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Learning to be a Publisher
The Cambridge University Press which Michael Black joined in 1951 as Assistant Secretary to the Syndics was tiny, traditional, gentlemanly and almost unchanged since the Second World War. Read more...
A View from the Lodge
These are the reminiscences of a Cambridge College Porter, all the more remarkable for being true, with only some of the names and places changed in the tradition of discretion. Read more...
The Cambridge Book of Days
Taking you through the year day by day, "The Cambridge Book of Days" contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of England as a whole. Read more...
St John's College, Cambridge: A History
Within a generation of its foundation on the site of a decayed hospital at the behest of Lady Margaret Beaufort, England's queen mother, the College of St John the Evangelist had established itself as one of the kingdom's foremost educational establishments: in the words of one notable contemporary, as 'an university within it selfe' indeed. Read more...
Madingley Rise and Early Geophysics at Cambridge
This fine illustrated hardback volume, written by Carol Williams, traces the fascinating story of Geophysics at Madingley Rise. Read more...
Cambridge Then and Now
Cambridge Then and Now is the latest in the long-running series that uncovers archive photos of the landmark sites of a city and re-photographs them from exactly the same viewpoint today. Read more...
The Mays XIX
Each year, the Mays publishes a selection of the best and most exciting new writing from students at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, ever since it first appeared in 1993. Read more...
Nova Cantabrigiensis
Nova Cantabrigiensis is a utopian island in the middle of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia. Read more...
Cambridge's West Side Story
The transformation of the landscape of west Cambridge began with the enclosure in 1802/5 of the 1,300-acre Parish of St Giles, one of the two great open fields of the medieval Borough. Read more...
Cambridge Student Pranks: A History of Mischief & Mayhem
Cambridge University is famed for the resourcefulness and innovation of its students. Read more...
Sidney Sussex College: A History
Richard Humphreys, an alumnus of Sidney and an enthusiast for all aspects of its history, has unearthed fascinating facts, people and connections that present the life of an extraordinary community through four hundred years of English history. Read more...
Reflections on Cambridge
The traditions and creativity of Cambridge University have survived 800 years. Read more...
Architecture in Cambridge
First published in 1942, Theodore Fyfe’s book on Cambridge architecture was written to ‘enable the visitor to Cambridge to realise the value of the Town and University for illustrating the sequence of styles in English architecture’. Read more...
Blood over Water
On a blustery, overcast April day in 2003, David and James Livingston raced against each other in the 149th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, watched by over seven million people. Read more...
The University of Cambridge: A New History
The intertwined story of the great English 'Varsity' universities has many colorful aspects in common, yet also boasts elements of true originality. Read more...
Building Pembroke Chapel: Wren, Pearce and Scott
Although the chapel of Pembroke College, Cambridge, is commonly taken to be Sir Christopher Wren’s first building, there has been no previous study of how it came into being. Read more...
Cambridge: Treasure Island in the Fens
Cambridge is much admired and yet the admiration of those who live there, visit or were educated at the university is not always matched by an equivalent knowledge. Read more...
Do you think you’re Clever? The Oxbridge Questions
The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates. Read more...
Arena of Ambition: A History of the Cambridge Union
Stephen Parkinson, an ex-President of the Society, charts the history of the Union from its nineteenth-century origins, focusing particularly on the turbulent Second World War and post-war years - during which the Union building was hit by a German bomb and commandeered by the army, future Cabinet ministers fell out over bitterly contested elections, and controversies raged about the admission of women and the place of such an apparently antiquated club in a modern university. Read more...
Growing up in Cambridge - From Austerity to Prosperity
This fascinating story of life in Cambridge is written from the idiosyncratic perspective of an author who not only grew up in the city during the 1950s and 1960s, but who also attended its prestigious university. Read more...
A 'Splendid Idiosyncrasy': Prehistory at Cambridge 1915-50
Based on many interviews with Alumni and new archival sources, 'A Splendid Idiosyncrasy' is the original history of archaeology and anthropology in the early-Twentieth century at Cambridge. Read more...
