On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations writes, “The commitment to realizing the rights of persons with disabilities is not only a matter of justice; it…Read More >
Heritage & Creativity
‘Nothing about us without us’ – a transformative approach to inclusive sensory design in museums and heritage sites
To celebrate #purplelightup for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Kate Allen writes about purpleSTARS, a team of artists and technologists with and without learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD). They…Read More >
Deepfakes are being used for good – here’s how
In the second season of BBC mystery thriller The Capture, deepfakes threaten the future of democracy and UK national security. In a dystopia set in present day London, hackers use AI…Read More >
The Book Society – uncovering the history of Britain’s first celebrity book club
Digital and physical book subscription packages soared during lockdown. And according to trade organisation The Bookseller, they look set to continue to do well, despite the cost-of-living crisis. These packages…Read More >
The Archaeology of Iran: the advantages of Open Access publishing
In the second of our blogs for International Open Access Week 2022, Roger Matthews reflects on the publication of The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire,…Read More >
An enslaved woman and her children: a story of maternity, infancy, and death in Northern Brazil in the era of Abolition
Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Reading and Professor of History at the University of São Paulo,…Read More >
How I reunited the most important documents in English theatre history for the first time in 200 years
Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theatre as a financial enterprise and artistic endeavour comes from thousands of manuscript pages in the archive of Philip…Read More >
Faces of War: The Hidden Stories of Female Fighters
In the 2022 Fairbrother Lecture, Chessie Baldwin explores what it means to be a woman in war and how history can warp our view of the contributions women make to…Read More >
Dragomans – tourist industry experts of the nineteenth century
For World Tourism Day 2022, we’re taking a historical perspective. Rachel Mairs writes about dragomans, the accomplished tourism professionals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Rachel is the…Read More >
