For the Festival of Ideas, Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose, a researcher on the CRIC research project, will discuss the unexpected impact and diverse use of memorials in societies recovering from war. Directed from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the CRIC project is investigating the reconstruction of cultural heritage after conflict in different areas of Europe.
探花直播daring Dambusters raid of World War II, in which RAF pilots famously used a bouncing bomb to breach two German dams, has been recreated by a Cambridge-led team to prove how the amazing feat was achieved.
A Cambridge 探花直播 archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of people who were deported to German prison camps during World War II.
探花直播remarkable story of a daring World War II operation in which hundreds of people fleeing the Japanese advance through Burma were rescued by elephant is to be told in full for the first time.
A new analysis of the Munich Games of 1972 places the event at the very centre of modern German history, as Dr Chris Young explains.
An article that Winston Churchill wrote but then banned from publication because of its 鈥減erverse鈥 messages about the persecution of Jews has been uncovered by a Cambridge 探花直播 historian.
Winston Churchill was a 鈥渃loset science-fiction fan鈥 who borrowed the lines for one of his most famous speeches from H. G. Wells, a Cambridge academic has discovered.
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