Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 100 - Michaelmas term 2023
Features
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Black Atlantic
How does Cambridge fit into the mesh of money, people and culture created by the transatlantic slave trade?
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If CAM could speak…
As we publish this, the 100th issue, we had to ask: what has CAM herself made of it all?
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Time is of the essence
How did the digital calendar became a modern-day story of work, leisure… and power?
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On the ball
In Cambridge, you know something is important because it comes with its own committee.
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NHS at 75
At 75 years old is the NHS still fit for purpose? And what will the next 75 years bring?
Regulars
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Inbox: CAM 100
Read the editor’s letter and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 99.
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Campendium: Michaelmas Term 2023
Bawdy bards, robot chefs and the astonishing tale behind a jewelled 15th-century prayer book in Trinity College Library.
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We have lift off!
Cambridge University Spaceflight has one major aim – to launch a rocket into space. And they’re almost there.
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Refreezing the Arctic – working with nature to buy us more time
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald on emergency measures to slow climate change.
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John Simpson: B2 Mallory, Magdalene
Intrepid traveller John Simpson returns to his room at Magdalene to find current occupant Ben Weidmann – and one very welcome addition.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr (Clare 1973) has changed the way “Black authors get read and Black history gets told”
An alumni life: Henry Louis Gates Jr’s extraordinary and pioneering journey.
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This idea must die: “Obesity is caused by lack of willpower”
Professor Sadaf Farooqi says being slim is a matter of luck, not a demonstration of moral superiority.
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“Hearing something different refreshes that part of your brain”
Whether listening, accompanying, running or just switching off, music plays a central role in Professor Deborah Prentice’s life.
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