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2 Sep 2013: I had such a good time, particularly the Shakespeare performance!". Law, Economics, Politics and Geography were covered in the Social Sciences Summer Schools. ... Economics students examined how microfinance (including institutions like the Grameen Bank)

9 Jan 2013: 1851. The Natural Sciences Tripos is first examined, loosening the stranglehold of mathematics and classics on the syllabus, and opening the door to modern studies of the arts and sciences. ... Professor James Mirrlees is awarded the Nobel Prize for

23 Dec 2013: Resurrection of several extinct species, the increasingly accelerated loss of wild rhinoceroses and a disastrous financial response to unburnable carbon are

18 Dec 2013: Dicey firmly believed in both the power and economic advantages of a united nation.

12 Dec 2013: Sitting in his room high up in one of the University of Cambridge’s zoology buildings, Dr Ed Turner holds a small bottle up to the light. Inside, preserved in

9 Dec 2013: th. –19. th. century and is an invaluable 1,000-year record of the religious, social, economic and cultural life of the Mediterranean world.

5 Dec 2013: Lord Grabiner, who became a life peer in 1999, was educated at the Central Foundation Boys’ School, Hackney, then at the London School of Economics (LSE) and also completed his LLM

25 Nov 2013: Excessive alcohol consumption is a major cause of ill-health and mortality and is also associated with economic and social harm.

22 Nov 2013: to be crucial to the country’s economic growth.

21 Nov 2013: No member of the current British cabinet has a scientific degree – the closest is Vince Cable, who initially read Natural Sciences at Cambridge before switching to Economics. ... Six cabinet members read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at