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Cambridge experts on UK drought and climate change

16 Aug 2022

From pollinators to profits, food to fires, here's what Cambridge experts say about the impacts of water scarcity – and what it signals about our...

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Investment in languages education could return double for UK economy

22 Feb 2022

An increase in secondary school pupils learning Arabic, Mandarin, French or Spanish could boost the UK economy by billions of pounds over 30 years...

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History reveals the hazards of dismantling trade protection

31 Jan 2017

As the UK prepares to leave the EU, trade regimes are being reconfigured. Research into 19th-century trade regulations by Carolyn Cobbold, historian...

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The Bank of England & The Duke of Wellington.

Opinion: Forget Super Thursday, the Bank of England can only offer Mildly Useful Thursday

03 Aug 2016

Michael Kitson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses how the Bank of England may try to give the economy a boost.

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Cod skeleton indicating anatomical categories used in the study

Cod bones reveal 13th-century origin of London’s global fish trade

28 May 2014

Researchers have uncovered the medieval tipping-point when local fishing could no longer support the demands of the burgeoning metropolis, and...

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Ship loading at the Cargill Elevator

Agricultural markets and the Great Depression: lessons from the past

07 May 2014

Seventy five years ago, the publication of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath shocked the world with its description of starvation in the...

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A drive travels down the manufacturing line

‘Mid-sized’ firms key to UK manufacturing

29 Apr 2013

A new report suggests that global production shift to Asia may have “run its course” and points to “undervalued” mid-sized manufacturing firms as...

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Lessons from history: how Europe did (and didn’t) grow rich

24 Mar 2013

The Industrial Revolution is seen as the spark that lit Europe’s economic prosperity. In her analysis of markets over many hundreds of years...

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Christos Tsirogiannis

The dark side of the art world

20 Mar 2012

Looting of antiquities from archaeological sites is a serious crime. A fully-booked talk at Cambridge Science Festival on Thursday will unearth some...

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Detail of A View of Maitavie Bay, on the island of Otaheite by William Hodges

Known and unknown: great travellers of the Pacific

05 Nov 2011

Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire tells the story of the Pacific Islanders and their early interactions with Western travellers from the...

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Flag of the United Nations.

Global politics on the agenda at Hay

22 May 2011

Ahead of her talk at the Hay Festival, Dr Amrita Narlikar, Director of the University of Cambridge's new Centre for Rising Powers, discusses how...

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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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