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Gone to the dogs

25 May 2021

A story of finding unexpected companionship at the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, Chernobyl.

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Britain from the Air: 1945-2009

21 Feb 2019

Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ – have been made freely available online.

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‘Photographing Tutankhamun’ exhibition reveals historical context behind pioneering images

14 Jun 2018

Iconic photography taken during the decade-long excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb has gone on display at Cambridge University’s Museum of...

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One of Sabelo Mlangeni's images going on display at MAA from today

The Longing of Belonging: African photography on show at MAA

13 Jun 2017

A photography exhibition capturing the black South African Zionist community – the most popular religious denomination in the country – opens at the...

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CGLI members visit the exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Museum archive reconnects a London-based Congolese community with its heritage

10 Mar 2017

When Reverend Kenred Smith captured moments of life in the Congo over 120 years ago, he couldn’t have imagined that the photos – now in Cambridge's...

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A head-hunter's skull from Nagaland which was worn on the chest of a Konyak warrior who had captured an enemy head.

Another India exhibition gives voice to India’s most marginalised communities

08 Mar 2017

Hundreds of objects which tell the story of 100 million of India’s most marginalised citizens – its Indigenous and Adivasi people – are to go on...

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Exhibition reunites artworks from Captain Scott’s final expedition – a century on

01 Aug 2016

A new exhibition has reunited the iconic photography of Herbert Ponting with the watercolours of Edward Wilson – more than a century after the two...

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St John's College from the Kitchen Bridge. Photographer: Silas Hope.

Prospective students share their view of Cambridge

28 Apr 2016

Around 350 state school Year 12s and mature learners who took part in Cambridge University Students’ Union’s (CUSU) student-led Shadowing Scheme were...

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Shot in the dark’: the winning image from this year’s engineering photo competition.

Bullet holes and graphene caves: picturing engineering

10 Nov 2015

From a Cambridge guide for robot tourists, to titanium ‘comets’, the winners of the annual Department of Engineering photo competition highlight the...

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A shaman, shamaness and Achinsk Lama with helpers, June 1912. Right: A young boy with his sister, July/August 1912.

Life in the snow forests: 100-year-old photographs reunited with communities

20 Jun 2015

Indigenous people from the snow forests of Inner Mongolia and Siberia have been reunited with century-old photographs of their family and communities...

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Encoffining body, Changchun, 1911

Visions of plague

05 Dec 2014

A new research project is compiling the largest database of plague imagery ever amassed, focusing on a pandemic that peaked in the early 20th century...

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Captain Scott’s 'lost' photographic negatives saved for the nation

31 Mar 2014

The Scott Polar Research Institute’s urgent appeal to save historic Antarctic negatives taken by Captain Scott in 1911 has been successful.

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