Jade Cuttle explores Vaughan Williams’ fenland legacy on BBC Radio 3 Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph...

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston publishes a chapter in 'The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature' (LUP, 2026) [caption id="attachment_10253" align="alignright" width="198"] Image credit: 'The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature', Edited by Christopher...

Did Valentine's Day pass and you still aren't sure if you are doing this romance thing right?🤔 Yeah, we don't know either. But every day is a good day to find an ebook you love. Click the link below to explore some of the things random items we ❤️love❤️ in our collection. tinyurl.com/3ft9t2am

Titania: everything is damp, damp to the very bones🌧️ #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Titania (Michelle Terry) & Oberon (John Light) in a particularly beautiful Globe Dream in 2013, dir. Dominic Dromgoole. (Feat. brilliant Pearce Quigley as Bottom. More of that anon.)

Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio... Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s...

Prof Sarah Dillon speaker at LSE Narratives in Policy-making event On Tuesday 17th February, Sarah Dillon will join other panelists for a discussion of narratives in policy-making, at the London School of Economics. The event marks the...

Oberon: COW! Titania: BASTARD! CHEATING BASTARD! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Oberon (Nicholas Jones) and Titania (Josette Simon) meet - clash - in the 1999 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Michael Boyd des. Tom Piper

Puck: I am NAUGHTY, I say BUM! look out fairy, here comes Oberon #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Richard McCabe as a punky Puck (school tie, tutu, pointy ears, fairy wings) in the 1989 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. John Caird

Ekaterina Zadirko talks with @drallylouks.bsky.social about diaries revealing love, heartbreak, and everyday life under Stalin – hopes and anxieties that may feel surprisingly familiar. Watch the full video via the link below👇 https://youtu.be/vTwsuBC1mCw #Cambridge #History #ValentinesDay #Learn

Amateur dramatics in the forest! time to learn lines... #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... In the 2016 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream dir. Erica Whyman the 'mechanicals' were played by amateur groups from around the UK. David Mears, here as Bottom, was from The Bear Pit in Stratford.

Bottom: but what BEARD for Pyramus? 🧔🧔‍♂️Quince: ??!! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Part of the joke is that, if Will Kempe (R) is playing Bottom, he already has a beard... This is still often the case: here's Kevin Kline in the 1999 film.

Ross Wilson gives a public lecture at Concordia University, Montreal, 17th February [caption id="attachment_10224" align="alignright" width="275"] Image credit: Paul Klee, Affected Place (1922). Zentrum Paul Klee,...

Dominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking [caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...

Snug can ROAR extempore! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Snug (Laurie Jamieson) & Quince (Helen Monks) 2024 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream dir. Eleanor Rhode 📸Pamela Raith & the Brook Dream 1972, actors uncredited (not sure if casting had changed?): Bottom (L) teaches Snug how to ROAR.