An introduction, written by leading authorities, to many of the major modern achievements of Cambridge University.

Introduction; Notes on contributors; 1. The effects of a broken home: Bertrand Russell and Cambridge Ray Monk; 2. I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis and Cambridge English Stephen Heath; 3. Emily Davies, the Sidgwicks and the education of women in Cambridge Gillian Sutherland; 4. Radioastronomy in Cambridge Antony Hewish; 5. Three Cambridge prehistorians Colin Renfrew; 6. John Maynard Keynes Geoffrey Harcourt; 7. Mathematics in Cambridge and beyond Jeremy Gray; 8. James Stuart: engineering, philanthropy and radical politics Paul McHugh; 9. The Darwins in Cambridge Richard Keynes; 10. How the Burgess Shale came to Cambridge; and what happened Simon Conway Morris; 11. Ludwig Wittgenstein P. M. S. Hacker; 12. 'Brains in their fingertips': physics at the Cavendish Laboratory 1880-1940 Jeffrey Hughes; 13. J. N. Figgis and the history of political thought in Cambridge Mark Goldie; 14. Molecular biology in Cambridge M. F. Perutz; 15. James Frazer and Cambridge anthropology Ernest Gellner; 16. Michael Oakeshott Robert Grant.