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"I have always wanted to be an artist. But after Cambridge I actually trained to be an English teacher – I think some sort of education informs a lot of what I do."

From the archive: an interview with Quentin Blake on art, reading and childhood.

https://t.co/9IhwzsrA0n

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2020-05-21

Susan Abbs is a keen Urban Sketcher. She teaches life drawing in Cambridge and is a member of Cambridge Drawing Society and a committee member of Urban Sketchers Cambridge and Cambridge Sketch Group Life Drawing.

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2020-05-18



2016 also saw the Fitz stage two very popular shows, have a famous visitor and save some very rare objects for the nation.

It all happens in Cambridge!😉

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2020-05-15

In Cambridgeshire it was considered unlucky for a girl to marry a man with a surname beginning with the same letter as her own:
'Change the name and not the letter,
Change for the worse and not the better.'

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2020-05-14

whats this couple of clowns doing here in pasadena

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2020-05-14

international harvard student lwj

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2020-05-13

another mit wwx because i'm in too deep

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2020-05-12

anyway...here's mit wwx. roll tech

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2020-05-12

“I’m interested in the language of the in-betweenness of things, the mutation of the contradiction, the state of becoming visible.”
—#JennySaville

Happy birthday to Jenny Saville, who was born on this day, May 7, in Cambridge, England.

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2020-05-08

On 7 May 1970, 3 alarms were ordered, Box 3-48, for the fire in Lawrence Hall, a bldg at Cambridge & Kirkland Sts. Several firefighters, including Chief of Dept Cremins, were trapped & injured in a collapse but all were quickly rescued.
Time was 450 a.m.

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2020-05-07

for In the folklore of Cambridgeshire this creature is said to haunt Slough Hill Lane. It's described to have the body of a shaggy black sheep dog and the head of a monkey with huge shiny eyes. My brain just registered "huge shiny eyes" and went "aye-aye".

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2020-05-06

5 May 1549: Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius theologians are presented to Edward VI In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius would be exhumed in & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM)

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2020-05-05

in 1876, starts work on his autobiography: "It was soon after I began collecting stones, i.e., when 9 or 10, that I distinctly recollect the desire I had of being able to know something about every pebble in front of the hall door"
📷Sedgwick Museum (Cambridge)

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2020-05-04

Diversos manuscritos de Jane Austen foram disponibilizados pela Cambridge University!

Dentre os documentos, estão Juvenilia, rascunhos de 'Os Watsons' e 'Persuasão' e seu último e inacabado romance, Sanditon.
Acesse em: https://t.co/KEMigd0rAj

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2020-05-01

29 Apr 1521: Martin Bucer theologian released from his vows becoming a secular priest. He later had a career in - where he was buried in 1551, before being exhumed & burnt under Mary I

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2020-04-29

Another ‘Clever Forever’ success story. After graduating Erin Hoare studied psychology followed by a PhD. Erin plays both Pro Netball & AFLW & is now based in Cambridge UK with her new family. Currently researching how physical activity impacts mental health

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2020-04-24

For Cambridge edition: the is full of unusual and interesting things.

Below: models of horses' teeth, 1890; calculators (they have a whole cabinet full of them; mathematician's knitting project modelling interweaving of atoms, 1885.

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2020-04-16