Cambridge Dictionary names 'perseverance' Word of the Year 2021
17 Nov 2021Perseverance, a word which captures the undaunted will of people across the world to never give up, despite the many challenges of the last 12 months...
Forgotten heroes: Study gives voice to China's nationalist WWII veterans
04 Nov 2021As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary, new research gives voice to the country's still controversial nationalist (KMT)...
The Fitzwilliam Museum reveals how the Saka people made history and great art
14 Oct 2021A new exhibition of Iron Age treasures recently discovered in East Kazakhstan transforms our understanding of an extraordinary civilisation rooted in...
Queen Elizabeth I would tell Boris to tax the rich rather than cut universal credit, a new book argues
11 Oct 2021A new book about how Covid-19 rocked the world argues that Elizabeth I would have supported the poor in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Drawing Cambridgeshire
08 Oct 2021A collection of drawings by local amateur artist Richard Relhan, showing the history of Cambridgeshire, has been added to the Cambridge Digital...
Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of poetry and song
08 Sep 2021New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already...
The historian gathering fragments of the past to understand how humans tick
07 Sep 2021After he began studying at Cambridge, Sujit Sivasundaram, found the freedom to let his imagination and curiosity roam. Yet his interests and...
Museum of Zoology displays ceramic art to explore Earth's 'breaking points'
21 Jul 2021The museum's reopening exhibition uses the fragility of fired clay to throw attention back on to ecological decline, ecosystem collapse and...
British consumers complicit in forty-year ‘healthy eating’ failure, new study suggests
01 Jul 2021‘Healthy eating’ campaigns have largely failed in Britain for the last four decades because consumers have adapted confusing advice, and incorporated...
The power of touch
17 Jun 2021As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so...
Britain's first colonial anthropology experiment revealed
12 Jun 2021A new exhibition at MAA examines the pioneering ethnographic archive assembled by Britain’s first colonial anthropologist, Cambridge alumnus...
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed a plague of bunions in medieval Britain
11 Jun 2021Researchers analysing skeletal remains in Cambridge find a dramatic increase in ‘hallux valgus’ around the time that pointed shoes became de rigueur...