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Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue

The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring days.

From family archive to stage The remarkable journey of ‘Not for a cat’ play at the Cambridge Festival

A recently rediscovered play, Not for a Cat: A Play for the Nuclear Age, will be premiering at the Cambridge Festival. The play was originally written in the 1950s by Wallace R. Harper, a student at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Students from across the country get a taste of studying at Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival

Over 500 KS2 and KS3 students from as far away as Warrington got the chance to experience studying at the University of Cambridge with a selection of lectures and workshops held as part of the Cambridge Festival.

East of Empire: partitioning of India and Palestine unleashed the violent conflict that continues today

In an article for The Conversation, Dr Erin O'Halloran discusses how the partitions of India and Palestine, orchestrated by the British Empire in 1947, have led to enduring conflicts in both regions.

Cambridge film 'tells city's black Town and Gown' story

An alternative story of a university city has been told in a film, which is premiering at the Festival, looking at the voices and experiences of its black students and residents.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Martin Reuhl

Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a University Associate Professor in German History and Thought in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Itab Shuayb,

Dr Itab Shuayb is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge. She is also a professor of inclusive design at the department of architecture and design at the American University of Beirut.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Katherine Hasegawa

Katherine Hasegawa is an emerging and independent Venezuelan ARTivist based in Cambridge. Since 2019, Katherine been using real money as an artistic tool to protest peacefully against acts of injustice.

Free tech eliminates the fear of public speaking

Cambridge scientist launches free AI-enabled virtual reality platform that transforms users into skilled and confident public speakers.

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg

Dr Sam Nallaperuma-Herzberg is a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology, and a Fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science and Society at the Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery.