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探花直播graduate student rewriting Deaf histories and disability histories

05 January 2024

When Kirstie Stage was diagnosed with hearing loss, she realised that the experiences of Deaf and disabled people were missing from the history books. Kirstie is determined to bring these narratives to the fore.

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18 May 2017

Shatanati Kuermanaili describes studying at Cambridge as 鈥減ouring material into my mind鈥. Aged 15, she was identified as one of the brightest pupils...

12 May 2017

He鈥檚 an eminent geographer who 鈥渘ever studied geography鈥. Bhaskar Vira鈥檚 childhood in India and background in economics inform his approach to...

12 May 2017

He鈥檚 an eminent geographer who 鈥渘ever studied geography鈥. Bhaskar Vira鈥檚 childhood in India and background in economics inform his approach to...


11 May 2017

He鈥檚 an eminent geographer who 鈥渘ever studied geography鈥. Bhaskar Vira鈥檚 childhood in India and background in economics inform his approach to...

04 May 2017

Ever since she was 12, Rachel Mumford has been fascinated by South Korea鈥檚 distinctive culture and remarkable recent history. Now a third-year...

27 Apr 2017

She loves the silence of libraries and learnt to ride a bicycle at the age of 38. Hagar Ben-Zion teaches Hebrew at the Language Centre and catalogues...


20 Apr 2017

He learnt to play the organ as a child and developed a keen ear for languages. Now Geerten Boonzaaijer unwinds from economics classes by practising...

13 Apr 2017

With his unusual name and irrepressible good humour, Bobby Seagull emerged as one of the star contestants in the latest 探花直播 Challenge series...

06 Apr 2017

She discovered a love of growing things in an overgrown corner of her parents鈥 Scottish garden. Now, she鈥檚 mastering botanical names and important...


30 Mar 2017

He never intended to take a PhD鈥娾斺妎r to present television documentaries. Hugh Hunt is an all-rounder who combines his interest in things that bounce...

23 Mar 2017

History student Cherish Watton is determined to remember the contribution made by the Land Girls and Lumber Jills.

16 Mar 2017

He discovered performing at medical school in India and, as a PhD student at Cambridge, began to devise his own material. Armed with his 鈥榖aloney...

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