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Women stood alongside striking miners – it’s time their stories were told

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3 March 2025

When we look back on the 1984-85 miners' strike, we often see pictures of masculinity: men with banners, confrontations at pit gates and proud marches back to work. Four decades...Read More >

Beyond the written word: how the video essay transformed my engagement with history

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26 February 202526 February 2025

Standing before an audience of historians at the American Historical Association (AHA) annual conference in New York City in January 2025, I experienced a moment of both exhilaration and trepidation....Read More >

Just Stop Oil’s protest during The Tempest is an extension of theatre’s radical tradition

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5 February 202525 February 2025

The theatre has long staged and debated society’s most pressing concerns. But when protest moves beyond the script and into the theatre itself, the reaction can shift from applause to...Read More >

AI voice technology used in The Brutalist is nothing new – the backlash is about transparency

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30 January 202530 January 2025

Director Brady Corbet’s stunning new film, The Brutalist, has won three Golden Globes and remains a frontrunner for this year’s Oscars despite a controversy over its use of AI which...Read More >

Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’

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29 January 202518 February 2025

How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think about it every day. Given his frequent references to Roman antiquity, I think we can take...Read More >

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 >

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