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From windmill to turbine: Energy, heritage and community in the Garden

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29 April 202630 April 2026

Dr Mara Oliva and colleagues explore the unexpected connections between historic windmills and modern renewable energy in a new installation that can be experienced in person at the Centenary Community...Read More >

Everybody to Kenmure Street: how a feisty Glasgow neighbourhood beat a ‘secret’ immigration raid

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18 March 202628 April 2026

The kind of protests that loom large in the collective imagination tend to be compact and dramatic. Everybody to Kenmure Street, Felipe Bustos Sierra’s energising and inspiring film about a...Read More >

Fall in love Roman-style by playing board games

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13 February 202628 April 2026

For ancient Romans, many of the gestures now associated with Valentine’s Day would be unfamiliar, if not completely puzzling. Love and desire were not confined to a single day, nor...Read More >

Challenging the corporate wellness narrative through art

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27 January 202627 January 2026

Video still from Alan Warburton, Psychometrics, HD CGI video , 2016 – as featured in the forthcoming monograph How Artists Critique Wellness Narratives in the Workplace. Image courtesy of the...Read More >

Is consciousness everywhere?

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21 January 202627 January 2026

Dr Walter Veit (Dept. of Philosophy) discusses the notion of 'panpsychism' and offers some viewpoints on this divisive philosophical concept. Is consciousness everywhere? In every rock and atom? That...Read More >

Shrimps on the barbie: an Australian Christmas

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6 January 20268 January 2026

Dr Walter Veit, lecturer in Philosophy, has written on the topic of animal consciousness and welfare. In this blog, he reflects on shrimp welfare and the 'empathy gap' between us...Read More >

We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals

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3 December 20253 December 2025

Battle of Sluys, 1340, depicted by Jean Froissart (1337-1410) | Wikimedia Commons When you picture medieval warfare, you might think of epic battles and famous monarchs. But what about the...Read More >

Does BBC Civilisations gets its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in

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25 November 202525 November 2025

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and Japan’s Edo Samurais. The show tells these stories through a...Read More >

The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited

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11 November 202513 November 2025

Photo by Eliott Reyna on Unsplash The buzz around the newly announced Children’s Booker has focused on its potential to “tell kids they matter”, as they get their own version...Read More >

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