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Child No.98 in the Fitzwilliam Museum's exhibition Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish

Looking at artificial others: mannequins with x-ray vision

24 Oct 2014

The fascinating results of CT scans performed by the radiology team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital on two mannequins from the 18th and 19th centuries...

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Festival of Ideas

Largest ever Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches on Monday

17 Oct 2014

The largest ever Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches on Monday with 250 events celebrating the very best of arts, politics and culture.

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Bridget Christie

Celebrate thought at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

22 Sep 2014

Bookings open today for this year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas, now in its seventh year and bigger and better than ever. The Festival, which runs...

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Thought-provoking debates on contested identities lead Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014

08 Jul 2014

Cyberbullying, climate conspiracies, gender politics and how to teach history are just a few of the important and contentious topics covered in this...

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Steel Dust: Young and Old

We ask the experts: does society really care about the old and the vulnerable?

28 Oct 2013

On November 1 Melvyn Bragg will talk about his book Grace and Mary at the Festival of Ideas. The novel is based on Bragg’s own bitter-sweet...

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Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches with over 200 events

22 Oct 2013

Debates about the welfare cuts, David Beckham's philosophical awakening, the future of literature and quotas for women business leaders head the...

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Why do we read (and write) novels?

14 Oct 2013

On the eve of the Man Booker prize, our insatiable appetite for fiction (and fascination with those who create it) comes sharply into focus...

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Activity at the Festival of Ideas

Crossing frontiers at Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2013

04 Jul 2013

Do rappers make better lyricists than poets? Is there an alternative to austerity? Is Europe in terminal decline? What is the impact of conspiracy...

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Catch some Hay fever online

04 Jun 2013

Eight of the talks from the Cambridge Series from this year’s Hay Festival are now available for users to stream or download online.

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Crime and punishment: a 19th-century love affair

30 Apr 2013

The violence of everyday life in 19th-century Europe – including murder most foul, handsome bandits, wicked women and huge crowds at executions – is...

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Graphic from mypersonality app

Digital records could expose intimate details and personality traits of millions

11 Mar 2013

Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital...

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Women on a bench

Tick, tick, tick: the demographic time bomb

03 Nov 2012

By 2032 a quarter of the British population will be over the age of 65. On November 3, a panel of economists, businessmen and social scientists will...

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