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‘What have the Victorians ever done for us?’

The 19th century has also given us almost all our most familiar institutions, our ideas about ourselves and our history, and the very fabric and rhythm of our lives.From the rituals of royal...

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Past versus present in an age of progress: the Victorians

It was the age of industrialisation and political revolution, compulsory education and the dominance of the novel, the start of the postal service and the invention of the train, the excitement of...

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Driving a harpoon deep into the floating carcass of Humbug

In the first half of the 19th century science was not a profession but a vocation. Today, for many, it is both. Jim Secord is best known in Cambridge and beyond for his role as Professor of History and...

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The archaeology of childhood

Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past opens today and runs until January 29, 2017, at Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, bringing together collections held by the...

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Infant bodies were ‘prized’ by 19th century anatomists, study suggests

A new study of the University of Cambridge anatomy collection suggests that the bodies of foetuses and babies were a “prized source of knowledge” by British scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries,...

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Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history,...

Cutting welfare and social care budgets during times of economic hardship is an “historically obsolete” strategy that ignores the very roots of British prosperity, a group of Cambridge academics have...

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‘What have the Victorians ever done for us?’

The 19th century has also given us almost all our most familiar institutions, our ideas about ourselves and our history, and the very fabric and rhythm of our lives.From the rituals of royal...

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Past versus present in an age of progress: the Victorians

It was the age of industrialisation and political revolution, compulsory education and the dominance of the novel, the start of the postal service and the invention of the train, the excitement of...

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Driving a harpoon deep into the floating carcass of Humbug

In the first half of the 19th century science was not a profession but a vocation. Today, for many, it is both. Jim Secord is best known in Cambridge and beyond for his role as Professor of History and...

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The archaeology of childhood

Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past opens today and runs until January 29, 2017, at Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, bringing together collections held by the...

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Infant bodies were ‘prized’ by 19th century anatomists, study suggests

A new study of the University of Cambridge anatomy collection suggests that the bodies of foetuses and babies were a “prized source of knowledge” by British scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries,...

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Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history,...

Cutting welfare and social care budgets during times of economic hardship is an “historically obsolete” strategy that ignores the very roots of British prosperity, a group of Cambridge academics have...

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Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child mortality...

The Populations Past website is part of the Atlas of Victorian Fertility Decline research project based at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Essex. It displays...

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The forgotten poet of Fordham

Shorthand Story: o6NAmGSZVQShorthand Story Head: The forgotten poet of FordhamShorthand Story Body: The forgotten poet of Fordham"There are many apparently unpublished poems here which have waited the...

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