The Pleasures and Perils of Smoking in Calverley’s “Ode to Tobacco”
Politicians now promise a “smoke-free” UK, but one Cambridge plaque suggests an alternative plan: doctors be damned, “take a fresh cigar!”
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Issam Kourbaj’s “Urgent Archive”: Exhibition Review
The latest Kettle’s Yard exhibition is a real-time battle to preserve Syrian history from oblivion, but does it stick in the viewer’s memory?
A Portrait Attacked: Sectarianism on Cambridge Campus
A portrait of Arthur Balfour was attacked at Trinity College, Cambridge – But why?
Oliver Cromwell: The Coronation That Wasn’t
Today, the 8th of May, is a day with a fair deal of royal baggage. …
An Eighty-Year Wait to Graduate: Women at Cambridge
Historically, women have only had a formal presence in the university setting for the last …
Passing Reality Checkpoint: Welcome to Uncomfortable Cambridge
For the last three years, Uncomfortable Oxford has been bringing the neglected and contentious histories …
