Ukraine needs solidarity not ‘Crimnesia'
22 Feb 2022Cambridge's associate professor of Ukrainian studies places the country's current crisis in historical and regional context, offering chilling...
Virgil has the edge on Shakespeare in helping students to love literature
14 Feb 2022Students who study Virgil’s Aeneid at school find it significantly more engaging than other ‘high-prestige’ literature, even though they only learn...
Musical preferences unite personalities across the globe
10 Feb 2022Research involving more than 350,000 participants from six continents has found that links between musical preferences and personality are universal...
Map discovery: American ‘hero’ plotted massive land grab and broke peace treaty
07 Feb 2022A newly decoded map shows that the famous explorer William Clark planned the theft of 10.5 million acres of Indigenous land in Missouri, USA in the...
Fighting for the rights of football fans
02 Feb 2022How a Cambridge researcher fought for the rights of football fans and won.
Samurai: History and Legend
21 Jan 2022Treasures from one of the world’s most important collections of Japanese literature will go on public display for the first time at Cambridge...
Not so 'swinging sixties' revealed by study of UK's first sexual health clinics
20 Jan 2022Young people behaving responsibly in the 1960s helped to defeat fierce opposition to the UK’s first sexual health clinics, the Brook Advisory Centres...
Samurai, Darwin, the Poet Laureate and some very Curious Cures
13 Jan 2022A year of wonder in store at Cambridge University Library during 2022.
The Lost Words: a ‘spell book’ that closes the gap between childhood and nature
01 Jan 2022The Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural...
Reinterpreting Newton and religion
21 Dec 2021Rediscovered notebook adds new depth to our understanding of Isaac Newton's relationship with theology.
The philosopher who wants us to think deeply about ordinary things
15 Dec 2021Nikhil Krishnan, winner of a 2021 Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching, says that what he loves about teaching is what he loves about philosophy...
Evidence of a Roman crucifixion found in Cambridgeshire
08 Dec 2021The finding in the village of Fenstanton is the only known example of a Roman crucifixion anywhere in the British Isles, and perhaps the best...