A new study into the grim and frequently heart-breaking history of childhood sickness and death has opened a window on to a surprisingly tender world of close families and devoted parenting in early modern England.
The humanities have been quick to embrace the potential of computer technology but universities have been reluctant to accept digital projects as bona fide scholarship. Katy Barrett, a PhD student at Cambridge's Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, argues for a change in attitude.
Dr Hannah Newton, an historian of science with an interest in how previous generations coped with childhood illness, digs up some 17th century tips for making medicine taste better and finds evidence for common sense and compassion among the doctors of the day.
The genuine scientific benefits that have emerged from the modern Olympic Games have often been lost in the hype surrounding these high profile international events. Dr Vanessa Heggie, a Teaching Associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, puts the record straight.
In the recent riots looters made off with some of the items that have come to symbolise our materialistic society - trainers, track suits and flat screen televisions. Katy Barrett, who is doing a PhD in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, is co-convening a series of seminars which will look at the powerful role that possessions play in society, past and present.
Interdisciplinary research has to be the answer when it comes to understanding the Victorians, writes Professor Simon Goldhill, one of the researchers involved in a £1.2 million project on Victorian Britain that is reaching the end of its five-year programme.
A digital resource dedicated to Simon Forman, the notorious, self-styled astrologer-physician, later dubbed the "Elizabethan Pepys", has been launched to mark the 400th anniversary of his death.
An international conference taking place at Cambridge University later this week will reveal that for many centuries alchemy and medicine were deeply intertwined - both in theory and practice.
The history of human reproduction - via its communication through the ages - is examined in a ground-breaking exhibition opening this week at Cambridge University Library.
Examples of the world's oldest science and literature - 2,500-year-old clay writing tablets - hold clues as to how ancient scholars acquired and used knowledge, as Dr Eleanor Robson explains.
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