The Really Popular Book Club, 28 February 7-8pm

Dr Diarmuid Hester leads The Really Popular Book Club, 28 February 7-8pm Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) will lead a discussion of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Hours for Cambridge University Library’s The Really Popular Book Club. The event is free, it takes place online, and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information […]

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Professor Michael D. Hurley lectures on John Henry Newman at The St Mary’s Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts

Professor Hurley will give a lecture on ‘The Shattered Majesty of Newman’s Spontaneous Style’ at a symposium on studying Newman through Literature at St Mary’s University, London (20th and 21st February). For a list of speakers and further details, including how to register for the symposium, please see the attached flyer and link: Links for further information: […]

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Cambridge Saffron presents the findings of a year-long project to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university

The University Library has just launched an online exhibition called Cambridge Saffron, the product of a year-long project funded by the University’s Research and Collections Programme to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university. Kasia Boddy & Bonnie Lander Johnson, of the English Faculty, & Alice […]

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Transplantations: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration, Monday 23 January, 4-6pm, Faculty of English

TRANSPLANTATIONS: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration Monday 23 January 4-6pm GR06/07 Ground floor English Faculty 9 West Road Cambridge Jennie Spears from the Lemon Tree Trust https://lemontreetrust.org/about/ and Adam Alexander the ‘Seed Detective’ https://theseeddetective.co.uk/my-book/ talk about their work protecting and propagating the stability of plants and people amid the global turbulence of […]

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