Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 100 - Michaelmas term 2023

On the ball

Black Atlantic

If CAM could speak...

Cover of CAM 100 showing a person emerging from red curtains

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Black Atlantic

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.

I want to micro-manage you into micro-managing yourself: cartoon

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Time is of the essence

Google. iCal. Outlook. How the digital calendar became a modern-day story of work, leisure… and power.

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If CAM could speak…

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?

Alice Hickson (Philosophy, Third Year), Fitzwilliam Winter Ball Vice President.

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On the ball

Food. Entertainment. Welfare. College. In Cambridge, you know something is important because it comes with its own committee.

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NHS at 75

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 /

John Simpson: B2 Mallory, Magdalene

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”

Someone trying to catch letters with a net

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Inbox: CAM 100

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.

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Campendium: Michaelmas Term 2023

Bawdy bards, robot chefs and the astonishing tale behind a jewelled 15th-century prayer book in Trinity College Library.

Jamie Russell, Downing, Fourth Year Engineering

Student life /

We have lift off!

Cambridge University Spaceflight has one major aim – to launch a rocket into space. And they’re almost there.

Brainwaves /

Refreezing the Arctic – working with nature to buy us more time

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald on emergency measures to slow climate change.

Alumni life /

Henry Louis Gates Jr (Clare 1973) has changed the way “Black authors get read and Black history gets told”

Without Henry Louis Gates Jr (Clare 1973), the field of African and African-American literature studies would look significantly – significantly – different.