A pioneering research centre studying live musical performance as creative practice launches in the Faculty of Music in October with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Researchers at the Faculty of Divinity are using ancient manuscript fragments to re-evaluate a forgotten episode of biblical history.
One of the most famous trials in history has been misrepresented as a miscarriage of justice, when it was really a legitimate case of democracy in action, a controversial new study claims.
Drs Emma Wilson and François Penz will today be presented with their medals for the prestigious Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in a ceremony with the French ambassador to the UK M. Maurice Gourdault-Montagne.
Miranda Gill traces shifting 19th-century perceptions of eccentricity, from its association with the intoxicating lure of modernity and fashion to the murky underworld of circus freaks and half-mad visionaries.
For children obsessed by Top Trumps, a new collection of free playing cards being handed out by Cambridge University’s Museums – starting with the Museums Fair this Saturday - could prove a hit.
New evidence which reveals how the Vikings successfully blended into British and Irish culture long before they were consigned to history as barbaric raiders is to be presented at a Cambridge University conference.
A zero-carbon home which could become a template for larger-scale production in the UK has been unveiled.
Ever wondered what happens in a museum once the lights go out?
Recent funding will enable collaboration between classicists and museum curators, and shape a major re-display of Greek and Roman art and archaeology.
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