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Surgery and Selfhood: lessons from open humanities publishing

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19 July 202115 July 2021

On 7 June, I participated in the University’s first Open Research Awards, and was lucky enough to win with my case study examining the costs and benefits of open research…Read More >

How to predict the summer weather – magic, miracle and meteorology

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15 July 2021

On July 15 971, the bones of St Swithin were removed from their resting place on the order of Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and placed in a shrine inside the…Read More >

New archaeology finding shows how Muslim cuisine endured in secret despite policing by the Spanish Catholic regime

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5 May 202115 December 2021

Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia known as al-Andalus – a territory that once stretched across most of Spain and Portugal. In 1492,…Read More >

Mastectomies have been performed for over 500 years – yet we still can’t talk about them

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18 September 20208 October 2020

In the middle of the 17th century, Mrs Townsend found a lump in her breast. Diagnosed with breast cancer by a local physician, she underwent a mastectomy without anaesthetic –…Read More >

A sailor’s life for me: early modern #MaritimeArchives

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21 November 201815 November 2021

We tend to picture 17th century sailors as rowdy, hard-drinking, ‘salty sea dogs’ akin to Captain Redbeard Rum from Blackadder. But sailors’ autobiographies from the time tell a different story,…Read More >

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