Ready to create your personalised summer learning programme? To explore, search for topics, or use the filters to refine by week, number of sessions or subject. Once you click ‘Apply to the programme’, you’ll go through to our student portal. And from there you can start building your own programme of summer courses at Cambridge.
You need to commit to at least one week, and attend courses in the morning and in the afternoon. The dates for this year's programme are:
Week 1: 13 – 19 July
Week 2: 20 – 26 July
Week 3: 27 July – 2 August
Week 4: 3 – 9 August
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British Crime Writing: Conan Doyle, Sayers, Allingham, Hill, & Rankin
Few genres map cultural change as closely as crime writing. Reading Conan Doyle, Sayers, Allingham, Hill, and Rankin, th...
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Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
Oliver Cromwell remains one of the most controversial and complex figures in British history. Was he driven by consisten...
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Emily Brontë’s *Wuthering Heights*
Controversial as well as popular since its first publication, Wuthering Heights deals with issues such as adultery, clas...
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An introduction to astronomy: understanding stars and planets
Since antiquity, people have looked to the skies and wondered about the stars and planets. In this course, we explore ho...
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William Blake and William Wordsworth: the strange, the new, the revolutionary in English poetry
Blake and Wordsworth changed English poetry. Both created a new lyricism while being fiercely political. Both turned poe...
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Castles, palaces and houses of British monarchs
Whether stronghold or private domain, there is a romance to royal dwelling. Fashions, tastes and social mores, ancient a...
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From the last Tsar to the first Soviets: Russia 1894-1924
Between Nicholas II becoming Tsar in 1894, and the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Russia experienced extraordinary uph...
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The Minoans: the first European civilisation?
The Minoan Civilisation (c.3100-1100 BCE), which flourished mainly on the island of Crete, gave us the first truly compl...
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