The Personal-Histories Project is an on-going, educational, oral-histories research effort spearheaded by Pamela Jane Smith of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University. Each year, during term, senior scientists are invited to share their memories and life stories. Through their recollections, we better understand twentieth-century science and the development of anthropology and archaeology. Featured in the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 films are Colin Renfrew, Mike Schiffer, Paul Mellars, Meg Conkey, Henrietta Moore, Alison Wylie, Richard Bradley, Chris...
26th April 2016
Trinity College Cambridge
Panellists
Sogo Akintaro
Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Lola Olufemi
Johanna Riha
Njoki Wamai
Richelle George, Pamela Jane Smith, Gabrielle Zemsky,
THANK
Trinity College Cambridge
McDonald Institute for Archaeological...
Published 06/02/18
We were so honoured that, on 12 October 2009, Sir David Attenborough spoke at our Personal Histories of Media and Archaeology about his young life as a producer of the famed 1950s BBC programme, “Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral”.
His good friends and well-known colleagues, Ray Sutcliffe, Anna...
Published 06/16/17
Histories from People of Colour in Cambridge
26th April 2016, Trinity College, Cambridge
Panellists:
Njoki Wamai
Johanna Rita
Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Lola Olufemi
Sogo Akintaro
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Published 07/19/16