The University of Cambridge’s first Master of Studies (MSt) in Creative Writing will explore the art of writing in all its many forms and guises, not just novel writing, according to Course Director Dr Sarah Burton.
Cambridge University Library and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have today announced their first ever joint fundraising campaign to purchase the £1.2 million ‘Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection’, currently owned by the United Reformed Church’s Westminster College.
An unpublished Rupert Brooke poem will sit alongside some of Cambridge University Library’s greatest treasures when a free exhibition of highlights from its priceless collections opens to the public today.
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, paid his final visit to the University before he stood down as Chancellor.
The University of Cambridge has today submitted the names of eight distinguished individuals to the Regent House for approval for the conferment of honorary degrees at a Congregation in the Senate House on Thursday 23 June 2011.
Rex Walford, who is missing, presumed drowned, after the recent tragic boating accident on the Thames, was a man who took enjoyment of life seriously; whether teaching or learning, whether in church or on the stage, whether at Fenners or presenting workshops about musical theatre, he displayed a sheer passion for living which was infectious and exhausting for those around him.
Six Cambridge academics have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
A fascinating series of talks for adults and older teenagers will be on offer on the busy Saturday at the heart of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, on 23 October.
An internationally acclaimed biographer of the American author Jack Kerouac (pictured)will be at the University of Cambridge later this week to give a talk titled 'The Writer Kerouac, the mythological Kerouac, the popular Kerouac and the Real Kerouac'.
The transformation of Cambridge University Press from the mid-20th century will be examined in a three-part lecture series starting on 26 April.
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