A short film on Dr Emily Lethbridge’s reseach on Icelandic sagas has been released by Cambridge University; you can see it here: http://www.vimeo.com/29594820 It is described in the University’s news pages here: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/video-and-audio/cambridge-ideas-memories-of-old-awake/
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Dr Mark Blackburn
It is with deep sadness that we report the death of Dr Mark Blackburn LittD., Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in Numismatics and Monetary History in the Department; he died at home on 1 September 2011. Dr Blackburn’s recent research is celebrated on p. 4 of the current issue […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Michael Lapidge awarded honorary degree from the University of Toronto
On 10 June of this year Michael Lapidge (Lecturer in the Department from 1974 onwards, Professor from 1991 to 1998) was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters (D. Litt.) from the University of Toronto, where he had first taken his PhD degree forty years earlier. He was presented to the Toronto convocation by Andy Orchard, […]
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