Juliette Bretan traces tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond. A frenzied, interwar explosion of creativity that still echoes today with some unexpected revivals. Tango Goes East will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday 27 April at 7.15pm.  

Ross Wilson has edited Percy Shelley in Context, which is published by Cambridge University Press on 24th April.  With 40 contributors from seven countries, this volume draws together leading experts and emerging voices on the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822).  The volume shows Shelley to have been a writer in the broadest […]

Professor Sarah Dillon contributes expert insight to the BBC ’s Changing Climates series which runs Monday 21st April to Friday 25th April on Radio 4 Extra.  Presented by the meteorologist John Hammond, with contributions by another Cambridge academic – Professor Mike Hulme in Geography – the series explores how science fiction has long served as […]

Dr Rebecca Anne Barr has just published Revisiting Richardson (Bucknell University Press). Co-edited with Prof. Bonnie Latimer (University of Southampton), this collection of essays updates critical debate on the writings of Samuel Richardson and reconsiders his literary legacies. For more information see https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/revisiting-richardson/9781684485659/

Prof. Hurley will join Australian Catholic University (ACU) at its North Sydney campus in September, contributing to teaching across the curriculum of its Western Civilisation Program, delivering the Aletheia Lecture, and conducting a Masterclass at the Ramsay Centre. He will also give a keynote address to the ACU community. Professor Peter Anstey, Director of the […]

The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab now has an embryonic website where future events will sit: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/micl/ The Lab is a new initiative to explore how the creative arts and creative industries might engage with medieval sources.  The Principal Investigator on this project is Professor Anthony Bale.

Jade Cuttle (University of Cambridge PhD student and BBC New Generation Thinker) has turned her current English Literature research into a BBC Radio 3 Essay titled ‘Digging for Words’.  ‘The Essay’, written and presented by Jade, airs on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 9.45pm or is available online now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298fx ‘Digging for […]

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED.  Details will be circulated when the new time for this event is confirmed Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory: Thursday 8 May 2025, 5.30pm Seminar room GR.04, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge ‘Why Medieval Women’s Lives Are Still Relevant’ Diane Watt (Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey) and Pragya Agarwal (Royal Literary Fund […]