Faculty of History Anniversaries Lectures
The History Faculty is celebrating a number of anniversaries this academic year and has organised a set of events which will not only mark the anniversaries but put them into their historical context of the unfolding of university education and historical scholarship over the past 300 years.
The anniversaries include the 300th of the Regius Professorship of History (1724), the 150th of the Historical Tripos (1873), the 100th of the Historical Journal (1923), and the 75th of the admission of women to degrees (1948).
Alongside discussion panels, exhibitions and an essay competition, each term will feature an anniversary lecture.
Forthcoming events - Easter term
Friday 3 May, 4:00 - 7.00 pm — Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Teaching Imperial & Global History
Keynote by Prof. Erica Charters (University of Oxford), with roundtable discussion. More information here
Tuesday 14 May, 5pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova on the 300th anniversary of the Regius Professorship.
‘The Monarch's History Men: What Has Changed over Three Centuries?’ Poster here
More information on the anniversaries can be found on our dedicated website which will continue to develop to reflect responses to the anniversaries.
New on the anniversaries site is Political Thought and History at Cambridge 1875-2024 by John Robertson, Emeriti Professor of Political Thought.
Watch the Anniversary Lectures from Michaelmas and Lent terms
- The Cambridge Historical Society was set up in 1922 to bring together undergraduates across colleges and the increasing numbers of postgraduates, and in 1923 it began publishing the Cambridge Historical Journal, only the third academic periodical in the field.
- The Historical Tripos is 150 years old. History had previously been taught in connection with the Moral Sciences Tripos since 1851, and having been ejected, for a few years in the Law Tripos. But there was pressure to create a separate Tripos from different directions.