In the fourth of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, historian Dr Gabriela Ramos travels to a village high in the Andes to...
A digital resource dedicated to Simon Forman, the notorious, self-styled astrologer-physician, later dubbed the 'Elizabethan Pepys', has been...
The imperial treasures of the Hapsburgs – including Miseroni’s lost Royal masterpiece – have gone on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
In the first of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 12th-century Bury Bible from the Parker...
With the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, providing one of the star turns on the first day of this year's Hay Festival, God was...
A new study by a Cambridge University criminologist reveals just how dangerous it was to be a monarch in Europe before the modern era.
Art historian Professor Paul Binski describes his ventures into the gold-embellished world of illuminated manuscripts.
Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an...
It may look peaceful today, but Newnham College, Cambridge was once the site of a sprawling Roman settlement.
Mathematical research in Cambridge has a breadth that extends from the purest of theory to the most practical of applications.
The French passion for high standards of linguistic correctness comes under scrutiny this week at a special conference dedicated to “Le Bon Usage...
Tracing popular beliefs from medieval to early modern times is highlighting the durability of debates about the dead.
