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Poet, activist, bird watcher: exploring John Clare as nature writer
The poet John Clare (1793-1864) was a keen natural historian who knew the countryside in all its moods. His various jobs saw him labouring in farms and gardens; his gravestone remembers him as the...
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‘They sailed away, for a year and a day’: why learning poetry by heart is...
Edward Lear’s bizarre and beautiful poem, The Owl and the Pussy-cat, was first published in 1871. Featuring an unlikely romance, a wedding ring purchased from a pig and a marriage officiated by a...
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The Billingford Hutch and the moonwort fern – a medieval mystery solved
A visitor to the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College may have solved the puzzle of a curious decorative detail on a chest dating from the early 15th century. The massive oak chest is known as the...
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Blood and bodies: the messy meanings of a life-giving substance
What is blood? Today we understand this precious fluid as essential to life. In medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood were almost too numerous to locate. Blood was simultaneously the...
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Cambridge ceremony reveals the winners of BBC Short Story and Young Writers’...
Announced this evening during a live broadcast of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’ from the University’s West Road Concert Hall, Persaud was presented with the £15,000 prize for a work described by judge and...
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The Lost Words
Shorthand Story: U8dU1qGYSbShorthand Story Head: The Lost WordsShorthand Story Body: The Lost WordsThe Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to...
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Arthur Schnitzler Digital Edition
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State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin
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Cambridge University Library stages first public play in its 600-year history
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World's oldest Korean Bibles at Cambridge University Library
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