
Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War.
📅 22 May
⏲️ 9am-5pm
🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge
Free, open to all
🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...
Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War.
📅 22 May
⏲️ 9am-5pm
🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge
Free, open to all
🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...
May 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Save the date for the Cambridge American History Workshop Conference
Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War.
📅 22 May
⏲️ 9am-5pm
🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge
Free, open to all
🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...
Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War.
📅 22 May
⏲️ 9am-5pm
🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge
Free, open to all
🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...
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📢 Join us for 2026 Seeley Lectures from Prof Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews)
“Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern”
📅 19, 21, 26, 28 May
⏲️ All 4 lectures start @ 5pm
🏢 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
🔎 Free, no booking needed
Please share🙏 @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
“Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern”
📅 19, 21, 26, 28 May
⏲️ All 4 lectures start @ 5pm
🏢 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
🔎 Free, no booking needed
Please share🙏 @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
April 21, 2026 at 1:15 PM
📢 Join us for 2026 Seeley Lectures from Prof Caroline Humfress (Uni. of St Andrews)
“Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern”
📅 19, 21, 26, 28 May
⏲️ All 4 lectures start @ 5pm
🏢 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
🔎 Free, no booking needed
Please share🙏 @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
“Constitutional Imaginaries, Ancient and Modern”
📅 19, 21, 26, 28 May
⏲️ All 4 lectures start @ 5pm
🏢 McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
🔎 Free, no booking needed
Please share🙏 @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Dr Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (Modern Intellectual History, UCL) who has been selected as Quentin Skinner Fellow 2026
The Quentin Skinner lecture 'Francis Bacon and the Crisis of the Palatinate' will take place on 19 June, details to follow soon
With @cam-english-fac.bsky.social
The Quentin Skinner lecture 'Francis Bacon and the Crisis of the Palatinate' will take place on 19 June, details to follow soon
With @cam-english-fac.bsky.social
April 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Congratulations to Dr Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (Modern Intellectual History, UCL) who has been selected as Quentin Skinner Fellow 2026
The Quentin Skinner lecture 'Francis Bacon and the Crisis of the Palatinate' will take place on 19 June, details to follow soon
With @cam-english-fac.bsky.social
The Quentin Skinner lecture 'Francis Bacon and the Crisis of the Palatinate' will take place on 19 June, details to follow soon
With @cam-english-fac.bsky.social
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Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (Cambridge) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🎥 As Clare Hall marks its 60th Anniversary, Professor David Cope, Foundation Fellow, reflects on his time at the College and the values that have shaped it over the decades.
With the 60th Anniversary Giving Week and Festival of Events just around the corner, the celebrations are about to begin.
With the 60th Anniversary Giving Week and Festival of Events just around the corner, the celebrations are about to begin.
April 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM
🎥 As Clare Hall marks its 60th Anniversary, Professor David Cope, Foundation Fellow, reflects on his time at the College and the values that have shaped it over the decades.
With the 60th Anniversary Giving Week and Festival of Events just around the corner, the celebrations are about to begin.
With the 60th Anniversary Giving Week and Festival of Events just around the corner, the celebrations are about to begin.
Tuesday, 14 April 2026, at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, roundtable discussion “Machiavellian Democracy? Conversations with John P. McCormick” #Machiavelli #HistoryOfPoliticalThought #Republicanism #Democracy #JohnMcCormick
April 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Tuesday, 14 April 2026, at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, roundtable discussion “Machiavellian Democracy? Conversations with John P. McCormick” #Machiavelli #HistoryOfPoliticalThought #Republicanism #Democracy #JohnMcCormick
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📢 Doctoral and early career historians: submit your abstracts for the 1-day Cambridge-based workshop examining the history of Black health and healthcare in 20th-century Britain.
Submission deadline: 1 April
Workshop date: 29 May
More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...
Submission deadline: 1 April
Workshop date: 29 May
More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...
March 23, 2026 at 1:23 PM
📢 Doctoral and early career historians: submit your abstracts for the 1-day Cambridge-based workshop examining the history of Black health and healthcare in 20th-century Britain.
Submission deadline: 1 April
Workshop date: 29 May
More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...
Submission deadline: 1 April
Workshop date: 29 May
More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...
Yesterday 19 March 2026, this term's The Betty Behrens Seminar ended with a discussion on E.P. Thompson, introduced by Emma Griffin. Previously, successful as well were the seminars introduced by Youssef M. Choueiri and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social
March 20, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Yesterday 19 March 2026, this term's The Betty Behrens Seminar ended with a discussion on E.P. Thompson, introduced by Emma Griffin. Previously, successful as well were the seminars introduced by Youssef M. Choueiri and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social
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Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by Adrian Blau, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner’s seminal essay.
@adrianblau.bsky.social
Now Open Access:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
@adrianblau.bsky.social
Now Open Access:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond | Home
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
March 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by Adrian Blau, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner’s seminal essay.
@adrianblau.bsky.social
Now Open Access:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
@adrianblau.bsky.social
Now Open Access:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Now out in OA: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" by John Dunn (@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social): "[It] will be a heroic challenge... The stakes in meeting it are the possibility of democracy itself, a citizenry that has recovered the capacity to keep itself free" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
March 18, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Now out in OA: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" by John Dunn (@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social): "[It] will be a heroic challenge... The stakes in meeting it are the possibility of democracy itself, a citizenry that has recovered the capacity to keep itself free" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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📕Compte rendu / Review
Oswyn Murray, The Muse of History: The Ancient #Greeks from the #Enlightenment to the Present, Allen Lane, 2024.
par Alain Schnapp (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) et Annie Schnapp (@univ-paris8.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Oswyn Murray, The Muse of History: The Ancient #Greeks from the #Enlightenment to the Present, Allen Lane, 2024.
par Alain Schnapp (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) et Annie Schnapp (@univ-paris8.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
March 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
📕Compte rendu / Review
Oswyn Murray, The Muse of History: The Ancient #Greeks from the #Enlightenment to the Present, Allen Lane, 2024.
par Alain Schnapp (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) et Annie Schnapp (@univ-paris8.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Oswyn Murray, The Muse of History: The Ancient #Greeks from the #Enlightenment to the Present, Allen Lane, 2024.
par Alain Schnapp (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) et Annie Schnapp (@univ-paris8.fr)
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
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Congratulations to Clare Hall Professorial Fellow Prof George van Kooten on his new book "Reverberations of Good News: The Gospels in Context" 📚
He will present the work at major conferences this year, including the British New Testament Conference, EABS and the Society of Biblical Literature.
He will present the work at major conferences this year, including the British New Testament Conference, EABS and the Society of Biblical Literature.
March 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Congratulations to Clare Hall Professorial Fellow Prof George van Kooten on his new book "Reverberations of Good News: The Gospels in Context" 📚
He will present the work at major conferences this year, including the British New Testament Conference, EABS and the Society of Biblical Literature.
He will present the work at major conferences this year, including the British New Testament Conference, EABS and the Society of Biblical Literature.
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Last chance to register: major conference celebrating 250 years of 'The Wealth of Nations': the most famous text in the history of political economy and economics.
Leading historians and economists will assess its legacy & ask what it means for the next century.
Free, open to public, link below ⬇️⬇️
Leading historians and economists will assess its legacy & ask what it means for the next century.
Free, open to public, link below ⬇️⬇️
March 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Last chance to register: major conference celebrating 250 years of 'The Wealth of Nations': the most famous text in the history of political economy and economics.
Leading historians and economists will assess its legacy & ask what it means for the next century.
Free, open to public, link below ⬇️⬇️
Leading historians and economists will assess its legacy & ask what it means for the next century.
Free, open to public, link below ⬇️⬇️