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A unique collection of hundreds of interviews with people who witnessed Indian independence and the final days of the British Raj is being put online.

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge welcomed Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness ̽��ֱ��Duke of Edinburgh KG KT, Chancellor of the ̽��ֱ��, today as part of the ̽��ֱ��’s 800th Anniversary Celebrations.

Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library has taken a huge step towards acquiring the archive of Siegfried Sassoon’s personal papers – after the announcement of a £550,000 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund. ̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� Library’s £1.25 million campaign, launched at Sotheby’s in June, is now tantalisingly close to success.

Home to more than eight million books and periodicals, one million maps, and many thousands of manuscripts, issues of space are a recurring theme at Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library.

Fifteen-year-old Julija Stukalina’s diary of the Excellence East Summer School wins the last competition in our series. Julija was born in Lithuania but now lives in a village in Suffolk, attending Colchester County High School for Girls. Her hobbies include “reading, watching ̽��ֱ�� Challenge (far too much of), and orienteering at a very leisurely pace”. ̽��ֱ��Excellence East Summer School is for Gifted and Talented teenagers and this year focused on history.

Families, local residents and community groups are being invited to discover rarely-glimpsed parts of the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge and Colleges at this year’s Open Cambridge event, from September 11th to 13th.

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A major new research programme which proposes a comprehensive reassessment of the history of reproduction is to be launched at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge.

̽��ֱ��Ambassadors of 12 member countries of the Arab League visited the ̽��ֱ�� this week on a fact-finding mission.

Among the first to arrive at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge Open Days taking place today and tomorrow were 17-year-old Sean Stilwell and his father, Mark (pictured above). They had driven down to Cambridge last night from Trefriw, a village in North Wales, where Sean goes to Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy – a comprehensive where most of the 800 pupils are bilingual.

̽��ֱ��light show which wowed thousands over four days in January at the start of the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary celebrations, was one of the highlights of the opening ceremony of the 2nd China International Youth Arts Festival in Beijing last weekend.