Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day
07 Mar 2025For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women...
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sarah Hart
03 Mar 2025Professor Sarah Hart is a British mathematician specialising in group theory and author. She is Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Fellow of...
Exploding into life: Volcanic power erupts at Downing's Magma Rising exhibition
26 Feb 2025New exhibition – including works by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and Xbox Game Studio Ninja Theory – showcases the...
Can ancient dead languages save today's endangered languages? A tale of identity and visibility
24 Feb 2025The world is facing a language crisis. Of its c.7,000 languages, Glottolog estimates that only 35% are safe - the rest are at varying stages of being...
The queer men of H staircase
11 Feb 2025For the past 300 years, the Gibbs Building at King’s College, Cambridge, has been home to many of history’s most influential characters. A new book...
The Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement
03 Feb 2025Meet the winner of the Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
‘Altar tent’ discovery puts Islamic art at the heart of medieval Christianity
01 Feb 2025A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. Dr...
The codemakers
24 Jan 2025The 2025 Darwin Lecture series looks at codes, be they computational, mathematical, biological, linguistic or even musical.
Brits still associate working-class accents with criminal behaviour – study warns of bias in the criminal justice system
17 Jan 2025People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as...
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
23 Dec 2024It’s a key feature of a school nativity play, but what’s the science behind the Star of Bethlehem?
Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections
08 Dec 2024'Fault Lines', a new exhibition at MAA, offers an intimate exploration of Pacific cultures guided by Indigenous curators and contemporary artists...
Professor Joya Chatterji awarded Wolfson History Prize 2024
03 Dec 2024Chatterji wins for Shadows at Noon , her genre-defying history of South Asia during the 20th century.