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The Wall behind the Reichstag, (East) Berlin, Germany (1989/312)

Opinion: Skinnydipping, spies and shortages: Deutschland 83 brilliantly evokes life in East Germany

21 Jan 2016

Henning Grunwald (Faculty of History) discusses how accurate the representation of life in Cold War era East Germany is in Channel 4 drama...

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Screen grab of one of the app's questions

Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent

11 Jan 2016

A new app which tries to guess your regional accent based on your pronunciation of 26 words and colloquialisms will help Cambridge academics track...

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Literature of the Liberation: Cambridge exhibition a world first

06 May 2014

Seventy years after Hitler’s soldiers were driven from Paris, Cambridge University Library is staging the first-ever exhibition to examine the...

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Soul seller: the man who moved people

20 Feb 2014

People trafficking is a billion-dollar business with a history that spans centuries. A new study identifies the beginnings of the modern trafficker...

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Euro bank notes and coins

Sleepwalking into the Euro nightmare

09 Nov 2013

Eurozone countries are still careering towards a financial and social ‘nightmare’ of their own making according to a leading academic speaking at...

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The first book of fashion

01 May 2013

Fashion conveys complex messages. The recreation of an outfit taken from one of an extraordinary series of Renaissance portraits reveals how one man...

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, one of the leading figures in the German Idealist movement.

The Impact of Idealism

06 Sep 2012

German Idealism changed the world and influenced politics, science, art and numerous other fields. The ways in which it shaped the modern world have...

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Leaf from a Kaiserchronik Manuscript.

A medieval “Chronicle of Emperors” for the twenty-first century

24 Jul 2012

The 12th-century German “Chronicle of the Emperors” (Kaiserchronik) – widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important literary works of the...

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Hollande

Can Hollande live up to expectations?

18 May 2012

As Francois Hollande takes up his seat as President of France, will he be able to live up to the huge expectations of those who voted for him or will...

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Erich Honecker, leader of the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until 1989. The film follows not only his demise as head of state, but the story of what happened next.

The End Of Honecker

17 May 2012

A film about the downfall of the East German head of state, Erich Honecker, which includes an astonishing interview with his apparently unrepentant...

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An extract from the original psychoanalysis.

Inside Hitler’s mind

04 May 2012

A secret report, previously unknown to historians, shows how British Intelligence was tracking Hitler’s growing preoccupation with “the enemy within...

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Detail of a map of the Holy Roman Empire, 1492 - 1618.

Kaiser, Reich and the making of modern Germany

01 Dec 2011

Europe is in crisis and its future is said to depend on Germany. The most comprehensive study of Germany's early modern history ever undertaken...

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