Astrolabe reveals Islamic–Jewish scientific exchange
04 Mar 2024 The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever...
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Spanish butterflies better at regulating their body temperature than their British cousins
09 Jan 2024 Butterfly populations in northern Spain are better than their UK counterparts at regulating their body temperature, but rising global temperatures may...
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Economic activity has halved during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown, study suggests
15 Apr 2020 Almost one and a half billion spending transactions reveal 'real-time' reactions of consumers in a major western economy during the nation’s peak...
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Music and the battle for Granada's past
13 Feb 2019 Concerns over immigration and the rise of the far-right in Spain are fuelling tensions at one of its most important festivals, the Día de la Toma in...
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The man who tried to read all the books in the world
26 Oct 2017 One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed the challenges of ‘big data’ and our...
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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...
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Flamenco: what happens when a grassroots musical genre becomes a marker of culture
18 Aug 2016 What happens when a musical genre becomes an identifier for a region? In his book Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain...
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Read all about it!
08 Mar 2011 A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...
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Cultural heritage after conflict
01 May 2010 A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.
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Outstanding scholars awarded
01 May 2008 Two early-career academics in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages have been recognised by the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
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