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Saving Turkey's Children

12 Jun 2020

Exiled by Hitler, Albert Eckstein turned his medical expertise to saving Turkey's poorest children from the curse of infant mortality.

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Fetcher who became keeper to millions of books

22 Nov 2019

Robin James has worked at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library for 26 years. Today, he leads the team responsible for the Library’s ‘Cathedral of Books’ – a...

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Annotating history: thoughts of an Elizabethan scholar revealed

21 Sep 2019

Previously unrecorded book from Gabriel Harvey’s collection extends our knowledge of one of the most conspicuous and fascinating early modern...

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Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library unveils the rich histories, struggles and hidden labours of Women at Cambridge

05 Sep 2019

One hundred and fifty years since the first women were allowed to study at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library will be sharing...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas

01 Aug 2019

A contagious canine cancer that conquered the world by spreading between dogs during mating likely arose around 6,000 years ago in Asia and spread...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥collector of future memories

24 Jun 2019

College Recorder Alice Oates is passionate about Pembroke, its community and capturing the latest instalment in the College’s 670-year history.

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Criminals, miscreants and misdemeanours

12 Jun 2019

Two centuries of Isle of Ely court records illuminate the darkest corners of the region's past.

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Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts

27 Mar 2019

Centuries-old manuscripts feature the works of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Euripides.

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Margaret Thatcher

1989: ̽»¨Ö±²¥year Margaret Thatcher’s apparent mastery slipped away

09 Mar 2019

Forty thousand pages of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s personal and political papers from 1989 are being opened to the public at the...

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‘Murder map’ reveals medieval London’s meanest streets

28 Nov 2018

First digital map of the murders recorded by the city's Coroner in early 1300s shows Cheapside and Cornhill were homicide ‘hot spots’, and Sundays...

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Workhouse Women in St. Giles's Church by Charles Holroyd (1880-84). ©Trustees of the British Museum

Historian uncovers new evidence of 18th century London's 'Child Support Agency'

26 Jul 2018

How 18th and 19th century London supported its unmarried mothers and illegitimate children – essentially establishing an earlier version of today’s...

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Six Cambridge academics elected to prestigious British Academy fellowship

20 Jul 2018

Six academics from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

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