Public engagement
Samuel Butler was a man with big ideas and a big imagination. He wrote on literature, science, art and religion, always thinking outside the box and encouraging others to see things in new ways.
Cambridge Festival of Ideas debate to examine the changing nature of political speeches.
A University of Cambridge academic is to suggest that grown-ups enjoy children’s classics because they are dissatisfied with life in the adult world.
The curious bronze, knuckle-shaped object pictured is an ancient weight excavated from the east coast of Italy. The inscription scrawled along its side is written in the language of ancient people, known to the Romans as the Frentani.
Thousands of people enjoyed a chance to explore Cambridge’s secrets and scenic paths earlier this month thanks to Open Cambridge (9/10 September) and the tenth annual Bridge the Gap charity walk on Sunday, 11 September.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins are two late star additions to this year’s Festival of Ideas line-up at Cambridge University.
John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures.
‘The Blimp’ is one of the items telling the story of Christ’s College during the First World War.
In the second of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 15th-century prayer book owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother to Henry VII and foundress of St John’s College.
In the first of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 12th-century Bury Bible from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College.
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![Detail from a front cover of "The Blimp", 1917.](https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/styles/focus-on-135x137/public/news/research/news/110831-blimp-again.jpg?itok=h1KU98Kn "Detail from a front cover of "The Blimp", 1917., Credit: Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge.")
