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Medieval Chivalry

Who is not fascinated by knights in shining armor? Their images continue to attract us to dramatic films, to museum exhibits of elaborate armor and weaponry, or to the showmanship of staged jousts at “Renaissance...

Richard W. Kaeuper | 30 Sep 2016

An interview with Dan Gunn on The Letters of Samuel Beckett (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss what Beckett would have thought about the project and whether these letters bring us closer to the man himself.

30 Sep 2016

Shimon Peres: From Dimona to Oslo

“Peres has done more for the cause of peace in the Middle East than just about anybody alive” said President Obama in 2012 upon bestowing Shimon Peres the Medal of Freedom. And while the world mourns...

Yael S. Aronoff | 29 Sep 2016

An interview with Dan Gunn on The Letters of Samuel Beckett (Part 1)

In the first part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss his experiences working on the series, his favourite letters and what we now know about Beckett that we didn't know before.

29 Sep 2016

Let’s Not Waste a Great Opportunity

With six weeks remaining until the U.S. Presidential Election, the race is locked in a virtual deadlock.  That fact, in and of itself, is pretty remarkable given that a woman is as likely to be the...

Bert A. Spector | 28 Sep 2016

A Journey through the History of Human Rights with Mark Philip Bradley

Mark Philip Bradley shares with us an interactive timeline detailing unforgettable events in the Human Rights movement.

Mark Philip Bradley | 28 Sep 2016

Channel your inner Beckett

In the run up to the fourth and final volume in The Letters of Samuel Beckett series publishing, we've got 4 e-cards you can share featuring famous Beckett quotes

28 Sep 2016

New book trailer for The Letters of Samuel Beckett

In this book trailer editor George Craig reads some of Beckett's letters taken from the fourth and final volume in the series, 'The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966 - 1989'.

26 Sep 2016

The Trouble with Trolls

Cambridge author John Suler explores ‘trolls’ in his new book Psychology of the Digital Age.

John Suler | 23 Sep 2016

Time is precious — optimize your approach to learning general relativity

Robert B. Scott, author of A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity, 2016 considers the personal and professional reasons for writing his book and the best aspects of solutions manuals, offering advice on solving problems and getting the best out of the many resources available for learning general relativity

Robert Scott | 22 Sep 2016

Some thoughts on assembling a creature: editing The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein.

Assembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that...

Andrew Smith | 21 Sep 2016

Sculpting the Earth

Landscapes of the Anthropocene So it seems that the Anthropocene is really here and the Holocene is over. Humans have significantly altered the surface of the Earth. Geologists in the Working Group on...

Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles | 20 Sep 2016