Do not try this at home: Medieval medicine under the spotlight in major new project
17 Aug 2022How did our medieval ancestors use dove faeces, fox lungs, salted owl or eel grease in medical treatments? A Wellcome-funded project at Cambridge...
Cambridge to return Benin artefacts
29 Jul 2022The University is supporting a claim for the return to Nigeria of 116 objects, currently held in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, that...
Cambridge Creative Encounters exhibition goes on display at Cambridge Central Library
25 Jul 2022Cambridge Creative Encounters exhibition, a unique project of artistic creations that showcase some of the world’s burning research questions in...
Book of Deer on display in Scotland
12 Jul 2022Scotland’s oldest surviving manuscript goes on display at Aberdeen Art Gallery
New Cambridge Latin course reflects diversity of the Roman world
11 Jul 2022The latest edition of the leading Latin course has been designed to more accurately depict the roles of women, minorities and enslaved people in the...
Returned ‘Tree of Life’ notebooks go on display
08 Jul 2022‘Darwin in Conversation’ reveals how the famed naturalist’s global network of correspondents shaped his ideas around the evolution of life on planet...
The photographer sharing the secrets of rare manuscripts
05 Jul 2022When Amélie Deblauwe cycled to work on 21 June 2019 she had no idea that by lunchtime she’d be in A&E and not leave the hospital for five weeks...
Devil-Land by Dr Clare Jackson wins the Wolfson History Prize 2022
23 Jun 2022A book about Britain’s tumultuous seventeenth century by Cambridge historian Dr Clare Jackson has triumphed in one of the most prestigious prizes for...
Canterbury suburbs were home to some of Britain’s earliest humans
22 Jun 2022Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, England, confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and...
Cambridge pop-up experience explores the Faustian pacts we make with digital tech
13 Jun 2022FAUST SHOP, a pop-up installation and performance in Cambridge asks visitors to think about their daily interactions with digital technology. And...
“Write fewer papers, take more risks”: researchers call for ‘rebellion’
06 Jun 2022A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship, arguing that...
Discarded history: Cairo Genizah treasures
31 May 2022How the discovery and study of ancient deeds, fables, letters, magical amulets, contracts and lists in a sacred storeroom created unparalleled...