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A jet engine turbine blade.

From atoms to jet engines – extreme materials on display at summer exhibition

30 Jun 2015

At any one time over half a million people are flying far above our heads in modern aircraft. Their lives depend on the performance of the special...

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A shaman, shamaness and Achinsk Lama with helpers, June 1912. Right: A young boy with his sister, July/August 1912.

Life in the snow forests: 100-year-old photographs reunited with communities

20 Jun 2015

Indigenous people from the snow forests of Inner Mongolia and Siberia have been reunited with century-old photographs of their family and communities...

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Image from the Boy's book of British battles

Waterloo: the first draft of history

30 Apr 2015

A letter written from the body-strewn battlefield at Waterloo, an invasion map of the UK, and a book from Napoleon’s personal library in exile will...

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Folding ‘Trompe l’oeil’ fan, English, c.1750

How we fell in love with shopping

20 Mar 2015

An exhibition of ‘treasured possessions’ from the 15th to the 18th centuries reveals how we first fell in love with shopping, and takes us back to an...

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Catameringue by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Kettle's Yard new exhibition: Beauty and Revolution

03 Dec 2014

A new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard celebrating the work of the Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) opens this Saturday (6...

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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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 José María Sert (1874–1945), Photographic study for The Triumphs of Humanity, 1937  Gelatin silver print, with highlights in black pastel squared up, 240 x 300 mm, Private Collection

Secret lives of the mannequin revealed at the Fitzwilliam Museum

14 Oct 2014

Life-size mannequins, dolls and over 180 remarkable artworks from collections across the world will be going on display in Cambridge today (14...

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Production still from 'Jaywick Escapes', a film by Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope

Curating Cambridge: Kettle's Yard autumn season

17 Sep 2014

This autumn Kettle’s Yard hosts four varied and inspiring exhibitions - Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie take over the main gallery with the first major...

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Liquid Crystal Environment

New Kettle's Yard exhibition: Gustav Metzger: LIFT OFF!

23 May 2014

Bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations, an ambitious new exhibition at Kettle's Yard will submerse visitors in Gustav Metzger’s...

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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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Image from a 14th century manuscript of the Romance of the rose, one of the best-known texts of the Middle Ages

Conquering a continent: how the French language circulated in Britain and medieval Europe

22 Jan 2014

A 13th-century manuscript of Arthurian legend once owned by the Knights Templar is one of the star attractions of a new exhibition opening today at...

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Primitive art, modernism, philosophy, literature – an insight into the life of Victor Skipp

22 Nov 2013

An exhibition based on the collection of Victor Skipp, a local historian whose art hoard contained everything from 18th century Mughal miniatures to...

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