The forgotten poet of Fordham
10 December 2019Handwritten verses from a nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire poet – who died destitute despite royal patronage – have been saved by Cambridge University Library.
Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child mortality during Victorian era
15 May 2018A new interactive online atlas, which illustrates when, where and possibly how fertility rates began to fall in England and Wales during the Victorian era has been made freely available from today.
Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history, researchers claim
02 December 2016Amid ongoing welfare cuts, researchers argue that investment in health and social care have been integral to British economic success since 1600.
Infant bodies were ‘prized’ by 19th century anatomists, study suggests
01 July 2016A study of the University of Cambridge anatomy collection dating from the 1700s and 1800s shows how the bodies of stillborn foetuses and babies were valued for research into human development, and preserved as important teaching aids.
The archaeology of childhood
30 January 2016A sledge made from a horse’s jaw, the remains of a medieval puppet, the coffin of a one-year-old Roman child, and the skeleton of an Anglo-Saxon girl will all go on display in Cambridge today as part of a unique exhibition illuminating the archaeology of childhood.
Are you a dog-person, a cat-person, or a bear-person?
16 September 2015The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, P is for Pet. Cultural geographer Dr Philip Howell and PhD student Makoto Takahashi examine both the lighter and darker sides of pet keeping as a national obsession.
Samuel Butler celebrated
07 May 2013The completion of the Samuel Butler Project will be celebrated in an exhibition at St John’s College on 11 May. In accompanying talks, Roger Robinson and Simon Heffer will explore contrasting aspects of the Victorian writer who attacked the hypocrisy of his society. The event is free and open to the public.
Past versus present in an age of progress: the Victorians
14 October 2011Interdisciplinary research has to be the answer when it comes to understanding the Victorians, writes Professor Simon Goldhill, one of the researchers involved in a £1.2 million project on Victorian Britain that is reaching the end of its five-year programme.
‘What have the Victorians ever done for us?’
01 February 2007Modern Britain was invented sometime between 1830 and 1900. It's not just a question of industrialization, compulsory education, the right to vote (at least for men) or the growth of towns, important as all those particular processes were.
