Eighty years since Victory in Europe Day
07 May 2025 The University of Cambridge celebrates and remembers.
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Forgotten heroes: Study gives voice to China's nationalist WWII veterans
04 Nov 2021 As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary, new research gives voice to the country's still controversial nationalist (KMT) veterans and the volunteers determined to honour them.
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The Channel Islands' victims and survivors of Nazi persecution
24 Jul 2019 A decade of research reveals the harrowing experiences of Channel Islanders persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War.
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How Churchill Waged War
21 Nov 2018A newly-published book by Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood illuminates the agonising decisions faced by the Prime Minister during some of the darkest and most uncertain moments of the Second World War.
Opinion: The Dambusters raid took place 75 years ago – here's how they made a bomb bounce
16 May 2018Hugh Hunt from Cambridge's Department of Engineering - who recreated the Dambusters raid in 2011 - discusses how engineers made a bomb bounce 75 years ago in an article for The Conversation.
Exhibition highlights the untold story of Nazi victims in the Channel Islands
19 Oct 2017The untold stories of slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War will be revealed from today at a new exhibition co-curated by Cambridge’s Dr Gilly Carr.
World War II bombing associated with resilience, not ‘German Angst’
23 Jun 2017Experiencing traumatic events may be associated with greater mental resilience among residents rather than causing widespread angst, suggests a study published this week that investigated the effect of World War II bombing on the mental health of citizens in German cities.
Stolen World War Two letters help author uncover the hidden lives of army wives
09 Sep 2016A stolen chest of letters – penned by an army wife to her husband on the battlefields of the Second World War – has helped a Cambridge academic and biographer trace the history of the women behind the men in uniform.
Christmas Letters from a Second World War prison camp
22 Dec 2015Moving letters sent by the academic John Crook while he was a prisoner at the notorious Stalag Luft VIII-B camp in World War II reveal his indomitable spirit and brave resolve to remain positive for the sake of loved ones back home.
Opinion: Governments should turn to academics for advice on radicalisation, religion and security
03 Dec 2015Tristram Riley-Smith (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses how universities and academics can add insight and depth to national security decisions.