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The British Army and the First World War
Innovation is big business. Whether we’re talking about blue chip companies like Apple, multinationals like Google, or the Defence community, the ability to innovate is associated with greater competitive advantage and versatility. Yet, for the mili…
Publishing and Book Culture
Introducing Publishing and Book Culture – a new series of research-focused collections of Elements on aspects of Publishing and Book Culture, published by Cambridge University Press. Inspired by research undertaken during the 2015-17 AHRC and Britis…
Beyond the Headlines on Anjem Choudary’s Release from Prison: An Insight into his Activist Network
With his imminent release from prison for inviting support for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Anjem Choudary and his network of supporters are back in the spotlight. As I write in my forthcoming book, Choudary and his fellow al-Muha…
Central Banks, Democratic States and Financial Power
When the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England purchased bank and state debt during the 2007–2008 crisis, it became apparent that, when technically divorced from fiscal policy, monetary policy cannot revive but only prevent econ…
On the Supreme Court, difficult nominations have led to historical injustices
Far from being unusual, the hurried and partisan Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh mirrors several notable examples of similarly politicized confirmations in U.S. history. Those conflicts, which ultimately placed justices on…
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain by Robert Saunders is available now. This episode is also available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.
The Music Modernization Act and Modern Music
After much hard work and years of lawsuits and other complaints, the United States Congress seems destined finally to update music’s copyright law. The Music Modernization Act passed unanimously in the Senate on September 18 and, having won consent …
Mutiny and the British Pacific
I can still remember the first time I heard about Pitcairn Island. I was a young child, not even a teenager, when I found an old Book Club edition of Nordhoff and Hall’s fictional trilogy detailing the mutiny aboard the Bounty, Captain Bligh’s…
Species Conservation: Lessons from Islands
Islands cover less than 3% of the Earth’s surface, and yet have played a disproportionate role in shaping our understanding of the catastrophic impact we can have on biodiversity. The dodo, solitaire, pygmy hippos and elephant birds are just a…
Remembering the Armistice in America
On November 11 2018, nations around the world will commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One, remembering the armistice that concluded the first truly global war and the deadliest and costliest conflict Europe had ever seen. In the UK, section…
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Leading phonetician, Klaus J. Kohler, invites you to discuss Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction
Dear Reader of this Blog, Cambridge University Press has published the linguistic monograph Kohler, K. J. (2017). Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 156). Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr…
Figures of Speech Competition Winners
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Figures of Speech linguistics cartoon competition. Congratulations to Jonas B. Wittke (a graduate student at Rice University, USA) and Jonathan Maki (an art teacher in Minneapolis) for winning the iPad Pro, A…
What are the linguistic consequences of Brexit?
Blog post written by Gordana Lalic-Krstin and Nadezda Silaski, authors of the article ‘From Brexit to Bregret: An account of some Brexit-induced neologisms in English’ recently published in English Today. What are the linguistic consequen…
The grammar of engagement
This blog post is written by Nicholas Evans, inspired by the Language and Cognition article “The grammar of engagement I: framework and initial exemplification” by Nicholas Evans, Henrik Bergqvist, and Lila San Roque. Read it online …
Linguistics Competition: Figures of Speech
Win an iPad Pro, Apple Pen, £100 of Cambridge University Press books and the chance to have your work seen by thousands! We are inviting academics, researchers, students and enthusiasts, from around the world, to share their passion for the sub…
Q & A: Registered Reports from Journal of Child Language
Beginning in summer 2018, Journal of Child Language will publish a new article format: Registered Reports. We asked two of the journal’s associate editors, Melanie Soderstrom and Elizabeth Wonnacott, a few questions about the introduction of this fo…
Q & A with new English Today Editor Andrew Moody
Welcome on board as Editor of English Today. What was it about the journal that attracted you to the post? Thank you for the warm welcome from CUP, and to the support and assistance I have been given in the month leading up to the formal installation…
Where is Applied Linguistics headed? Cambridge Journal editors weigh in
In advance of the upcoming AAAL Annual Meeting in Chicago, we asked editors of Cambridge applied linguistics journals for their thoughts on the state of the field. Where is applied linguistics headed? Are there new approaches, methods or priorities that y…
‘World Englishes or English as a Lingua Franca: Where does English in China stand?
Blog post based on an article in English Today The spread and development of the English language has triggered debates about issues related to language ideology, identity, and ELT. China is an important context where the popularity of English use a…
Learning Construction Grammars Computationally
Blog post by Jonathan Dunn, Ph.D. Construction Grammar, or CxG, takes a usage-based approach to describing grammar. In practice, this term usage-based means two different things: First, it means that idiomatic constructions belong in the grammar. For exam…
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Cambridge Library Collection
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Goodbyeee!
Alas, and thrice woe (from my point of view anyway), this is my last ever blog for the Cambridge Library Collection. I now slip away into the sunset, leaving others to ramble on (or, even better, write snappily and coherently) … Continue reading &r…
Spring and Port Wine
… is the name of a play and then a film about Bolton, in northern England. However, I’m borrowing the title because I’ve just spent a few spring days in (O)Porto, where the wine comes from. My Portuguese vocabulary has … Co…
The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith is described in his ODNB entry as ‘author and wit’, which somewhat overlooks the day job as a clergyman. In the two-volume ‘life and letters’ published in 1855 by his daughter Saba (a name he invented himself), she &he…
A Child’s History of England
The paths of the Cambridge Library Collection and Charles Dickens have crossed several times – remarkable, given that Dickens is (of course) one of Britain’s greatest novelists, and we don’t publish much fiction. But of the short experim…
The Huguenots
I have mentioned before the industrious Samuel Smiles, Victorian believer in hard work and self-education (otherwise known as pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps) as the way to social improvement and financial prosperity. His 1867 work on the Hug…
The Diary of John Evelyn
One of my vital tools as a scribbler of blogs on books is a little pack of those things – I don’t even know what they are called – which you can stick on to a page to mark a … Continue reading →
Illustrations of Roman London
Charles Roach Smith was born on the Isle of Wight in 1806, and reared by his mother and older sisters after his father’s death when he was six years old. He was educated in Hampshire, and then brought back to … Continue reading →
Tulipomania
It’s really too early in the year for a blog on this topic: galanthophilia is in full swing around the country. But we have just received the first copy of Sweet’s Hortus Britannicus, Or, a Catalogue of Plants, Indigenous, or … Continue…
The Roll Call
…or, to give it its full title, Calling the Roll after an Engagement, Crimea, a large military history painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874, was so popular as an exhibit that a policeman, ‘poor, hot man’, had to … Cont…
Winter Journey
Last Saturday, in ‘CD Review’ on BBC Radio 3, they discussed and played extracts from various new recordings of Schubert song cycles, of which the least satisfactory (in my view) was a Winterreise by a counter-tenor. Not the strangeness of &he…
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JFM Symposia 2017: Lab visits video
In addition to the full-day symposia in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai for the 2017 JFM Symposia in India, editorial board members of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics also conducted lab visits in each of the three cities.…
Cambridge adds to its Open Access journals by converting four subscription titles to Gold OA
This week we are celebrating Open Access Week, where the theme is ‘designing equitable foundations for open knowledge’, the purpose of which is to reflect on a scholarly system in transition, and consider how implementing Open Access (OA) and …
Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature
How is academia represented in children’s literature? This was a question that became important to me in the spring of 2012, whilst reading reams of picture-books with my three young boys, and wondering what they were understanding of their mother&r…
Q&A with Professor Bijay K. Sultanian, author of Gas Turbines
Professor Bijay K. Sultanian participates in a Q&A with us about his book Gas Turbines: Internal Flow Systems Modeling – part of the Cambridge Aerospace Series.…
War in cities: How to treat the disease without killing the patient?
Fighting in cities today causes immense suffering, massive displacement and enormous reconstruction costs. How can devastation on this scale be avoided in the future?…
Analytical Mechanics
Professor Nivaldo A. Lemos takes part in a Q&A "It is hoped that, besides imparting the fundamental notions of analytical mechanics to fill the needs of most students, the book may prepare and persuade some readers to immerse themselves more deeply in…
Quantum Field Theory for Economics and Finance
Author Belal Baaquie discusses his new book: Quantum Field Theory for Economics and Finance: "Quantum field theory (QFT) has been my primary domain of research. I was inspired to look beyond its applications in physics by the work of K. G. Wilson, who app…
Q&A with Professor Holger Babinsky, the new Editor-in-Chief of The Aeronautical Journal
Q. What do you think is distinctive about The Aeronautical Journal? A. The Aeronautical Journal (in its various previous forms) is the longest-running scientific journal devoted to Aeronautics.…
News from Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société
Hot off the presses: The CJLS editorial team is excited to announce the release of its most recent annual special issue: “Decolonizing Labour Law — Contributions to an Emergent Transnational Labour Law,” guest edited by Canada’s le…
JFM Symposia 2017: Video from Bangalore, India
In 2017, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics held their first series of mini-symposia organised by editorial board members from the journal and world-class researchers based in India – notably Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai.…
Related content trials on Cambridge Core
Following the feedback from our customers, we are excited to announce two trials for related content have started on Cambridge Core!
A promising approach to optimize pig genomics
The animal article of the month for November is ‘Genotype imputation from various low-density SNP panels and its impact on accuracy of genomic breeding values in pigs‘ The rapid increase in the world population, which is expecte…