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New undergraduate courses for 2017

16 Mar 2016

The University has launched three new undergraduate courses for 2017 entry - Single Honours Archaeology and two Joint Honours programmes: History...

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The Vikings are coming

Opinion: From Medieval kings to modern politics: the origins of England’s North-South divide

26 Feb 2016

Fiona Edmonds (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) discusses devolution and the medieval kingdoms of England.

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Charles I and Henrietta Maria with their children by Anthony Van Dyke (detail)

The language and literature of chastity

09 Feb 2016

In her debut book, Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson (Faculty of English) shows how deeply the Christian virtue of chastity was embedded into the culture of...

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One of several letters Crook sent from his prison camp, Stalag Luft VIII-B

Christmas Letters from a Second World War prison camp

22 Dec 2015

Moving letters sent by the academic John Crook while he was a prisoner at the notorious Stalag Luft VIII-B camp in World War II reveal his...

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Churchill Papers added to UNESCO’s list of the world’s greatest cultural treasures

30 Nov 2015

Winston Churchill’s vast archive – including his wartime speeches, letters to Stalin and three US Presidents – has been added to UNESCO’s...

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Detail from The Kiss of Judas

Reformation ‘recycling’ may have saved rare painting from destruction

27 Nov 2015

A rare medieval painting depicting Judas’ betrayal of Christ may have survived destruction at the hands of 16th century iconoclasts after being ‘...

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Solomon Schechter at work in the old University Library

Solomon Schechter (1847-1915): a Jewish polymath with a gift for friendship

20 Nov 2015

The Jewish scholar Solomon Schechter is best remembered for his work on the Cairo Geniza. A conference this Sunday will explore the wider impact of a...

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General Sir Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem in December 1917. The widely-circulated image of him entering the Old City on foot conjured up images of Christ-like humility in the Bible in a calculated attempt to win over hearts and minds.

A conflict of Biblical proportions: How the Bible was used to turn the First World War into a Holy War

08 Nov 2015

The significance of the Bible in the war, and anti-war efforts, of both Allied and Central powers in the First World War are to be examined in a new...

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Arthur Schnitzler, 1912

Saved from the Nazis in 1938: Schnitzler archive to remain in Cambridge

28 Oct 2015

Saved from destruction by the Nazis and smuggled in secret to Cambridge, the rescue of author Arthur Schnitzler’s archive is as dramatic as any...

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A plan of Mexico City, taken from the 16th-century Civitates orbis terrarum, the world’s first atlas to include city plans

A kingly gift: Royal Library goes on display in Cambridge

02 Oct 2015

An exhibition celebrating King George I’s gift of 30,000 books and manuscripts to Cambridge University Library - including the celebrated 8th-century...

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Detail of one of the triumphal arches built for the entrance of James I to London in March 1603, devised by Stephen Harrison and engraved by William Kip. Photograph by Michael Fleming.

Wondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?

24 Sep 2015

What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Christopher Page’s latest book ‘The...

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Pilgrims at the Masjid al-Haram on Hajj in 2008

Package tour to Mecca? How the Hajj became an essential part of the British calendar

21 Sep 2015

This week, millions of Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj. A new study reveals how, in the age of Empire, the spiritual...

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