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Field of Wheat in Albania

Prehistoric migrants spread farming in Europe

04 Sep 2009

Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.

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Free tape measure waistline healthy living stock

EU funding boost for obesity research

18 May 2009

A new European research consortium, in which Cambridge will play a major role, is to receive 3 million Euros to conduct research into the escalating...

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Men Shopping for Clothing Accessories

Fashioning the value chain

01 Jan 2009

Changes in the clothing industry have fashioned a new look for how manufacturing and retail is managed globally.

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Stacking practice bombs

Gender equality on the slide?

06 Aug 2008

Support for gender equality in Britain and the US appears to have peaked and could now be going into decline, research at Cambridge University has...

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Members of the European Legal Development Project

Finding fault

01 Feb 2008

A multicentre project led by the Faculty of Law has reached its conclusion, having studied over a century's worth of European legal changes relating...

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Artefact

A campaign of silent resistance

01 Feb 2008

A fascinating study of wartime artefacts is uncovering a story of symbolic resistance and creative necessity in the Channel Islands 60 years ago.

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Seymour Tower, Jersey

Pieces de Resistance: The tacit defiance of the Channel Islands

09 May 2007

Cambridge University study charts the symbolic resistance of the Channel Islanders during the occupation of World War II.

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Freud letter

Schnitzler’s hidden manuscripts explored

01 Apr 2007

Research into more than 30,000 unpublished drafts and letters casts new light on the inspirational Austrian novelist and playwright.

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Winston Churchill

Churchill borrowed some of his biggest ideas from HG Wells

27 Nov 2006

Winston Churchill was a “closet science-fiction fan” who borrowed the lines for one of his most famous speeches from H. G. Wells, a Cambridge...

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Clubs pay the price: report shows luck determines football managers' tenure

13 Jul 2006

This was Sven Goran Eriksson's last World Cup as England manager, but according to a recent Cambridge study, his next job may not be based on his...

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