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Two new Climate Change Master's programmes launched at Cambridge

30 Oct 2019

The University of Cambridge is launching two new climate-focused graduate programmes, exploring the past and potential futures of the interaction...

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Sea Change

22 Mar 2019

The coast is an intrinsic part of British identity – and perhaps nowhere is it more at risk than in the East of England. Cambridge researchers are...

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Britain from the Air: 1945-2009

21 Feb 2019

Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ – have been made freely available online.

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Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child mortality during Victorian era

15 May 2018

A new interactive online atlas, which illustrates when, where and possibly how fertility rates began to fall in England and Wales during the...

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The Parrot Hotel, Liverpool, 1908

The capital of drinking: did 19th-century Liverpool deserve its reputation?

04 Jul 2017

In his new book, geographer David Beckingham looks at the rigorous licencing regime that Liverpool’s authorities put in place to tighten their grip...

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Fossilised tree and ice cores help date huge volcanic eruption 1,000 years ago to within three months

24 Jan 2017

An international team of researchers has managed to pinpoint, to within three months, a medieval volcanic eruption in east Asia the precise date of...

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The Tibetan lama who wrote a world geography

14 Jun 2014

A study by Tibetan scholar Lobsang Yongdan revisits a long-ignored section of a historic text to reveal how Tibetans were engaging with western...

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Retribution and restoration: Bosnia on trial

15 Feb 2013

Twenty years after Bosnia was devastated by civil war, ordinary people who witnessed, or were the targets of horrific war crimes, are still not...

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Mudflat and marsh at Abbots Hall, Essex

After the flood: harnessing the power of mud

31 Jan 2013

On the 60th Anniversary of the ‘big flood’ that devastated the coastline of eastern England, new research shows that integrating ‘natural’ sea...

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Rice sacks

Give and take: the changing landscape of world aid

05 Oct 2012

A book by Cambridge University geographer Dr Emma Mawdsley provides a major analysis of the ways in which the ‘rising powers’ of the BRICS and others...

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Sarah Radcliffe

‘Extreme Sleepover #3’ – gathering the views of indigenous women in rural Ecuador

24 Dec 2011

In the third of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, geographer Dr Sarah Radcliffe describes her work with women from...

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Volcanic Eruption.

Ash clouds? You ain't seen nothing yet...

13 Jun 2011

The recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland upset airline bosses and caused a lot of fuss, but they were trivial by comparison with what could happen...

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