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Robert Tait McKenzie, Plaster cast of Sprinter (1902) © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Paris 1924 exhibition at The Fitzwilliam: Beyond Chariots of Fire

09 Jul 2024

The 1924 Paris Olympics stars in a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition exploring the sport, art and bodies behind a pivotal Games. Exhibits speak of...

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First edition crime novels on display at exhibition.

Murder by the Book: a celebration of 20th century British crime fiction

22 Mar 2024

Priceless first editions and Agatha Christie artefacts on display at Cambridge University Library.

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Spitting Image: A Controversial History

29 Sep 2023

A free exhibition unravelling the history and legacy of the satirical puppet show has opened at Cambridge University Library

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Not so 'swinging sixties' revealed by study of UK's first sexual health clinics

20 Jan 2022

Young people behaving responsibly in the 1960s helped to defeat fierce opposition to the UK’s first sexual health clinics, the Brook Advisory Centres...

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Saving Turkey's Children

12 Jun 2020

Exiled by Hitler, Albert Eckstein turned his medical expertise to saving Turkey's poorest children from the curse of infant mortality.

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Dr James Riley

Did the Sixties dream die in 1969?

01 Nov 2019

The year 1969 is held up as the end of an era, but fifty years on are we still buying into a dangerous myth? Counterculture expert James Riley delves...

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Secret recordings reveal the sexual struggles of Fifties Britain

16 Apr 2019

A new study of pioneering counselling sessions explores how women sought to overcome sexual difficulties at a pivotal moment in Britain’s sex history.

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Spitting Image archive comes to Cambridge University Library

14 Nov 2018

A Margaret Thatcher puppet and the unbroadcast script and video tape for the pilot episode of Spitting Image have taken their place alongside the...

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Ben Nicholson, 1928 (Banks Head – Cumbrian Landscape).

Kettle’s Yard on the move to celebrate 50th anniversary

22 Oct 2016

Works by some of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries – including Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, LS Lowry and Helen Frankenthaler – are...

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Liquid Crystal Environment, Gustav Metzger

Art, science and social responsibility in 1960s Britain

22 Jul 2014

The relationships between art, science and society in the 1960s will be examined by Kettle’s Yard this Saturday.

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Schooner and Icebergs (c.1928)

Kettle's Yard international exhibition "Art & Life 1920-1931"

10 Feb 2014

A major international exhibition of work from two of the UK’s most important 20th Century painters, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, starts on Saturday 15...

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Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble deposits archive in University Library

11 Oct 2012

Leading author Dame Margaret Drabble has deposited her literary archive in Cambridge University Library.

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