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Queuing to vote in India

A democratic cacophony

23 Oct 2015

India is home to one of the most vibrant, engaged and mystifying democracies on the planet. Cambridge academics, across a wide range of disciplines...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥8th Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches

19 Oct 2015

Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015 launches today with over 250 events exploring arts, society and culture.

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Angolan civilians walking past the remains of tanks in 2004. Relics of the conflict still litter the Angolan countryside.

̽»¨Ö±²¥war that fed itself - and the hollow democracy it left behind

14 Oct 2015

A new study using extensive eyewitness accounts re-examines the causes and legacy of Angola's brutal 27-year civil war, once described by the United...

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Jeremy Corbyn campaigning in Margate, 5 September 2015

'Spin' or be lost: how Corbyn rejected New Labour PR for a more civic vision

29 Sep 2015

Scott Anthony, Affiliated Research Scholar in the Faculty of History, discusses Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership campaign and the history of...

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David Runciman

Speaker spotlight: Professor David Runciman

23 Sep 2015

Professor David Runciman, Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), answers questions about UK politics, voting, and the...

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Politics debates at the heart of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

18 Sep 2015

Political issues ranging from the future of Europe, the US elections, immigration and how to deal with Islamic extremists will be at the heart of...

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Margaret Thatcher

Archive of Margaret Thatcher acquired for the nation

18 Jun 2015

Margaret Thatcher’s previously unpublished memoir of the Falklands War has been acquired for the nation - after Arts Council England today announced...

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Online voting

Anyone for digital democracy?

02 Mar 2015

Dr Finbarr Livesey – ̽»¨Ö±²¥ lecturer and Deputy Director of the MPhil in Public Policy – submitted research to Parliament’s recent report on...

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Traffic in Ulaanbaator

Mongolia: unravelling the troubled narratives of a nation

27 Feb 2015

In two separate books, anthropologists Dr Franck Billé and Dr Christopher Kaplonski look at the identity of Mongolia, a country that stands at a...

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Women waging peace

16 Jan 2015

Thousands of Jewish- and Palestinian-Israeli women have joined a movement that is spreading across Israel in opposition to repeated cycles of...

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A Sellotaped page from the speech that never was. Homepage image: Miner's strike, 1984 by Nick Sarebi (CC: Att)

̽»¨Ö±²¥speech that never was – Thatcher papers for 1984 open to the public

03 Oct 2014

Papers opened to the public today reveal how the Brighton bombing stopped Margaret Thatcher from widening her infamous ‘enemy within’ rhetoric to...

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Dancing at the opening of a stupa in Shatta village

Creating a shared resource for the endangered culture of the Kalmyks

21 Sep 2014

Almost four centuries ago, ancestors of the Kalmyk people trekked across central Asia to form a Buddhist nation on the edge of Europe. Today Kalmyk...

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