Words for Time Travellers
Travel back in time and explore the changing nature of the English Language. From Beowulf and the Anglo Saxons, through...
Read moreTED-Ed
What happens during a stroke? How did teeth evolve? Why should you read Virginia Woolf? Ted-Ed is a series of...
Read moreThe History Chicks
History chicks is a podcast aiming to introduce you to female characters in history, factual or fictional, many of whom...
Read moreCrash Course
Crash Course provides 10 minute YouTube video series on a huge range of topics, building up from an introductory level...
Read moreDiscovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
The British Library has put together a number of resources that will help you discover Romantic and Victorian literature, including...
Read moreHE+
The HE+ website hosts subject resources written by Cambridge academics and is designed for self-study. This is an absolutely brilliant resource...
Read moreThe Greeks, the Romans, and Us
Have you considered Classics? The Cambridge Classics Faculty have launched a new website designed to provide insight into what current...
Read moreThe Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is a brilliant site that allows you to engage with poetic texts and commentary. With a huge...
Read moreRes Gerendae
Graduate students at the Cambridge University Classics Faculty have collaborated to create Res Gerendae, a blog that forges links between...
Read moreNautilus Magazine
Each issue of Nautilus is arranged under a one word theme, connecting articles from all types of discipline together. From...
Read moreNewnham Essay Prizes
Newnham College’s essay prizes are open exclusively to girls studying in Year 12/Lower Sixth and feature a £500 prize for...
Read moreYale Open Courses
Yale is one of the USA’s top universities, and they have a great selection of lectures and materials from their...
Read morePhDCasts
‘So… what is it that you actually do?’ PhDCasts takes current Cambridge PhD students in the Arts, Humanities and Social...
Read moreThe Cambridge Literature Timeline
Being able to situate authors and texts within their historical and literary contexts is important for any literature students. This...
Read moreCRASSH blog
CRASSH is the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, based in Cambridge. Their blog invites contributors...
Read moreThe Conversation
What happens when academics and journalists work together to produce a news website? No matter your interests, be in in...
Read moreGresham College lectures
Gresham College, founded in 1597, exists to disseminate knowledge by providing free public lectures. You can view past lectures on their...
Read moreHE+
The HE+ project website from Cambridge contains resources such as extra reading material, links to external websites, exercises to try...
Read moreHay Festival talks from Cambridge
The Hay Festival is a celebration of literature and the arts, and Cambridge often brings along its own academic to...
Read moreHay Levels
The Hay Levels are a series of five minute videos from some of the world’s leading academics and teachers which...
Read moreFutureLearn
What would you like to learn? Whether it’s ecosystems, health, business, stem cells, climate change, programming, religion or quantum physics,...
Read moreedX
EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from lots of US and world universities. There are over 300 short courses...
Read moreCoursera
MOOCs (or Massive Open Online Courses) have really taken off in popularity in recent years. Coursera partners with top universities...
Read moreCambridge on YouTube
YouTube is probably one of the easiest ways to explore your subject nowadays. The University of Cambridge’s account is great,...
Read moreiTunes U
iTunes U is a dedicated section of Apple’s iTunes Store that houses an endless supply of educational audio and video files from...
Read moreFestival of Ideas
The Cambridge Festival of Ideas is an annual celebration of the arts, humanities and social sciences. Hundreds of talks, performances, films...
Read morePeterhouse Essay Prizes
Peterhouse, one of the Colleges which makes up the University of Cambridge, organises essay competitions each year for students in...
Read moreAeon Magazine
Aeon is an online magazine which features oodles of essays and video documentaries on issues in science and society. It...
Read moreCambridge SMS
The Cambridge Streaming Media Service (SMS) is a huge online vault of recorded public lectures and other events which have...
Read moreBBC iWonder
BBC iWonder features a range of interactive online guides which organise videos, audio files, infographics, activities and written sumaries to...
Read moreIn Our Time on Radio 4
BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ has become a hugely popular discussion programme, attracting over two million listeners who want...
Read moreCorpus Christi College essay competitions
Every year, Corpus Christi College in Cambridge runs a series of essay competitions for Year 12 students. Participants get the...
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