literature

Robert Macfarlane to challenge humanity’s ‘superiority complex’ in BBC Reith Lectures

09 Sep 2026

Cambridge’s Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities, Robert Macfarlane, will contribute to BBC Radio 4’s highly prestigious series of...

Half of UK novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely

20 Nov 2025

A new report involving hundreds of literary creatives from across the UK fiction publishing industry reveals fears over copyright violation, lost...

Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge University Library

23 Feb 2024

Beloved poetry project archive contains letters from Nobel Prize winners and Poet Laureates

World's oldest Korean Bibles at Cambridge University Library

23 May 2019

The library is home to one of the most significant collections of early Korean bibles anywhere in the world.

Cambridge University Library stages first public play in its 600-year history

01 May 2019

Performance marked the launch of digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler's works and archive.

State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin

25 Apr 2019

Towards the end of the 1960s, rumours began to spread that nonconformist citizens of the USSR were being diagnosed with mental illnesses and confined...

Arthur Schnitzler Digital Edition

01 Apr 2019

Arthur Schnitzler digital: Digital Critical Edition (Works from 1905 to 1931

The Lost Words: inspiring children to love and protect nature

30 Nov 2018

The 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...

Cambridge ceremony reveals the winners of BBC Short Story and Young Writers’ Awards

02 Oct 2018

Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud, has won the thirteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University for ‘The Sweet Sop’, her first...

literature

Robert Macfarlane to challenge humanity’s ‘superiority complex’ in BBC Reith Lectures

Half of UK novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely

Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge University Library

World's oldest Korean Bibles at Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library stages first public play in its 600-year history

State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin

Arthur Schnitzler Digital Edition

The Lost Words: inspiring children to love and protect nature

Cambridge ceremony reveals the winners of BBC Short Story and Young Writers’ Awards

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