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War memorial on Hills Road, Cambridge

How will we remember them?

10 Nov 2011

As we approach Remembrance Day, a Cambridge University project that looks at the role of memorials in conflict-torn communities is drawing to a close...

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Detail from a front cover of "The Blimp", 1917.

‘Picture This #3’ – 'The Blimp', Christ's College.

24 Aug 2011

‘The Blimp’ is one of the items telling the story of Christ’s College during the First World War.

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A DC4 drops a bouncing bomb in the reconstructed Dambusters operation.

Bombs away: The Dambusters bounce back

30 Apr 2011

The daring Dambusters raid of World War II, in which RAF pilots famously used a bouncing bomb to breach two German dams, has been recreated by a...

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Voters at the southern Sudan referendum

Research on the front line

11 Mar 2011

An ambitious project with global reach seeks to address the most difficult and persistent internal conflicts – struggles for ethnic identity and...

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Case de Juntas, Gernika

Cultural heritage after conflict

01 May 2010

A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.

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'Memory wars' of Eastern Europe

01 Apr 2010

A €1 million study will shed light on the role of cultural memory of the soviet era in Russia, Ukraine and Poland.

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Warsaw Uprising Memorial

Polish cinema in the frame

01 Jan 2010

Cinema was a central means of cultural expression in post-war Poland. Dr Matilda Mroz is asking how and why.

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