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Picturesque Engineering: Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges
In partnership with the Fulbright Commission.
In 1819, Thomas Telford and Robert Southey went on a six-week tour of the Scottish Highlands to inspect …
2 years, 11 months ago
Sleep and Mental Health
In recent years, the links between sleep and mental health have been slowly unravelled. We are beginning to understand that not only does mental heal…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Medieval Agricultural Revolution: New Evidence
During the medieval ‘agricultural revolution’, new forms of cereal farming fuelled the exceptionally rapid growth of towns, markets and populations a…
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Landscapes of Roman Britain
We used to think Roman Britain was a largely untamed natural landscape of woodland with occasional opulent villas representing the houses of an alien…
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Does the Adversarial System Serve Us Well?
What is the adversarial tradition in English criminal and civil procedure, and how does it compare with the inquisitorial systems found in some civil…
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The Carbon Cycle Behind Net Zero
What happens to carbon dioxide after we emit it? Half is absorbed within a year or two by plants and the oceans, the rest, in effect, stays in the at…
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Viking Pagan Gods in Britain
The Norse and Danish invaders - commonly called Vikings - who occupied Britain in the ninth and tenth centuries, brought with them their own pagan go…
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The Mathematical Life of Sir Christopher Wren
Christopher Wren, who died 300 years ago this year, is famed as the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral. But he was also Gresham Professor of Astronomy,…
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Portraits of Queen Elizabeth II: The Artists’ Challenges
Scores of painters and photographers over the last seventy years have grappled with the formal portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II from life. These range…
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Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel
Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that belonged to Georgette Heyer and Jean Plaidy. Over recent decades, literary fiction has t…
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