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Hugh in the recreated tunnel at Zagan

Recreating ‘The Great Escape’

28 Nov 2011

First it was the Dambusters raid, now Cambridge University’s Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘The Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag...

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Max Born

Born identity revealed in newly-opened archive

07 Oct 2011

A Nobel Prize Medal, a postcard from Einstein and a Hitler-stamped letter of expulsion are among a fascinating archive of documents and other...

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Marriage inventory, Württemberg, 1682

300 years of list-making

20 May 2011

Personal inventories spanning three centuries are helping researchers unlock the mysteries of how economies edge towards growth and prosperity.

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Pitt-Rivers' own photo of Hitler from the Nuremberg Rally

Forgotten archive shines new light on turbulent 1930s

19 May 2011

Previously unseen photos of Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally of 1937 have been uncovered by a Cambridge PhD student in the archive of George Henry...

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A portrait of Augusta of Saxony-Gotha from the time of her wedding in 1736

The Royal Wedding… of 1736

27 Apr 2011

For those at the heart of this week's Royal Wedding, the big day will be full of stress and worry. But that's nothing compared with the experiences...

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Happy Germany fans

Germans top table of happiest tweets

02 Apr 2011

Germany is the happiest country in the world, according to a happiness map based on Twitter users.

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St Peter Port harbour

Cambridge Ideas - Forgotten Heroes

31 Mar 2011

A Cambridge University archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the...

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The Cap Arcona ocean liner, used by the Hamburg-South America line until World War II

Germany in a global context

29 Mar 2011

A new perspective on German history is changing the way in which we see the country's present, as well as its past.

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Senate House

Academics to join British Academy Fellowship

23 Jul 2010

The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the...

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Best ever snapshot of Black Hole's jets

That's funny

02 Jun 2010

Paul Murdin from the Institute of Astronomy put a human face to the names behind some of the greatest discoveries to have taken place in our efforts...

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Case de Juntas, Gernika

Cultural heritage after conflict

01 May 2010

A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.

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1972 Munich Olympic Stadium

The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

01 May 2010

A new analysis of the Munich Games of 1972 places the event at the very centre of modern German history, as Dr Chris Young explains.

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