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An Unlikely Spanish Don: the life and times of Professor John Brande Trend
John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a circuitous route through a variety of disciplines, encountering a host of prominent people in pre-war political, cultural and intellectual life. It was this wider experience that made his teaching so unique and makes his story central to the period through which he lived. Read more...
Cambridge Computing: the first 75 years
Cambridge Computing: The First 75 Years marks the 75th anniversary of the Computer Laboratory and the centenary of Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes who directed the laboratory for 35 years. Read more...
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Digital Rock Art from prehistoric Europe: heritage, film archaeology - the catalogue accompanying the exhibition showing at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology until 23 March 2013. Read more...
Red Joan
Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Read more...
Independent Cambridge 2013
Independent Cambridge is a 192 page, full-colour book in a handy format with beautiful photographs, maps and words that builds in to a celebratory narrative of this individuality, as well as a detailed guide to the fantastic range of products, services, venues and events you will only find offered by Cambridge independents. Read more...
The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 years of Innovation and Enterprise
A definitive history of the last 50 years of the Cambridge Phenomenon, and the incredible explosion of technology, life sciences and service companies that has occurred in the city since 1960. The Book is aimed at the people and companies who have contributed to building the Cambridge Phenomenon. Read more...
Cambridge in Concrete
Images from the RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection, edited by Dr Marco Iuliano and Professor Francois Penz from the University's Department of Architecture. Read more...
The Coder Special Archive
The authors along with 70 plus former 1950s national service Naval conscripts reveal how they learned Russian, spied on the Soviet military and shed light on the East-West conflict. Featuring contributions from alumni including but not limited to: Sir John Drummond (Trinity 1955), Dr James Muckle (Peterhouse 1957) and Mark Frankland (Pembroke 1954) Read more...
College Chapels
Veterinary student and photographer Greg Dickens has here collected the images from his hugely successful exhibition into an accessible and beautiful hardback volume. Read more...
Glynn Thomas: East Anglia – A Different Perspective
Cambridge-born printmaker Glynn Thomas uses an ancient technique and an eye for detail to produce highly original images of familiar places. Shortlisted in the Art & Photography category of the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards 2012 Read more...
Extramural: Literature and Lifelong Learning
An impassioned and articulate defence of the enduring importance of lifelong learning, and in particular the value of literary education for those seeking to expand their knowledge and horizons in adult life. Read more...
The Colleges of Cambridge University
This is not just 'another book about Cambridge'. It is unique in that it brings together in one publication the thirty-one colleges that comprise the University of Cambridge. Following a brief introduction and history of each college, there follows details of that college's unique features. Read more...
Hughes Hall 1885-2010
Beautifully illustrated with new and archival images, the history offers an affectionate and engaging narrative of Hughes Hall’s remarkable story of achievement, documenting College life from 1885 to the present day. Read more...
Life on the edge: Peter Danckwerts GC, MBE, FRS
Peter Danckwerts was brilliant, witty and wise. A hero of the London Blitz, disarming parachute mines at 23, Danckwerts later turned his sharp intellect to chemical processing. This biography covers his interest in wine, women and song, as well as his wide grasp of things scientific and the great sympathy and generosity he showed to his colleagues and many friends. Read more...
Turing: A Natural Philosopher
Influenced by his codebreaking work in World War II, Turing argued that all the operations of the mind could be performed by computers. This text provides a critical analysis of Turing's developing thought, relating it to his life and to the more recent ideas of Roger Penrose. Read more...
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. This title presents his portrait. Read more...
On Fenner’s Sward: A History of Cambridge University Cricket Club
Many of the great names of world cricket have represented the famous old university. In recent years, John Crawley and Mike Atherton have gone on to play for England, while earlier stars include K.S. Duleepsinhji, Phil Edmonds, Arthur Gilligan, Steve James, R. Subba Row, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, Tony Lewis and Sammy Woods. Read more...
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...
