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Ancient Greek writing

Greek Grammar to fill the gap

27 May 2009

A new Grammar will be the first comprehensive description of the medieval and early modern Greek language.

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Model embryo making

Making visible embryos

04 Jan 2009

A new online exhibition explores the visual culture of embryology as part of a research initiative on the history of reproduction.

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freezeframe

Freeze Frame: through the eyes of the polar explorers

01 Jan 2009

An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.

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Ski jump, Alfred Hugh Fisher, 1867-1945

Digital Cambridge takes off

01 May 2008

Are you keen to make your research more widely visible or store and preserve your digital material?

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Cinema

Celebrating cinema, from 1895 to the digital age

01 May 2008

Why have writers been so fascinated by cinema? What role might this 19th-century invention play in the digital age?

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Winsor and Newton catalogue with painted samples

Gems of colour: pigments of the ‘Colourmen’

08 Feb 2008

Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers...

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A version of Shahnama: a battle between Iran and Turan

Bringing together the Book of Kings

08 Feb 2008

The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.

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Dictionary

Defining words

01 Sep 2007

Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries...

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Duke of Buckingham’s Letter to the University of Cambridge, 1626

Opening the treasure chest

01 Oct 2006

Cambridge is leading the way in Resource Enhancement projects in the UK, opening up its unique and valuable collections to scholars worldwide, as...

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