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‘Para Ingles ver’ (for the English to see): the other side of the World Cup

05 Jul 2014

Brazilians are famous for their love of football but millions of ordinary people are angry at the huge sums spent on the World Cup. Lucy McMahon, a...

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An interview with Tony Badger: 50 years a historian

04 Jul 2014

The Choir of Clare College will tomorrow (5 July 2014) perform a special concert at West Road as tribute to outgoing Master and eminent historian...

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Black Power in Britain becoming “forgotten history”

05 Jan 2014

A new biography of Darcus Howe, which offers the first detailed history of Britain’s little-known Black Power movement, claims that the racism it...

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Dr Pete Wothers giving a chemistry demonstration to an audience at the Cambridge Science Festival including David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science.

Twenty top tips for interpreting scientific claims

21 Nov 2013

Aiming to improve policy-makers’ understanding of the imperfect nature of science, academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Melbourne have...

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Bernard Ingham's note of warning to Margaret Thatcher two days before the 1983 General Election

Inside the landslide: Thatcher's personal papers for 1983 opened to the public

10 Oct 2013

Margaret Thatcher’s personal papers for 1983 – the year of her landslide election victory over Michael Foot’s Labour Party – have been opened to the...

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Reporting from Zimbabwe: why the sanctions must be lifted

24 Aug 2013

The Zimbabwean elections will quickly drop off the international news agenda. In her third and final report, anthropology student Rowan Jones ponders...

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Reporting from Zimbabwe: a visit to Harare’s biggest township

17 Aug 2013

In the township of Mbare, anthropology student Rowan Jones finds a complex picture of poverty and propaganda - plus a baffling level of support for...

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Inna Shevchenko of Femen

“Nudity does not liberate me and I do not need saving”

26 Jul 2013

When radical feminists took their cause from Europe to North Africa, the outcome was a deepening of the divides they sought to break down. Social...

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After landing at San Carlos, a heavily laden paratrooper of 2 Parachute Regiment heads south for Sussex Mountain on 21 May 1982. From there the Battalion attacked Goose Green.

Thatcher Archive reveals deep divisions on the road to Falklands War

22 Mar 2013

The Falklands War – the conflict that defined much of Margaret Thatcher’s political career and legacy – dominates the release of her personal papers...

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Cartoon produced as state propaganda in China during the 1950s

Out of the ashes of Empire

12 Feb 2013

The new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan’s Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again...

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MYPs debate in House of Commons Chamber

Mastering public policy

29 Nov 2012

A new Master’s Programme in Public Policy, launching today by the University of Cambridge, will equip policy makers of tomorrow with the tools to...

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Chinese frontier guard at the Manzhouli-Zabaikalsk border

The life of borders: where China and Russia meet

06 Nov 2012

A new project based in Cambridge’s Division of Social Anthropology is looking at interactions between China, Mongolia and Russia at the point where...

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