The codemakers
24 Jan 2025The 2025 Darwin Lecture series looks at codes, be they computational, mathematical, biological, linguistic or even musical.
Brits still associate working-class accents with criminal behaviour – study warns of bias in the criminal justice system
17 Jan 2025People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as...
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
23 Dec 2024It’s a key feature of a school nativity play, but what’s the science behind the Star of Bethlehem?
Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections
08 Dec 2024'Fault Lines', a new exhibition at MAA, offers an intimate exploration of Pacific cultures guided by Indigenous curators and contemporary artists...
Professor Joya Chatterji awarded Wolfson History Prize 2024
03 Dec 2024Chatterji wins for Shadows at Noon , her genre-defying history of South Asia during the 20th century.
Report highlights University’s under-researched African collections
03 Dec 2024The University's collections include an estimated 350,000 artefacts, alongside natural history specimens and human/ancestral remains, from Africa...
Marking a milestone in English language exams
02 Dec 2024100 million Cambridge English exams and tests have been taken around the world since 1913, according to figures from Cambridge University Press...
Spread the word!
18 Nov 2024Dr Mark Wormald helps launch Elemental Poetry Cambridge – a new project to get the city writing.
Military musicians returning from Napoleonic wars invented Britain’s brass bands
30 Oct 2024Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought, Dr Eamonn O'Keeffe has...
Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
03 Oct 2024A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England’s most vulnerable children while battling their...
Endless Stories at Cambridge University Library
26 Sep 2024Centuries-old Asian and African manuscripts go on display for the first time
The Jungle Book proofs come to Cambridge
05 Sep 2024'Exceptional accumulation of manuscripts and proofs' have a new home at Cambridge University Library