Cambridge academics elected to British Academy fellowship
27 July 2020Eight academics from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Eight academics from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.
̽»¨Ö±²¥year 1969 is held up as the end of an era, but fifty years on are we still buying into a dangerous myth? Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction.
Previously unrecorded book from Gabriel Harvey’s collection extends our knowledge of one of the most conspicuous and fascinating early modern annotators
A Cambridge literary scholar suggests that the handwriting on a Shakespeare First Folio in Philadelphia matches that of the Paradise Lost poet, John Milton.
±Ê±ð°ù³¦²âÌýByssheÌý³§³ó±ð±ô±ô±ð²â’sÌý ̽»¨Ö±²¥Mask of Anarchy, the most celebrated literary response to the Peterloo massacre – which has its bicentenary on 16 August – drew on accounts of the tragedy written by the radical journalist and freethinker, Richard Carlile.
In a new film, leading Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ researchers discuss the far-reaching advances offered by artificial intelligence – and consider the consequences of developing systems that think far beyond human abilities.
Booker Prize shortlistee Daisy Johnson and beatboxer Testament have today been announced as judges of the BBC’s Ìý²¹²Ô»å with Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ and First Story – as submissions for the 2019 competitions open.
̽»¨Ö±²¥Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural world.
Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud, has won the thirteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ for ‘ ̽»¨Ö±²¥Sweet Sop’, her first short story about a young Trinidadian man reunited with his absent father via the power of chocolate.
̽»¨Ö±²¥first major repository of legal practices for mediators and conflict parties to draw on when negotiating peace has won the top prize in this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.