Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections, in MAA exhibition
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.
Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections
03 Dec 2024The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa...
Marking a milestone in English language exams
02 Dec 2024100 million Cambridge English exams and tests have been taken around the world since 1913, according to figures from Cambridge University Press...
Spread the word!
18 Nov 2024Dr Mark Wormald helps launch Elemental Poetry Cambridge – a new project to get the city writing.
Military musicians returning from Napoleonic wars invented Britain’s brass bands
30 Oct 2024Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought, Dr Eamonn O'Keeffe has...
Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
03 Oct 2024A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England’s most vulnerable children while battling their...
Endless Stories at Cambridge University Library
26 Sep 2024Centuries-old Asian and African manuscripts go on display for the first time
The Jungle Book proofs come to Cambridge
05 Sep 2024'Exceptional accumulation of manuscripts and proofs' have a new home at Cambridge University Library
The rise, fall and revival of research on human development
02 Aug 2024A new study takes a tour of the history of research into human embryology and development to show the "cycles of attention" that led to major...
Samuel Pepys’ fashion prints reveal his love of fancy French clothes
22 Jul 2024A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys years after his premature final diary entry. The...
Cambridge students head to the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
18 Jul 2024Learn about the Cambridge student shows set to captivate audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe this August 2024.