This summer school takes full advantage of Cambridge's exceptional galleries and buildings, and learning is enhanced by field trips to major collections in London, and to gardens, houses and cathedrals in the region. Courses are taught by leading art historians and colour scientists. The program offers the opportunity of detailed study for students or teachers of art history. The program specializes in British and European history. Topics range from Ancient Greece, Reformation, English Revolution and Cromwell, Cold War Superpowers, British Raj, Puritanism in America and Britain, Occupied Europe in World War II, and many more.
Participants attend two daily classes on specialized topics chosen from a range of twelve.
In addition, morning and evening plenary lecture series features eminent historians from Cambridge and elsewhere, speaking both about their own research and their approaches to history. The summer school will be of value to students or teachers of history at all levels. The English Literature Summer School offers a wide variety of courses covering literary topics from the Middle ages to the present. Topics include Chaucer, Hardy, Augustan satire, Anglo Saxon English, post-imperial novelists, poetry of Pound and Eliot, life and times of Oscar Wilde, and many more. Plenary lectures, delivered by distinguished scholars and critics, will discuss other topics related to the wide field of English literature.