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Digital technologies are opening up new fields of study and generating research questions that breach traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Detail from Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49), Polonaise in A-flat major for piano, Op. 53: autograph manuscript, 1842–43.

The virtual Chopin

01 Mar 2013

One of the greatest composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin, had an irrepressible creative imagination, and his music experienced continual...

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Digital news.

Media models for the digital age

06 Sep 2011

The headlines don’t look too good for newspapers. With falling readership and growing competition from the Internet, newspapers are questioning how...

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Pliegos sueltos Diego Corrientes (S743.1.c.8.2)

Read all about it!

08 Mar 2011

A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...

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Genizah fragment

Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history

10 Jan 2011

New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.

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Shahnama (c.1435)

The Book of Kings: the epic continues

01 Nov 2010

A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.

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Extract from the 1641 Depositions at Trinity College Dublin Library

Eyewitness accounts of 1641 Irish rebellion released

25 Oct 2010

The first-hand testimonies of thousands of people who witnessed the bloody rebellion that paved the way for centuries of sectarian conflict in...

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English collage

Reading closely: Faculty of English

01 May 2010

Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.

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15th-century manuscript

A scriptorium of commonplace books

01 May 2010

A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.

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Ski jump, Alfred Hugh Fisher, 1867-1945

Digital Cambridge takes off

01 May 2008

Are you keen to make your research more widely visible or store and preserve your digital material?

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A version of Shahnama: a battle between Iran and Turan

Bringing together the Book of Kings

08 Feb 2008

The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.

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