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The series of bone biographies indicate that the prestigious university city was a sea of need, with poverty and disease taking their toll.

Bones from a Cambridge cemetery have revealed hereto unknown details about destitute users of a medieval social benefits system based in the city.

Researchers have shone a light on decisions made in the 13th century regarding who was allowed to stay in hospital for long periods of time.

Examination of remains in hospital grounds uses DNA analysis and other disciplines to build ‘biographies’

Experts use the latest techniques to analyse 500 medieval skeletons and shed light on their lives.

Researchers analysed over 400 humans remains from the main cemetery of the hospital of St John the Evangelist in Cambridge .

Researchers have given medieval Cambridge residents the ‘Richard III treatment’ to reveal the hard-knock lives of those who lived in the city during the Universitys earliest years.

We’ve sorted through hundreds of books to find the perfect picks for the fashionistas, culture vultures and even the bah-humbuggers in your life

Barbara Alice Robb of Arbroath, who served with the Women's Royal Air Force during the Second World War, has died aged 100.

The British Pop Archive has put a call out to complete its collection of City Life magazines.