How does a Lovari extended family enact the sharing of material resources, and of intangible gifts conveyed through gesture, dance, song and speech? How do these practices confer...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Thu 22 Jan 2015

Dr Becky Lewis, Assistant Professor Emerita University of South Carolina; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Fri 5 Feb 2016

Musical improvisation is often considered in terms of indeterminacy and freedom. It would thus seem to resist the systemization of a scientific approach. However, as cognitive...

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Wed 5 Jun 2013

Anthony Green RA in conversation with Dr Frank Whitford about his art and the convictions and experiences that have shaped it, on 1 May 2013 at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Thu 2 May 2013

A conversation between artist Jonathan Meuli and Professor Philip Lindley, Excellence 100 Professor of Art History, Loughborough University, at Wolfson College, Cambridge at the...

Collection: Wolfson Fine Arts

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Fri 1 Feb 2019

The post-war period in British history has proven to be one of remarkable change for the United Kingdom, from the rapid dismantling of the Empire through adjusting to a...

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Mon 9 Dec 2013

E.M. Forster’s famous phrase, ‘Only Connect’, is not only a guide to a successful emotional life; it is also a guide to cognition. The universities were reformed in the...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Tue 13 May 2014

The economist John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks in the late 1920s was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd. The...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Tue 26 May 2015

Margaret Greeves, Emeritus Fellow Wolfson College, interviewed on the radio station Cambridge 105 about the Myths, Memories and Mysteries exhibition.

Collection: Fine Arts

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Wed 27 Aug 2014

Collection: Cambridge Dickens Fellowship

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Mon 22 Apr 2013

Together, the adult lives of Eliza (c.1820-1850), Caroline (1816-1889), Matilda (1816/17-1866) and Emilie Ashurst (1826?-1893) spanned the greater part of Queen Victoria’s reign....

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Thu 23 Jan 2014

As population ageing progresses globally, incidents of dementia, a condition closely associated with ageing, are also on the rise. As a result, there has been an increasing...

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Thu 25 Feb 2016

The discovery of a spring complex, adjacent to Vespasian's Camp and just over a mile from Stonehenge, with well preserved and substantial Mesolithic deposits, potentially...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Tue 13 May 2014

The second lecture in this series was given by Professor David Reynolds on Wednesday 27 May 2009 at 5.30pm in the Lee Hall.

Collection: Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Wed 13 Jan 2010

In the 1960’s, it was generally admitted that ancient Egypt was a civilization which did not possess cities. To define an ancient Egyptian city turns out to be a difficult task...

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Tue 9 Jun 2015

When Dorigen mourns the absence of Arveragus in ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, her friends ‘prechen hire’ to ‘make hire leve hir hevinesse’. Their preaching takes effect in the same way...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Wed 14 Oct 2015

Dr Alastair Reid (Fellow, Girton College)

Trade Unions and the British Tradition of Pluralism

In contrast to the usual assumption that trade unions were the product of...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Fri 5 Oct 2018

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Dr Alex da Costa (University Lecturer at the Faculty of English; Fellow of Newnham College)

'The Pardoner's Passing and How it Matters: Gender, Relics...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Fri 5 Oct 2018

Dr Alexi Baker’s research over the past decade has revealed how ‘scientific instruments’ before the rise of modern science included everything from cutting-edge technologies and...

Collection: Humanities Society

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Thu 18 Dec 2014

Conspiracy theories are often regarded as individual cognitive failings and collective pathologies of public reason. In this paper I will argue for the democratic benefits of...

Collection: Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series

Institution: Wolfson College

Created: Thu 6 Nov 2014