Museum Encounters: Parkinson's Dance Course
11 Apr 2025The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) today launch a ground-breaking Parkinson's dance programme inspired by museum artefacts.
Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue
10 Apr 2025The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring...
Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies: medieval medicine examined in Curious Cures exhibition
27 Mar 2025Ancient manuscripts reveal complex theories behind the terrifying treatments of the medieval era
Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets
24 Mar 2025Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s have been discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge...
How will history tell our stories?
24 Mar 2025Historian Helen McCarthy helps us make sense of our recent past. She infuses her subjects – from working mothers to modern retirees – with urgency...
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Martin Ruehl
19 Mar 2025Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a University Associate Professor in German History...
Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises
17 Mar 2025Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian...
Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day
07 Mar 2025For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women...
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sarah Hart
03 Mar 2025Professor Sarah Hart is a British mathematician specialising in group theory and author. She is Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Fellow of...
Exploding into life: Volcanic power erupts at Downing's Magma Rising exhibition
26 Feb 2025New exhibition – including works by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and Xbox Game Studio Ninja Theory – showcases the...
Can ancient dead languages save today's endangered languages? A tale of identity and visibility
24 Feb 2025The world is facing a language crisis. Of its c.7,000 languages, Glottolog estimates that only 35% are safe - the rest are at varying stages of being...
The queer men of H staircase
11 Feb 2025For the past 300 years, the Gibbs Building at King’s College, Cambridge, has been home to many of history’s most influential characters. A new book...