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Features /
How does Cambridge fit into the mesh of money, people and culture created by the transatlantic slave trade? A new research project is making discoveries about the objects in its collections, the people who collected them and how their stories connect Cambridge to a global history of colonialism.
Google. iCal. Outlook. How the digital calendar became a modern-day story of work, leisure… and power.
Over the past 30 years, CAM has had access to the most brilliant minds, latest innovations and incredible places in Cambridge. As we publish this, the 100th issue, we had to ask: what has CAM herself made of it all?
Food. Entertainment. Welfare. College. In Cambridge, you know something is important because it comes with its own committee.
The NHS treats more than a million patients a day but, at 75 years old, it’s never been under more pressure. So, is it still fit for purpose? And what will the next 75 years bring?
My room, your room /
Intrepid traveller John Simpson returns to his room at Magdalene to find current occupant Ben Weidmann – and one very welcome addition.
This idea must die /
This idea must die: “Obesity is caused by lack of willpower”
Inbox /
Welcome to the Michaelmas edition of CAM – and in fact, the 100th edition of CAM. Brilliant minds, hot innovations, multiple editors – CAM has seen it all. We had to ask: what has she made of it all? We ask the doyenne of Cambridge to spill it.
News /
Bawdy bards, robot chefs and the astonishing tale behind a jewelled 15th-century prayer book in Trinity College Library.
Student life /
Cambridge University Spaceflight has one major aim – to launch a rocket into space. And they’re almost there.
Brainwaves /
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald on emergency measures to slow climate change.
Alumni life /
Without Henry Louis Gates Jr (Clare 1973), the field of African and African-American literature studies would look significantly – significantly – different.
Soundtrack /
Whether listening, accompanying, running or just switching off, music plays a central role in Professor Deborah Prentice’s life.
Your directory to alumni life: events, benefits and updates.
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