Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 86 — Lent 2019
Features
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The Radical Road
From the General Strike to the campaign to ban Sainsbury’s, Mill Road has long provided a home to Cambridge radicals
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On Kleptocracy
Professor Jason Sharman explains why a crackdown on politicians stealing their nations’ wealth could be revolutionary
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Metalheads
A lecturer in Criticism at the Faculty of English, Dr Ross Wilson says heavy metal and critical theory have more in common than you might think.
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Legal Brexit
It’s the biggest crisis since the Second World War, and I want to talk about it now, not analyse what went wrong in 20 years’ time, says Professor Catherine Barnard
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Attack of the Killer Plants
Beware the vegetation. Beneath their seemingly benign, leafy exteriors lies a world of invasion and counter-attack, mutation and adaptation, slow, painful death and – against all the odds – life
Regulars
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Unearthing how people in Nigeria lived 2,000 years ago
Archaeologist Chioma Vivian Ngonadi’s literally groundbreaking PhD research in Igboland is revealing the area’s dynamic history.
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Training the next generation of historians is a serious business
Dr Renaud Morieux is a University Senior Lecturer in British History and a Fellow of Jesus College.
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Campendium: Lent Term 2019
A £100 million gift and the largest-ever study on genetics and weight gain.
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Rowan Williams: Room Y27 Christ’s
Rowan Williams (Christ’s 1968) and third-year Human, Social and Political Science student Grace Etheredge discuss icons, baked beans and a bed-sized alcove at Y27 Third Court, Christ’s.
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Why you are central to our mission
Alison Traub is Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations
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‘I’ll never forget singing old-school house, waiting for the phone to ring’
Musician Lizzie Ball (St John’s 1999) shares the sounds which shaped her student days at Cambridge
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‘To understand society, you have to make human relationships, rather than structures, your focus’
Professor Stephen J Toope, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, reveals the reads which have had the greatest influence on his life
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Inbox 86
Read the letter from the Editor for CAM 86 and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 85
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Living in the Grad Lane
What attracts the world’s very best grad students to Cambridge? Academic excitement, a global perspective – and outstanding support
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Society: Eyes to the skies with the astronomers
The Cambridge University Astronomical Society can teach you how to get a lens cap off, focus a telescope and use the coordinate system. But you’ll need your own eyes to appreciate the universe.