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An AHRC-funded doctoral student has been the first to benefit from being embedded in an innovative theatre company.
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.
An AHRC-funded network project is asking some important questions about the anniversary of the First World War
Our latest feature looks at how British sculptors rose to the challenge of commemorating the fallen of the First World War.
A research project tells the largely forgotten story of the contribution of soldiers from Britain’s former colonies in the two world wars
A research project is looking at how Ancient philosophy can improve our everyday lives.
A Northern Irish theatre company is showing how theatre can humanise the past and hold up a different lens to what we think we know.
Our latest film investigates the Lyminge Archaeological Project – an ambitious programme of archaeology taking place on the village green of Lyminge in Kent.
Our latest feature article looks at what social media tells us about contemporary literature and reading habits.
A look at visual techniques in post-WW2 domestic advice books.
Has any artist’s work been more profoundly shaped by the First World War than the African-American painter Horace Pippin’s?
An image gallery that looks at the marketing of oral contraceptives in Britain from 1961 to 1969.
A major new resource explores the representation and reality of wrongdoing in Spain.
Our latest film demonstrates how AHRC-funded research has underpinned a major exhibition exploring a golden age in China’s history.
An AHRC research project has been investigating how access to the internet is filtered in public libraries.
Our latest film shines a light on the AHRC’s Translating Cultures theme.
An image gallery exploring the emergence of computer art its connections with contemporary digital practices.
An AHRC research project has been exploring how commonly-held perspectives on the First World War have largely been shaped in our schools.
A new app allows visitors to Florence to explore the city's past using modern technology.
The festival featured performances, exhibitions, talks, music, bazaars, workshops, film screenings, games, discussions, pop-up events and more.
This is the latest in a series of short films that shine a light on the ‘A Healthier Scotland’ project.
An image gallery looking at objects as manuscripts in the English archaeological collections of General Pitt-Rivers
An AHRC-funded network is exploring an under-researched topic - pacifism and anti-militarism during and after the First World War.
The latest film from the AHRC looks at ‘Show Me The Money’, an exhibition which charts how the financial world has been imagined in different visual media.
A research project is exploring the meaning of Sufism in the modern age.
Michael Jackson's nuanced relationship with his skin colour is often overlooked. A researcher argues that he used his stage performances and videos to critique racist constructions of blackness.
The latest film from the AHRC examines 'Leeds Stories of the Great War', a project undertaken by the University of Leeds that has been investigating the experiences of people who were living in Leeds during the First World War.
A new project aims to improve knowledge exchange between architects, academics and businesses in the home-building industry.
By AHRC Council member Professor Andrew Thompson.
The Fashion, Innovation, Research and Enterprise (FIREup) project aims to show what methods can best engage those in the fast-moving designer fashion sector, and encourage them to work with academics.
Created in 2012, the four Knowledge Exchange Hubs represent a £16M investment by the AHRC that spans four years.
What was women’s experience of the First World War? Is it possible to generalise at all? An AHRC-funded network has been investigating these and other questions.
The latest film from the Arts and Humanities Research Council shines a light on the recently held Creative Economy Showcase event.
A session at the Cheltenham festival saw an author, a poet and a researcher explore the question of ‘translating China’
Over the course of 35 days in the summer of 2013, the King’s Theatre was closed to the public for a very special make-over. Photographer Ron O’Donnell documented the entire project from the drawing board to the final unveiling.
The latest film from the AHRC examines how research funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council has underpinned a major new exhibition at the National Gallery.
A major new resource is giving us a fuller picture than ever of the mind of Britain’s greatest scientist
A collaborative project is bringing to life an important London memorial
The latest film from the AHRC goes behind the scenes with a creative youth network and a project at the University of the West of England who are working together to produce a graphic novel.
We’ve been celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th birthday week with fun, festivals, exhibitions – and the launch of an improbably epic tour of Hamlet from the Globe in London “to every country in the world” and back.
Why is Brighton such a hotbed of innovation in the digital and creative sector, attracting some of the best and brightest to work in its many small businesses?
A ground breaking BBC documentary calls for a re-evaluation of writer and composer Ivor Gurney.
An image gallery marking the the twentieth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.
