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Money worries and job dissatisfaction drove Europe’s populist boom, research suggests

31 Mar 2026

Everyday financial anxieties and frustration with low-quality work – rather than immigration alone – helped populist politics explode across Europe...

Catalan Atlas showing the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea, 1375

Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe

04 Dec 2025

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation...

High voltage electricity towers combined with economic charts

Electricity prices across Europe to stabilise if 2030 targets for renewable energy are met

03 Feb 2025

National targets for solar and wind power will see reliance on natural gas plummet, reducing electricity price volatility across Europe, with major...

Aerial shot of parked trucks, Scunthorpe, United Kingdom

It’s high time for alliances to ensure supply chain security, researchers urge

19 Oct 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the interconnected nature of global supply chains, and showed how a disruption in one part of the world can have...

Left: Cecilia Mascolo, Right: Ismail Sami

Cambridge researchers awarded ERC funding to support commercial potential of their work

02 Aug 2023

University of Cambridge researchers have been awarded Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC), to help them explore the...

Europe-wide political divide emerging between cities and countryside – study

17 Aug 2021

“Geography of disillusion” poses a major challenge for democratic countries across the continent, according to researchers.

Details from artwork commissioned by the University of Cambridge Primary School featuring paintings by the pupils

We are all 'others': teaching children to celebrate differences

23 Nov 2018

As the world around us increasingly divides into ‘us and others’, the University of Cambridge Primary School is taking part in a new research project...

Thatcher papers for 1988 reveal her 'deep enthusiasm' for the single market

21 Jul 2018

Margaret Thatcher’s infamous Bruges speech – which helped to coin the phrase ‘Euroscepticism’ – was never intended to be an anti-European diatribe...

At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding

Cambridge and LMU announce plans for strategic partnership

29 May 2018

Two of Europe’s leading research universities have announced the first step towards plans for a unique ‘strategic partnership’ – underlining the vital...

The Capitulation of Granada by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz 1882: Boabdil surrenders to Ferdinand and Isabella

The last Muslim King in Spain

18 May 2017

The history, myths and legends surrounding the last Muslim ruler in Spain – whose surrender ended seven centuries of Islam at the heart of Western...

Opinion: Macron’s European trap

10 May 2017

Despite its novelty, Emmanuel Macron's election victory in France points to one important continuity, argues Dr Chris Bickerton.

Opinion: Geologists unveil how Britain first separated from Europe – and it was catastrophic

06 Apr 2017

Brexit won't be the first time Britain has left Europe, says Simon Redfern, professor in Earth Sciences at University of Cambridge writing for The...

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Money worries and job dissatisfaction drove Europe’s populist boom, research suggests

Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe

Electricity prices across Europe to stabilise if 2030 targets for renewable energy are met

It’s high time for alliances to ensure supply chain security, researchers urge

Cambridge researchers awarded ERC funding to support commercial potential of their work

Europe-wide political divide emerging between cities and countryside – study

We are all 'others': teaching children to celebrate differences

Thatcher papers for 1988 reveal her 'deep enthusiasm' for the single market

Cambridge and LMU announce plans for strategic partnership

The last Muslim King in Spain

Opinion: Macron’s European trap

Opinion: Geologists unveil how Britain first separated from Europe – and it was catastrophic

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