Search

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

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)

1 May 2013: Parts of the UK are at greater risk of invasion by non-native aquatic species than previously thought, according to new research. The first to include human

31 Oct 2013: Diemberger explained: “In a world in which the conceptual models that inform decision makers are increasingly determined by scientific investigation, politics and economics, we asked is there a space for the

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 Apr 2013: 1 million insects, 30,000 bird skins, 10,000 sets of eggs and over 3,500 fossil vertebrates: the Museum of Zoology is a treasure-trove of information about the

14 Mar 2013: had enabled a vigorous economic expansion. ... In the end the 1772-3 financial crisis had few lasting economic effects outside Scotland, where the Ayr Bank mess took decades to resolve.

26 Jul 2013: The 25 July post by Jason Samenow on the global economic impacts of methane emissions in the East Siberian Sea portrays the findings of our research as misleading, a statement with

26 Sep 2013: The 17th century was a period of political and economic unrest: the English Civil War tore communities apart.

31 Jan 2013: Sixty years ago tonight, a storm surge in the North Sea caused catastrophic flooding on the coast of eastern England. The ‘big flood’ of 1953 inundated more