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Punts, proofs and Nobel prizes: Cambridge pairs medieval courts with the lab that split the atom and decoded DNA. Genius is its local industry, on screen as in life. The Theory of Everything loved here; The Man Who Knew Infinity calculated here. Open Cambridge on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 68 books and 18 movies set in Cambridge.
The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Educated
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her…
Maurice
After his lover rejects him Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Growing up poor in Madras India Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor G.H. Hardy.
The Handmaid's Tale
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed…
Hawking
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963 and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is…
A Brief History of Time
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends family classmates and peers are interviewed not only…
Hawking
The extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous contemporary scientist told in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life this is an intimate and moving journey into…
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the…
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's…
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