17th century

University of Cambridge linguists have pieced together the curious evolving history of the word 'not' across the languages of Europe. In doing so...

A public lecture at Cambridge University today (March 2) will explore the role of storytelling in narratives that address global history.

This image of a bear hunt is taken from one of three remarkable wall paintings in the Murals Room at Madingley Hall.

Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence has achieved record-breaking attendance figures at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, with more than 130,000...

The Lacemaker, one of the great masterpieces of the 17th-century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer, is to go on display in the UK for the first time as...

A digital resource dedicated to Simon Forman, the notorious, self-styled astrologer-physician, later dubbed the 'Elizabethan Pepys', has been...

Thoroughbred racehorses have typically been associated with the highly-prized breeds of the Arabian Peninsula; but according to new research, their...

It may look peaceful today, but Newnham College, Cambridge was once the site of a sprawling Roman settlement.