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Peter Mandler
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Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
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November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Professor Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled Dislocated Families: Women, War, and Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions.

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Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2026 | ASMCF
Sixteenth Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture in French History
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November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Just goes to show exactly when it went out of fashion!
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The Victorians did this regularly with wine, beer and punches, so by then long established (and already old-fashioned!).
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I know it’s easy to call for a Select Committee inquiry and, reader, that’s what I have done
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The science select committee should recognise that its remit covers all of research, and conduct an inquiry into the Library, with a view to helping it recover. It could quantify the funding that is needed to properly rebuild the Library's digital infrastructure, so that an independent case can be made to the government.
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Something I mention in today’s piece is the wider pressure and undervaluing of libraries and archives. Even less well known than the issues facing the British Library are the worrying proposals for the BBC Written Archives Centre. More here observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them. But increasingly they are not prioritised - for example the BBC Written Archives Centre, paid for by public money, is moving to restrict responding to researcher queries, making exploratory research extremely difficult.
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM