Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin among its eight...
Five key objects from the world-class collections at Kettle’s Yard have been made available online to view through film, sound, photographs and 360...
A study of one of the most important medieval texts devoted to women’s medicine has opened a window into the many rituals associated with conception...
One of the most important maps of the UK ever made – described as the ‘Magna Carta of geology’ – is to go on permanent public display in Cambridge...
̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, H is for...
What do we mean when we say that someone has ‘classical’ good looks? Are male nudes in art appropriate viewing for family audiences? In looking at...
A new book tells, for the first time in full, the extraordinary story of drawings of embryos initially published in 1868. ̽»¨Ö±²¥artist was accused of...
An exhibition of ‘treasured possessions’ from the 15th to the 18th centuries reveals how we first fell in love with shopping, and takes us back to an...
A new research project is compiling the largest database of plague imagery ever amassed, focusing on a pandemic that peaked in the early 20th century...
![̽»¨Ö±²¥"empericum that never fails" in the margin of the Compendium of Gilbertus Anglicus. ̽»¨Ö±²¥instructions are for making and applying an amulet for conception.](/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/features/160122pembroke.jpg?itok=5yFwZnEG "̽»¨Ö±²¥"empericum that never fails" in the margin of the Compendium of Gilbertus Anglicus. ̽»¨Ö±²¥instructions are for making and applying an amulet for conception., Credit: By permission of the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge")
