Inequality in medieval Cambridge was ‘recorded on the bones’ of its residents
26 Jan 2021Life in medieval Cambridge was toughest for the ordinary workers, according to a study of the “skeletal trauma” found on remains from three different...
Displaced lives: Investigating Europe's handling of the refugee crisis and giving voice to asylum-seeking migrants
30 Nov 2020For the last three years, the RESPOND project has been investigating migration governance in 11 countries by foregrounding the insights of asylum-...
A treasure trove of unseen writing by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney reveals a vital creative friendship
14 Nov 2020A unique archive acquired by Pembroke College Cambridge transforms our understanding of the two poets, showing how they drew career-defining...
The student entrepreneur who interviewed Stormzy about race and privilege
20 Oct 2020Recent graduate and former president of the African and Caribbean Society, Toni Fola-Alade, talks about advocacy, start-ups and fundraising for...
Children’s fiction on terror is leading a youth ‘write-back’ against post-9/11 paranoia
24 Aug 2020A wave of children’s fiction which tackles subjects such as suicide terrorism, militant jihadism and counter-terror violence is helping young readers...
Digital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches back to life
03 Aug 2020Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier Maggiore, 240...
COVID-19 and the interspecies frontier
08 Jul 2020Professor of World History, Sujit Sivasundaram, discusses how our long history with pangolins reveals the preconditions of both the pandemic and...
Syphilitic City: one in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s, study suggests
06 Jul 2020250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had been treated for syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated.
What next for Japan's women?
30 Jun 2020Japan's women are experimenting with new femininities in challenging times, a new book reveals
Professor David Abulafia awarded Wolfson History Prize 2020
16 Jun 2020Abulafia wins for his epic history of humanity’s relationship with the world’s oceans, The Boundless Sea.
The city rises: Cambridge archaeologists reveal an entire Roman city without digging
09 Jun 2020For the first time, a team of archaeologists has succeeded in mapping a complete Roman city, Falerii Novi in Italy, using advanced ground penetrating...
COVID-19: The long view
22 May 2020The COVID-19 pandemic should only present a short-term interruption to 250 years of improving life expectancy, argues historian Leigh Shaw-Taylor.