Arts and humanities

Cambridge Creative Encounters exhibition goes on display at Cambridge Central Library

25 Jul 2022

Cambridge Creative Encounters exhibition, a unique project of artistic creations that showcase some of the world’s burning research questions in...

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Book of Deer on display in Scotland

12 Jul 2022

Scotland’s oldest surviving manuscript goes on display at Aberdeen Art Gallery

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Characters from the Cambridge Latin Course, Book One

New Cambridge Latin course reflects diversity of the Roman world

11 Jul 2022

The latest edition of the leading Latin course has been designed to more accurately depict the roles of women, minorities and enslaved people in the...

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Returned ‘Tree of Life’ notebooks go on display

08 Jul 2022

‘Darwin in Conversation’ reveals how the famed naturalist’s global network of correspondents shaped his ideas around the evolution of life on planet...

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The photographer sharing the secrets of rare manuscripts

05 Jul 2022

When Amélie Deblauwe cycled to work on 21 June 2019 she had no idea that by lunchtime she’d be in A&E and not leave the hospital for five weeks...

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Devil-Land by Dr Clare Jackson wins the Wolfson History Prize 2022

23 Jun 2022

A book about Britain’s tumultuous seventeenth century by Cambridge historian Dr Clare Jackson has triumphed in one of the most prestigious prizes for...

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Canterbury suburbs were home to some of Britain’s earliest humans

22 Jun 2022

Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, England, confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and...

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Faust Shop promotion image showing a man in his living room in a car park

Cambridge pop-up experience explores the Faustian pacts we make with digital tech

13 Jun 2022

FAUST SHOP, a pop-up installation and performance in Cambridge asks visitors to think about their daily interactions with digital technology. And...

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 Student performing on rigging at the University of Stockholm’s ‘Department of Circus’, which explores different disciplines through circus arts.

“Write fewer papers, take more risks”: researchers call for ‘rebellion’

06 Jun 2022

A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship, arguing that...

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Discarded history: Cairo Genizah treasures

31 May 2022

How the discovery and study of ancient deeds, fables, letters, magical amulets, contracts and lists in a sacred storeroom created unparalleled...

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Parasites from feasting at Stonehenge found in prehistoric faeces

20 May 2022

A study of ancient faeces uncovered at a settlement thought to have housed builders of Stonehenge suggests that parasites got consumed via badly-...

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Henry VIII statue on the Great Gate of Trinity College Cambridge

Katherine Parr did not persuade Henry VIII to found Trinity College Cambridge

17 May 2022

King Henry VIII had already made up his mind to found Trinity College Cambridge and Christ Church Oxford before Cambridge lobbied his queen, a re-...

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