Prime Minister of Ireland in Cambridge to announce first Childers Professor of Irish History
20 Feb 2026The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, welcomed the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Micheál Martin, to Cambridge to celebrate the appointment...
Exhibition explores Tudor legacies in contemporary art
20 Feb 2026‘Tudor Contemporary’, the first multidisciplinary exhibition to focus on the legacies of Tudor history and art in contemporary artistic practice is...
From AI to climate repair: Cambridge Festival returns with bold questions for an uncertain world
16 Feb 2026As public trust in institutions is tested, artificial intelligence reshapes everyday life and the effects of climate change become impossible to...
Cambridge academic appointed to new UN panel on AI
13 Feb 2026A University of Cambridge academic has been appointed to a new United Nations panel on Artificial Intelligence.
Early Career Researcher 2025: Imad Ahmed
04 Feb 2026The joint Early Career Researcher winner for 2025 is Imad Ahmed (Faculty of Divinity, School of Arts and Humanities)
British redcoat’s memoir reveals harsh realities of disabled veteran life
15 Jan 2026Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812...
Original version of medieval England’s ‘best-seller’ discovered
05 Jan 2026The only surviving original version of one of late medieval England’s most popular works, Richard Rolle’s Emending of Life , has been identified in...
Cambridge academics and Fellows recognised in New Year Honours 2026
29 Dec 2025Members of the collegiate University honoured for their outstanding contributions to society in science, education, medicine, the environment, and...
Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall infected by parasites, study finds
19 Dec 2025Research examining ancient sewer drain sediment suggests the Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda suffered with intestinal worms and...
Pinochet’s prisoners were tormented with music but still found solace in it
19 Dec 2025110 years after Augusto Pinochet’s birth, Chile has just elected a new far-right President, José Antonio Kast, who has praised the dictator's legacy...
Dragon-slaying saints performed green-fingered medieval miracles, new study reveals
11 Dec 2025Pope Leo XIV's Augustinian order once made swamps fertile, brought trees back to life and multiplied cabbages. A new book by Dr Krisztina Ilko...
First ‘Bible map’ still influences how we think about borders
29 Nov 2025The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the wrong way round – showing...