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Notre-Dame: Cathedral of Light

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23 December 202419 December 2024

Notre-Dame before and after the fire in 2019. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Professor Lindy Grant, Department of History, reflects on the reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral after a fire destroyed parts of the...Read More >

How The Cure went back to their gothic roots for their new number one album

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29 November 202421 November 2024

Songs of A Lost World, The Cure At Shrewsbury train station, there is a poster advertising The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World. The confident, monochrome minimalism of...Read More >

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

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20 November 202419 November 2024

In early October, The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, listed several lots of human remains for sale, including skulls from west Africa and shrunken heads from South America. They...Read More >

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

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31 October 202413 November 2024

A siren and a centaur, taken from a 1277 manuscript. Courtesy of the Getty Open Content program. Medieval people have a reputation for being superstitious – and many of the...Read More >

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

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23 October 20247 November 2024

James Cameron. Photo by Steve Jurvetson, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0. While many people in the creative industries are worrying that AI is about to steal their jobs, Oscar-winning film...Read More >

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

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30 September 202426 September 2024

A young woman who remained unmarried by 26 or 27 was ungraciously called a 'thornback'. Highland Council, CC BY-NC-SA I am 27 years old; I have no money and no...Read More >

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

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19 July 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bringing significant changes to various fields of knowledge, and the Digital Humanities (DH) are also experiencing this shift. Advanced computational techniques are transforming traditional research methods,...Read More >

A study of early woodworking shows the sophistication of Neanderthal technologies

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10 July 20249 July 2024

Around 300,000 years ago, early humans were busy around a lakeshore in what is now a disused lignite mine in the town of Schöningen, Germany. The climate was cooling, and...Read More >

Women firsts in Cabinet, a long view

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9 July 20245 August 2024

Labour have won a historic landslide in the 2024 general election, but it is also a historic moment for women in parliament as Rachel Reeves becomes the first female Chancellor...Read More >

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

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5 July 20244 July 2024

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In an overarching way, she was the goddess of consensus, as in any interaction between consenting...Read More >