Heritage & Creativity

20 November 2024

Auction houses still sell human remains – and it’s time they stopped

31 October 2024

The supernatural beliefs of medieval people – from elves and fairies to abductions and the undead

23 October 2024

AI could transform film visual effects. But first, the technology needs to address copyright debate

30 September 2024

‘Thornback’ keeps trending – here’s why this old-fashioned term is derogatory to young, single women

19 July 2024

Reflections on the Digital Humanities Community of Practice’s Inaugural Conference

10 July 2024

A study of early woodworking shows the sophistication of Neanderthal technologies

9 July 2024

Women firsts in Cabinet, a long view

5 July 2024

Aphrodite signified more than beauty – five other realms in which the Greek goddess also reigned

2 July 2024

Transforming cultures for public engagement

27 June 2024

Being Humanities: an event to launch Reading’s School of Humanities

10 June 2024

Pirates and politicians: what a 300-year-old book about the most notorious buccaneers reveals about British politics

23 May 2024

How Neanderthal language differed from modern human – they probably didn’t use metaphors

11 April 2024

Exploring Digital Humanities: Meet Mara Oliva

26 March 2024

Making Fields: Women in Publishing

20 March 2024

Poems for World Poetry Day

14 February 2024

What a new plan to save the UK’s churches says about their purpose in society

7 February 2024

How the social structures of Nazi Germany created a bystander society

5 February 2024

Turkish Literature in English: tracing the history of translation

13 December 2023

Our most read articles of 2023

20 November 2023

Children’s Literature, ecocriticism and the case of Tarka the Otter

16 November 2023

Can language models like ChatGPT use words meaningfully?

26 October 2023

Straw bale hung from London’s Millennium Bridge to comply with ancient law – just part of the River Thames’ long, legal history

12 October 2023

The Sycamore Gap: four other significant tree destructions from history

6 October 2023

Black History Month – the history department workshop

27 September 2023

What is AI art? An interview with Eleanor Crook

25 September 2023

Libya flood disaster: scale of the catastrophe must bring the two warring factions together

30 August 2023

The powerful and personal ways in which landscapes matter

25 August 2023

Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends – from gurning to stereoscopy

26 July 2023

Lúcia Nagib elected Fellow of the British Academy

26 July 2023

Ian Rutherford elected Fellow of the British Academy

25 July 2023

Actors are really worried about the use of AI by movie studios – they may have a point

2 June 2023

How do we talk about our beliefs? Investigating the term ‘justify’ using corpus analysis

30 May 2023

Selecting my top children’s books for the BBC ‘One Hundred Top Children’s Books’ list

12 April 2023

Why some people lose their accents but others don’t – linguistic expert

23 March 2023

The life and work of Zoologist Nellie B. Eales

14 March 2023

‘Piety, Sobriety and Variety’: the first three female MPs to arrive at Westminster

11 March 2023

Testing, testing: think about the instructions

8 March 2023

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: working-class writer, social activist and environmentalist

2 March 2023

Bookshops: a World Book Day appreciation

6 February 2023

Deep Fake Neighbour Wars: ITV’s comedy shows how AI can transform popular culture

1 February 2023

Love stories are for everyone – the Rainbow Chapter of the Romantic Novelists’ Association

31 January 2023

Showcasing the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme

30 January 2023

Celebrating National Storytelling Week with mathematical stories

27 January 2023

On Holocaust Memorial Day

23 January 2023

How workplace wellness initiatives conflict with real wellbeing – and how art challenges this

11 January 2023

Vietnam war: how US involvement has influenced foreign policy decisions over 50 years

5 January 2023

The history of chocolate: when money really did grow on trees

21 December 2022

Our most talked about publications of 2022

20 December 2022

His Dark Materials: how the small-screen adaptation deals with the novel’s big ideas

9 December 2022

Gender and the creative labour market in Australia and the UK

1 December 2022

Celebrating disabled creativity on International Day of Persons with Disabilities

1 December 2022

‘Nothing about us without us’ – a transformative approach to inclusive sensory design in museums and heritage sites

8 November 2022

Deepfakes are being used for good – here’s how

28 October 2022

The Book Society – uncovering the history of Britain’s first celebrity book club

27 October 2022

The Archaeology of Iran: the advantages of Open Access publishing

25 October 2022

Realist Cinema as World Cinema: the advantages of Open Access publishing

12 October 2022

An enslaved woman and her children: a story of maternity, infancy, and death in Northern Brazil in the era of Abolition

7 October 2022

How I reunited the most important documents in English theatre history for the first time in 200 years

30 September 2022

Faces of War: The Hidden Stories of Female Fighters

27 September 2022

Dragomans – tourist industry experts of the nineteenth century

26 September 2022

Soviet monuments are being toppled – this gives the spaces they occupied a new meaning

22 August 2022

A wider lens on film making

1 June 2022

Is it wrong to steal from large corporations? A philosopher debates the ethics

26 May 2022

Black British Women’s Theatre: Encountering intersectionality through the archives

20 May 2022

Beyond the Numbers: Reflections on REF 2021

9 May 2022

Sport and the anti-apartheid movement: evidence from the archives

27 April 2022

So here we are again… sex and misogyny in Parliament

15 April 2022

How new approaches to landscape history can help democratise landscape decision-making

30 March 2022

Accessible research for all: what UKRI’s new Open Access policy means for us

28 February 2022

Curious Kids: why is February shorter than every other month?

23 February 2022

Breaking the ice: The power of networks

11 February 2022

CentAUR in 2021

2 February 2022

Mapping the Open Research landscape at the University of Reading

26 January 2022

“My father was a wandering European”: Triple loyalties in Brexit Britain – British, Jewish, European?

19 January 2022

An English Literature lecturer experiments with film, philosophy and…sniffing

24 December 2021

Our most popular papers of 2021

8 December 2021

Collaborating with Industry: A Knowledge Transfer Partnership could be the answer

2 November 2021

Brexit fish wars: history explains why France and the UK get so angry about access to the seas

27 October 2021

“The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema” leading the path for archives, art and research at the Alt + Shift + Archive Symposium

27 October 2021

Exploring the The Diasporic Literary Archives Network

22 October 2021

Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction Bryan Cheyette at the Cheltenham Literature Festival

15 October 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize, and a Challenge to White Fragility

13 October 2021

To err is human – or is it?

22 September 2021

Research into action: learning from REF2021

30 July 2021

Climate Change Archaeology: Building resilience in the world’s coastal wetlands

19 July 2021

Surgery and Selfhood: lessons from open humanities publishing

15 July 2021

How to predict the summer weather – magic, miracle and meteorology

5 July 2021

Cross-disciplinary Conversations on Caring in a Crisis

30 June 2021

Mispronunciation: why you should stop correcting people’s mistakes

14 June 2021

Beckett our Contemporary

26 May 2021

Trouble in Headlines

17 May 2021

What Can a Dog Called Margarita Teach us About Ancient Rome?

17 May 2021

Broken Futures project: podcast, walking tour and exhibition

5 May 2021

New archaeology finding shows how Muslim cuisine endured in secret despite policing by the Spanish Catholic regime

26 April 2021

Shulie, and the place of the feminist past in the feminist present

2 April 2021

The Long Read: This 400-year-old botched nose job shows how little our feelings about transplants have changed

22 March 2021

What can the arts show us about climate change?

12 March 2021

Third How It Is Samuel Beckett Symposium

3 March 2021

A tale told in timecodes

26 February 2021

LGBT+ History Month: Broken Futures project

24 February 2021

Impressionism’s sibling rivalry

8 February 2021

The Dig on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal – according to an archaeologist

27 January 2021

Teaching Holocaust Testimonies

20 January 2021

James Joyce’s Ulysses is an anti-stream of consciousness novel

11 January 2021

Connecting through Collections Histories

18 December 2020

Our most popular papers of 2020

17 December 2020

International Migrants’ Day 2020

16 December 2020

Partnerships for global development

1 December 2020

Christmas coming early: there’s never been a right time to put up the decorations

26 November 2020

Ethiopia’s troubled history provides clues to why an all-out civil war is possible

24 November 2020

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme Showcase 2020

11 November 2020

The foreign policy legacy that Donald Trump leaves Joe Biden

29 October 2020

The different meaning of HMT Empire Windrush

22 October 2020

Black History Month: ‘A visit to the countryside is always accompanied by a feeling of unease; dread.’

2 October 2020

Welcome to Black History Month

18 September 2020

Mastectomies have been performed for over 500 years – yet we still can’t talk about them

10 September 2020

Taking Publishers’ Archives Online: The Modernist Archives Publishing Project

7 September 2020

Happy Days – creating art from archives

20 August 2020

In refugee camps as well as lockdown, gardening helps pass time in limbo

6 August 2020

‘I don’t care about Hitler’: Wiley and the rise of antisemitism

30 July 2020

Pandemic landscapes

27 July 2020

A year in the life of the earliest Europeans

13 July 2020

Children aren’t starting puberty younger, medieval skeletons reveal

2 July 2020

Archiving Youth Cultures

22 June 2020

Looting of antiquities has increased under lockdown – here’s how we’re working to prevent this in Iraq

21 May 2020

Walking, talking and showing off – a history of Roman gardens

14 May 2020

Rewilding: lessons from the medieval Baltic crusades

7 May 2020

Five eye-catching graphic novels that define the genre

1 May 2020

New websites to boost Collections-based research

22 April 2020

Business as usual post-pandemic? Reshaping relations between the state and the private sector in light of COVID-19

21 April 2020

Talk of war in COVID-19 coverage may be hiding testing failings

16 April 2020

Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading

18 March 2020

Prizes for outstanding early career research

13 March 2020

Annie Ure: Trowelblazer

6 March 2020

The medieval roots of modern weather forecasts

24 February 2020

How the world’s largest Samuel Beckett collection came to Reading

31 January 2020

Roman Catholic priests have been celibate for a thousand years – but this could change

15 January 2020

REF is coming – grab every chance to promote your research

7 January 2020

What can archaeology tell us about medieval medical care?

20 December 2019

Our most popular papers of 2019

6 December 2019

Celebrating 100 years of women in Parliament

26 November 2019

In pictures: Pelican books by design

3 November 2019

Free style: the real meaning of the Springboks’ victory dance

31 October 2019

Picturing science for children: the power of Marie Neurath’s designs

12 October 2019

A complex and controversial new saint

27 September 2019

In pictures: stimulating senses at the Berkshire show

9 September 2019

Finding the fires of early humans

28 August 2019

Seven things you probably didn’t know about life in medieval castles

15 August 2019

The Jungle Book: more than just an imperialist tale for children?

11 July 2019

Ripped, Torn & Cut: new book on how fanzines shaped punk

3 July 2019

In pictures: researchers at work

19 June 2019

Mohamed Morsi: death of Egypt’s former president shows deep state was always going to triumph

24 May 2019

Objects and death: three burials across time

20 May 2019

Fragments in the archive: stories of slavery, sexual violence and testimony

1 May 2019

Populism, imperial insects and Cold War era children’s books – new University Research Fellowships awarded in arts, humanities and social sciences

23 April 2019

Human agency: are we really in control of what we do?

16 April 2019

Royal death and burial: Reading Abbey in context

2 April 2019

‘I, Sheep’: a woolly perspective on the world

26 March 2019

Meghan Markle: reports of her ‘British accent’ sound like journalistic licence, say linguistics experts

25 March 2019

THE LONG READ: From social media’s role in the Arab Spring to New Generation Thinker – Q&A with Dr Dina Rezk

21 March 2019

Gerard Unger: a life in letterforms

19 March 2019

Prizes awarded to outstanding early career researchers

15 March 2019

Taking Reading research to Westminster

8 March 2019

British Science Week round-up

20 February 2019

Space Blitz: discovering the hidden impacts of WWII bombing raids

12 February 2019

From Brexit to the peasants’ revolt: what does it mean to be a ‘rebel’?

5 February 2019

Using design to beat bad bugs in Rwanda

28 January 2019

Business as usual: Zimbabwe in crisis

23 January 2019

The dark side of Drake

10 January 2019

The pope is never wrong: a history of papal infallibility in the Catholic Church

8 January 2019

Nas Daily: Palestinian blogger delivers upbeat message to millions – but he can afford to

28 December 2018

Our most popular papers of 2018

28 November 2018

THE LONG READ: Nancy Astor – pioneering, problematic and feminist by default

21 November 2018

A sailor’s life for me: early modern #MaritimeArchives

14 November 2018

Why we need to stop taking disfigurement at face value

13 November 2018

Parliament Week 2018: how Reading research is shaping policy

8 November 2018

Ayn Rand from the left: academics gather to examine Trump’s favourite author

1 November 2018

Exploring the effect of WW2 on three generations – Silence comes to Reading

31 October 2018

War of the witches: women are accused while men claim victim status

19 October 2018

Opening up new opportunities with Open Access

17 October 2018

From veterinary tools to video games – the MERL redevelopment two years on

8 October 2018

We want your views on public engagement with research

27 September 2018

‘Far right’ groups may be diverse – but here’s what they all have in common

27 September 2018

World War II bombing raids in London and Berlin struck the edge of space, our new study reveals

22 September 2018

Is the Trump administration getting East Asia right, or just confusing it?

7 September 2018

A simple way to inform parliamentary debate – submit your research to POST now!

28 August 2018

Zimbabwe’s Second Republic – What future?

24 August 2018

Party preparations not halted by Zimbabwe’s court ruling

23 August 2018

Kofi Annan: his legacy is not perfect, but he helped improve millions of lives

22 August 2018

Zimbabwe is still in trouble, but it’s under too little pressure to change

21 August 2018

User not found: an immersive performance that is changing the face of theatre

10 August 2018

Digital archive of ‘Punk in the East’ puts the pogo back into punk

19 July 2018

American tennis, coconut shies and Millicent Fawcett – a garden party I’d like to have attended.

28 June 2018

Sick of Sickness! Recovering a Happier History

14 June 2018

Life-changing research: shortlist announced for Research Engagement and Impact Awards 2018

11 June 2018

Global projects win funding among latest research awards

16 May 2018

How Ludwig Wittgenstein’s secret boyfriend helped deliver the philosopher’s seminal work

10 May 2018

There will be another Alfie Evans. Experts need to engage

9 May 2018

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 7

1 May 2018

‘Engage openly’ during elections, academics urged

10 April 2018

How an ‘absolute unit’ of a tweet catapulted one rural life museum into the spotlight

6 April 2018

Civilised Reading

5 April 2018

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 6

4 April 2018

Egypt’s Sisi dashed his country’s hopes – and what support he has is eroding

29 March 2018

Glastonbury: archaeology is revealing new truths about the origins of British Christianity

29 March 2018

Protecting Iraq’s cultural heritage

26 March 2018

Medics should not be forced to do procedures they object to on ethical grounds

22 March 2018

Have your say on Open Research: the future, or fool’s charter?

21 March 2018

Glastonbury Abbey uncovered

21 March 2018

Global warming, light switch molecules and malaria – early career researchers net prizes

8 March 2018

On International Women’s Day, female academics are among research funding winners

6 March 2018

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 5

2 March 2018

Bringing our immigration history to life

1 March 2018

Old school: lessons from the ancient classroom

22 February 2018

Communicating Suffrage and Citizenship with Reside Dance

14 February 2018

Grisly ‘love poem’ anniversary allows reflection on changing attitudes towards women

12 February 2018

Collections based research

9 February 2018

On high AALERT: can art help research into nature?

5 February 2018

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 4

5 February 2018

Designing information for public understanding

17 January 2018

Harold’s homecoming?

15 January 2018

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 2

4 December 2017

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 1

30 November 2017

Poems about places and pasts: an extract from ‘On Magnetism’

22 November 2017

Dramatic by design

17 November 2017

The First World War in Biscuits, and advising the BBC

10 November 2017

Lost and Found: Excavating the world’s first farmers

2 November 2017

Bringing Tropicália to life at the Tate Modern

23 October 2017

Whetting the appetite for edible archives

18 October 2017

Man Booker Prize winner could open floodgates for American novelists

16 October 2017

Sacred Heritage explored at prestigious archaeology lectures – now available to watch online

11 October 2017

Delivery of affordable housing negatively impacted by planning policy

9 October 2017

Why are languages missing from the Sustainable Development Goals?

25 September 2017

1917-2017: the social legacy of a socialist revolution

18 September 2017

Sir Peter Hall’s encounters with Godot

4 September 2017

From persecution to Pride: Share your memories of fight for LGBT+ equality

28 July 2017

How diverse was Roman Britain?

18 July 2017

Jane Austen on money: How new face of £10 note should be remembered

7 June 2017

‘Shakespeare and us’ – University professor to give prestigious Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture at the Globe theatre

5 June 2017

Philosopher Alain Badiou coming to UoR film conference this November

12 May 2017

Sacred Heritage to be explored at prestigious archaeology lectures

28 April 2017

Talking about Open Research at the University of Reading

25 April 2017

Research Engagement and Impact Awards 2017: Enter now!

24 April 2017

English Language Day: 100 years of the English Pronouncing Dictionary

28 March 2017

Prizes awarded for outstanding research outputs

15 March 2017

Reading wins £3.3m in research grants in January

10 March 2017

Votes for women – and £5m to celebrate, 100 years on

9 March 2017

Weather forecasters face storm of criticism – so is it time for a new look?

8 March 2017

Tsar wars: when International Women’s Day led to real revolution

28 February 2017

Book look: ‘Medieval Archaeology’ edited by Reading archaeologists

28 February 2017

What reproducibility crisis? Open research may have the answers

6 February 2017

Reading secures £3.9m in research awards in December

10 September 2013

Can we mend broken hearts?

16 April 2013

Books are not absolutely dead things…

4 January 2013

Celebrating 60 years of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’

13 August 2012

The fading voices from Reading’s past

31 July 2012

The invisibility of language intermediaries

25 April 2012

The good in ‘bad science’

9 March 2012

Roman fragments and digital modelling shed light on urban spectacle

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