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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 >

‘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 >

Getting to net zero will require inclusive landscape decisions

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1 April 202223 February 2023

We are all aware of the pressing need to slow climate change and the contribution that ‘net zero’ policies have to make. Here landscape geographer Eirini Saratsi argues that getting…Read More >

An English Literature lecturer experiments with film, philosophy and…sniffing

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19 January 202218 January 2022

I recently completed the production of my first film. I started work on it last year following a successful bid to a Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) funding…Read More >