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Disaster at 37,000 feet

06 Jan 2020

Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library archive reveals the facts behind the Hollywood myths of ' ̽»¨Ö±²¥Aeronauts'

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American toys for American boys and girls

Cold War PR - spinning the ideological battlefront

07 Dec 2011

̽»¨Ö±²¥persuasive powers of Cold War PR, until now little recognised or discussed, was the subject of a three-day conference at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥.

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Hugh in the recreated tunnel at Zagan

Recreating ‘ ̽»¨Ö±²¥Great Escape’

28 Nov 2011

First it was the Dambusters raid, now Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Dr Hugh Hunt has helped to recreate ‘ ̽»¨Ö±²¥Great Escape’ from Germany’s infamous Stalag...

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Olga Tribulato as Tiresias and Marta Zlatic as Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King, 2004

Greek tragedy: setting the stage today

01 Feb 2008

With the curtains just closed on the 40th Cambridge Greek Play since the 1880s, Greek classicist Simon Goldhill reflects on how this creative genre...

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