University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom.

Cambridge University in literature & popular culture

Fiction

• Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale takes place at Soler Halle - another name for King's Hall, which later became part of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Porterhouse Blue and its sequel Grantchester Grind feature Porterhouse, a fictional Cambridge College.
• The Glittering Prizes by Frederic Raphael.
• Chariots of Fire, 1981 film
• Doctor Who episode Shada written by Douglas Adams
• Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Darkness at Pemberley by T. H. White
• The Masters and the Affair by C.P. Snow (features an unnamed fictional college, partly based on his own college, Christ's)
• All Sorts and Conditions of Men by Sir Walter Besant
• For the sake of Elena by Elizabeth George.
• High Table, Lower Orders BBC Radio serial broadcast in 2005 based in a college with some resemblance to Magdalene.
• The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Eskimo Day is a 1996 BBC TV drama, written by Jack Rosenthal, and starring Maureen Lipman, Tom Wilkinson, and Alec Guinness, about the relationship between parents and teenagers during an admissions interview day at Queen's College, Cambridge. There was also a 1997 sequel, Cold Enough for Snow.
• The final episode of ' features the android character Data as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in his Cambridge college rooms, in a hypothetical future created by the omnipotent alien Q. An establishing location shot shows a futuristic version of the Cambridge University skyline around the year 2395 - the University apparently has acquired a monorail system by this year.
• Civilization (computer game) - a classic turn-based strategy video game by Sid Meier features "Isaac Newton's College" as a Wonder of the World - this could be a reference to Cambridge University as a whole or to Trinity College, Cambridge specifically.
• Will Bailey, a White House staffer on The West Wing, a US television drama series, claimed to have been a "former president of the Cambridge Union on a Marshall Scholarship".

Non-fiction

• A concise history of the University of Cambridge, by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521439787, ISBN 9780521439787
• A history of the University of Cambridge, by Christopher N.L. Brooke, Cambridge University Press, 4 volumes, 1988-2004, ISBN 0521328829, ISBN 052135059X, ISBN 0521350603, ISBN 052134350X
• Bedders, bulldogs and bedells: a Cambridge glossary, by Frank Stubbings, Cambridge 1995 ISBN 0521479789
• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/hatenkou.html, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb201396.htm, Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1411612566. This book includes information about the wooden spoon and the university in the 19th century as well as the Japanese students.
• Teaching and Learning in 19th century Cambridge, by J. Smith and C. Stray (ed.), Boydell Press, 2001 ISBN 0851157831
• The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton, Robert Willis, Edited by John Willis Clark, 1988. Three volume set, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521358515
• The Cambridge Apostles: A History of Cambridge University's Elite Intellectual Secret Society, by Richard Deacon, Cassell, 1985, ISBN 0947728139