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Tracing rebellion in the chemistry of Roman coins

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8 September 2025

Kathryn Murphy, Data Scientist on the REMADE project, explains how the changing silver content of ancient coins tells a tumultuous story of political upheaval in the third-century Roman Empire. In...Read More >

Big Roman shoes discovered near Hadrian’s Wall – but they don’t necessarily mean big Roman feet

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24 July 202525 July 2025

A contemporary sculptural depiction of Roman footware | Álvaro Peréz Villarino, Wikimedia Commons, CC 2.0 Excavations at the Roman fort of Magna near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland in north east...Read More >

Small penises are still the butt of the joke in film and TV

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21 July 202521 July 2025

Gen V (2023-present), the recent iteration of the wildly successful superhero satire The Boys (2019), thrives on scenes of bodily outrage. One such episode concerns a young woman who is...Read More >

We all have a role to play in tackling hate speech – it’s not just about laws

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18 June 202525 July 2025

In this blog for the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, Federico Faloppa, Professor of Language and Discrimination, discusses why tackling the rising tide of hate speech requires a global...Read More >

Celebrating class and social mobility at the University of Reading

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12 June 202519 June 2025

Novelist Ethel Carnie Holdsworth | Credit: Helen Brown The second Thursday of June is Social Mobility awareness day and I was delighted to be part of the Department for Education’s...Read More >

Afraid of the dark? A silent night without nature is much scarier

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2 June 202519 June 2025

Tina O’Connell, Associate Professor in Art at the University of Reading, and Neal White, Professor of Art/Science at the University of Westminster, explain how artists and scientists are joining forces...Read More >

UK film and TV boom hides a crisis that threatens the whole industry – new report

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21 May 202521 May 2025

Judging by the recent success of UK productions like Adolescence and Baby Reindeer, you might assume that the UK film and television industry is flourishing. And indeed, spending on production...Read More >

Sparks of innovation: reflections on the Creative Entrepreneur in Residence Programme

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8 May 202512 May 2025

Back in early 2022, we welcomed Tim Powell to Reading as our Creative Entrepreneur in Residence. In this role, Tim would work with colleagues across the Heritage & Creativity research...Read More >

Tove Jansson’s Moomin books explore the power of adventure and transformation

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29 April 202530 April 2025

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood. In the book, Moomintroll and his friends embark on a journey to find...Read More >

Reading the world differently: eight books to broaden your mind

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28 April 202528 April 2025

Expand your reading list this spring and summer with some thought-provoking new works! Throughout the past month, our #readingatReading campaign has explored recently published books by University of Reading researchers....Read More >

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