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Black Ned Kelly? 探花直播truth about an infamous Australian bandit

14 Nov 2022

Historian Dr Meg Foster shatters the myth that 鈥淏lack Douglas鈥 murdered a white woman and tells the story of an intelligent survivor

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Workhouse Women in St. Giles's Church by Charles Holroyd (1880-84). 漏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 鈥 essentially establishing an earlier version of today鈥檚...

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Post-war advertisement for air conditioning by Carrier

Back to the future of skyscraper design

01 Mar 2017

Answers to the problem of crippling electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings could be 鈥榚xhumed鈥 from ingenious but forgotten...

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English actor John Liston as the title character in John Poole's 1825 farce, "Paul Pry"

Opinion: How a comic character sparked our very modern privacy fears 鈥 200 years ago

25 Feb 2016

David Vincent (CRASSH) discusses the nineteenth century theatrical sensation that inspired public debate about privacy.

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Deinonychus

Opinion: Six amazing dinosaur discoveries that changed the world

30 Nov 2015

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses the fossil discoveries that really made a difference to science.

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Solomon Schechter at work in the old  探花直播 Library

Solomon Schechter (1847-1915): a Jewish polymath with a gift for friendship

20 Nov 2015

探花直播Jewish scholar Solomon Schechter is best remembered for his work on the Cairo Geniza. A conference this Sunday will explore the wider impact of a...

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What is so unusual about a sloth鈥檚 neck?

11 Nov 2015

探花直播Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge鈥檚 connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, X is for...

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 探花直播'Pevensey whale'

A whale鈥檚 remarkable journey from Sussex to Cambridge

04 Nov 2015

探花直播Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge鈥檚 connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, W is for...

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An over-dressed Victorian man looking at the nude Venus de Milo.

How classical sculpture helped to set impossible standards of beauty

18 Jul 2015

What do we mean when we say that someone has 鈥榗lassical鈥 good looks? Are male nudes in art appropriate viewing for family audiences? In looking at...

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" 探花直播Code Of Honor鈥擜 Duel In  探花直播Bois De Boulogne, Near Paris", wood engraving by Godefroy Durand

To the death

13 Jul 2015

Dr John Leigh has written the first book exclusively devoted to the duel in literature. In Touch茅, he offers a compelling picture of the ways in...

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Comparison of embryos of fish, salamander, turtle, chick, pig, cow, rabbit and human embryos at three different stages of development.

Haeckel鈥檚 embryos: the images that would not go away

06 Jul 2015

A new book tells, for the first time in full, the extraordinary story of drawings of embryos initially published in 1868. 探花直播artist was accused of...

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Feeding time at Battersea Dogs Home. John Charles Dollman, Table d鈥橦么te at a Dogs Home, 1879.

How the dog found a place in the family home 鈥 from the Victorian age to ours

15 May 2015

Dogs have been companions to humans for tens of thousands of years. In a new book, Dr Philip Howell argues that it was the Victorians who 鈥榠nvented鈥...

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