Collections-based research and innovation receives vital investment from Research England
09 Apr 2024Research England has supported nine of the University’s museums and collections with £3m a year of Higher Education Museums, Galleries and...
An early medieval money mystery is solved
09 Apr 2024Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in...
Britain industrialised much earlier than history books claim
05 Apr 2024Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s – suggesting the...
Last chance to record archaic Greek language ‘heading for extinction’
03 Apr 2024A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language...
Reclaim ‘wellness’ from the rich and famous, and restore its political radicalism, new book argues
28 Mar 2024A new cultural history of the 1970s wellness industry offers urgent lessons for today. It reveals that in the seventies, wellness was neither...
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet
25 Mar 2024George the Poet is a spoken word performer whose innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and a...
Murder by the Book: a celebration of 20th century British crime fiction
22 Mar 2024Priceless first editions and Agatha Christie artefacts on display at Cambridge University Library.
Cambridge ReseARch Trail
14 Mar 2024A new augmented reality trail, launched as part of the Cambridge Festival, is showcasing the world leading research of the University of Cambridge in...
Romani storytelling, amazing animals and science fun for all: A feast of family fun at the Cambridge Festival 2024
05 Mar 2024The Cambridge Festival family weekend is back on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March. Taking place across the New Museums Site in the centre of Cambridge...
Time, crime and how can the arts interact with a Natural World in decline?
04 Mar 2024Each year the Cambridge Festival’s (13-28 March 2024) rich programme of events celebrates the arts across the city and this year is no exception.
Astrolabe reveals Islamic–Jewish scientific exchange
04 Mar 2024The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever...
Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study finds
27 Feb 2024The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge...