Being Human Festival
Being Human is the UK’s only national festival dedicated to demonstrating the breadth, diversity and vitality of the humanities.
Being Human is the UK’s only national festival dedicated to demonstrating the breadth, diversity and vitality of the humanities.
An AHRC project has revealed how Neolithic settlers travelled across Britain’s western seaways.
For over a decade, the Peer Review College has helped ensure that the best research proposals are those that receive funding. We talked to three of the PRC’s longest-serving members about the work of the College.
Our latest feature article looks at the support that the YMCA gave to soldiers in the Great War.
This exhibition provides new insights into an overlooked form of photography, revealing rich and exciting seams of imagery and offering new perspectives on representation of coastal culture and leisure.
An exhibition is uncovering remarkable stories in the history of colonial law.
Our latest feature article is about a project investigating one of Glasgow's finest creative talents - architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Our latest film examines, in our 10th anniversary year, how a decade of AHRC funding has impacted on a research story than spans over 100 years.
Our first tenth anniversary case study looks at Jenny Woodley, one of the first researchers to benefit from the International Placement Scheme.
The interdisciplinary project Translation Games explores the theory and practice of translation within literature and the fine arts via public workshops, exhibitions and rule-based games.
An AHRC-funded doctoral student has been the first to benefit from being embedded in an innovative theatre company.
Our latest feature looks at a project cataloguing books which were published by Italian Academies from the 16th century onwards, and which have been deposited at the British Library.
A gallery looking at a project that marks the first use of spectral imaging with a nineteenth century artefact - the letters and notes of explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
A gallery bringing together a unique collection of images featuring ornamental designs for textiles and wallpapers from the 19th Century.
This film examines the mutual benefits that can occur when researchers from and arts and humanities, and researchers from the sciences, collaborate.
During the 1990s, many poor women in Peru were forcibly sterilised. Ahead of the presidential election, artists are helping campaigners find justice.
An AHRC-funded project has been using satellite imagery to trace the evolution of the world’s first cities.
This short film looks at the exciting and increasing partnerships between arts and humanities researchers and the video games industry.
Researchers have been using the rules of rhyme to understand popular medieval romance texts and recreate them in authentic musical form.
A research project tells the largely forgotten story of the contribution of soldiers from Britain’s former colonies in the two world wars