Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland
19 July 2011A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...
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A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...
As the drive to increase food production gathers pace, conservation scientists suggest that reconciling food security with protecting biodiversity might require unexpected solutions.
A “total immersion” event in Cambridge this weekend marks the climax of a conference examining the work of performers and their creative role in making...
'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items – and were used as the basis for an...
Far from being merely ‘dirt’, soil plays a fundamental role in food production, water availability and biodiversity. A new research programme aims to safeguard its...
Dr Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor and Fellow of Clare College, has been awarded the prestigious 2011 British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Dingle...
Freedom, revolution and communication have shaped human history since the earliest days of mankind.
Research provides opportunity for identifying genes linked to autism.
A programme convening business leaders and policy makers is helping to identify the value to business of nature – and the step changes needed to...
Mathematical modelling is an important weapon in the armoury against crop disease, as plant epidemiologists demonstrated when they turned their sights on root madness in...