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Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

Great handbags - but what about the politics?

28 Jan 2012

Audiences are spellbound by Meryl Streep’s performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. As a PhD student looking at British politics in the...

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Rio Anarkia

International Relations student awarded MBE

09 Jan 2012

A student on the Master of Studies in International Relations course, Damian Platt, has been awarded the MBE for his work in the favelas, or...

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Waiting for the dinner fires to be lit

'Extreme Sleepover #9’ - waiting for sunrise in the Congo

30 Dec 2011

In the ninth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, historian Catherine Porter visits the Democratic Republic of Congo to...

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Newspapers the day after the coalition.

Politics and the future of the media under the spotlight in policy seminars

27 Oct 2011

British politics, the media, and the deep distrust with which both are being treated following the phone-hacking scandal will form the subject of the...

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The Politics of Speechmaking at the Festival of Ideas

The politics of speechmaking

24 Oct 2011

Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political...

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Standing ovation

What makes a great political speech?

27 Sep 2011

Cambridge Festival of Ideas debate to examine the changing nature of political speeches.

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Handbag owned by Baroness Thatcher (THCR 9/1/1)

'Picture This #5' - Baroness Thatcher's handbag, Churchill Archive Centre.

14 Sep 2011

Belonging to a woman in a man's world there was intense curiosity and speculation about the contents of the Thatcher handbag.

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Tea Party protest against President Obama's healthcare reforms

Healthcare - from post-communism to Obama

23 Jun 2011

The fierce opposition to President Obama’s healthcare policy in the US and the challenges facing health reformists in post-communist Europe are to be...

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Flag of the United Nations.

Global politics on the agenda at Hay

22 May 2011

Ahead of her talk at the Hay Festival, Dr Amrita Narlikar, Director of the University of Cambridge's new Centre for Rising Powers, discusses how...

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United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Power in the balance

11 May 2011

A new research hub dedicated to the study of emerging powers and how different nations evolve to become leading political forces on the world stage...

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A screengrab of Barack Obama's typical Facebook fan from LikeAudience.

With friends like these…

22 Apr 2011

Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to...

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Leigong's Handbook c. 1590s

Chinese food for thought

31 Mar 2011

Chinese food contains a hidden recipe for living, a new analysis reveals.

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