Music lovers are invited to a free public performance of classical music composed by former Director of Music at King’s College, Sir Philip Ledger at Christ’s College on Wednesday, 17 February.
An exciting play that explores the life of the controversial Cambridge character, and arguably the greatest scientist of his era, Sir Isaac Newton, is to be performed as part of the University’s 800th anniversary celebrations.
The search has begun to find a successor for the current Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard.
"Fame", John Milton once wrote, "is no plant that grows on mortal soil". Even the great poet himself, however, might have struggled to imagine the global scale on which his achievements are being celebrated four centuries later.
Daniel Luban, a student at the University’s Faculty of History, has become the first recipient of the newly established Skinner Prize.
A study of how the Victorians considered transforming the British Empire into a “Greater Britain”, written by a Cambridge academic, has been announced as the joint winner of the 2008 Whitfield Book Prize.
