A screenshot from the 1971 British gangster film Villain, starring Richard Burton. Dir. Michael Tuchner

Cinematic geographies of Battersea

07 May 2013

Research is combining film ‘archaeology’ with digital technology to create a new approach to ‘sites of memory’ for the London borough of Battersea.

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Cambridge launches first Creative Writing degree

26 March 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge’s first Master of Studies (MSt) in Creative Writing will explore the art of writing in all its many forms and guises, not just novel writing, according to Course Director Dr Sarah Burton.

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Detail from Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49), Polonaise in A-flat major for piano, Op. 53: autograph manuscript, 1842–43.

̽»¨Ö±²¥virtual Chopin

01 March 2013

One of the greatest composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin, had an irrepressible creative imagination, and his music experienced continual evolution as a result. Now, a new online resource is bringing the many versions of his compositions together in one place, opening up new possibilities for performers, listeners and researchers alike.

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Cities and how we live in them

19 February 2013

More and more of us live in cities where disparate communities jostle for space. Eminent sociologist Richard Sennett will give a public lecture on ̽»¨Ö±²¥Open City in Cambridge on Thursday 21 February.

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Cartoon produced as state propaganda in China during the 1950s

Out of the ashes of Empire

12 February 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan’s Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again becomes a major theatre in world politics, a new project aims to tell that history from the inside.

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Renaissance

Piety in the Renaissance Home

14 January 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥notion of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’ is to be challenged by three ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge researchers after securing €2.3m funding from the European Research Council.

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