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Charting the Rise and Decline of the Gothic Cathedral
A comprehensive exploration into Gothic cathedrals and their place in medieval society will be the focus of a series of Cambridge University Slade Lectures in Fine Art entitled The Gothic Cathedral: A New Heaven and a New Earth.
Reassessing the industrial revolution
It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower – but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution masks another side of its legacy, a new history suggests.
Academics to join British Academy Fellowship
The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
Cultural heritage after conflict
A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.
Le bon usage: using French correctly
The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons behind this national preoccupation.
Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes
Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants, but despised by noblemen, during the Middle Ages was the mother of many of today's greatest grape varieties, including the Chardonnay used in Champagne.
Britain’s island heritage: half a million years of history
The latest installment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
Greeks uncorked French passion for wine
Professor Paul Cartledge finds that the Greeks, a people rarely known for their wine-making skills, nevertheless laid the foundations for the European wine trade.