Arts and humanities

John Milton and a page from Holinshed's Chronicles preserving Milton's censorship of a lewd anecdote

John Milton's notes identified in an influential book he once owned

15 May 2024

John Milton’s handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles , a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost...

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Kyle Hutchinson and Jess Burton.

Teacher wins award for encouraging pupil

14 May 2024

Teacher wins Educator's Award for encouraging pupil to apply for Foundation Year.

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Rhododendron brookianum type specimen from the University of Cambridge Herbarium

Collections-based research and innovation receives vital investment from Research England

09 Apr 2024

Research England has supported nine of the University’s museums and collections with £3m a year of Higher Education Museums, Galleries and...

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Prof. Rory Naismith holding a silver Byzantine coin in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Photo: Adam Page

An early medieval money mystery is solved

09 Apr 2024

Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in...

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Britain industrialised much earlier than history books claim

05 Apr 2024

Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s – suggesting the...

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Professor Ioanna Sitaridou (right) with a 100 year-old Romeyka speaker in Turkey's Trabzon region.

Last chance to record archaic Greek language ‘heading for extinction’

03 Apr 2024

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language...

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People doing yoga together outdoors in Richmond USA in 2015

Reclaim ‘wellness’ from the rich and famous, and restore its political radicalism, new book argues

28 Mar 2024

A new cultural history of the 1970s wellness industry offers urgent lessons for today. It reveals that in the seventies, wellness was neither...

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet

25 Mar 2024

George the Poet is a spoken word performer whose innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and a...

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First edition crime novels on display at exhibition.

Murder by the Book: a celebration of 20th century British crime fiction

22 Mar 2024

Priceless first editions and Agatha Christie artefacts on display at Cambridge University Library.

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Cambridge ReseARch Trail

14 Mar 2024

A new augmented reality trail, launched as part of the Cambridge Festival, is showcasing the world leading research of the University of Cambridge in...

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Romani storytelling, amazing animals and science fun for all: A feast of family fun at the Cambridge Festival 2024

05 Mar 2024

The Cambridge Festival family weekend is back on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March. Taking place across the New Museums Site in the centre of Cambridge...

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Time, crime and how can the arts interact with a Natural World in decline?

04 Mar 2024

Each year the Cambridge Festival’s (13-28 March 2024) rich programme of events celebrates the arts across the city and this year is no exception.

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