Crummock Water, Cumbria

Landscape, literature, life

29 February 2012

Over the past few years, the genre of ‘nature writing’ has seen a new sense of urgency, fostered by a growing awareness of a natural world under pressure. Dr Robert Macfarlane, from the Faculty of English, believes that writers have played, and continue to play, a central role in conservation by engaging our hearts and our minds.

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Young archaeologists dig up a mystery

04 July 2007
Watch how a group of teenagers taking part in a Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ archaeological dig unexpectedly unearthed the mysterious remains of a woman who could be more than 1,000 years old.
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