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Historians - and husband and wife - Professor Kevin Passmore and Dr Garthine Walker, of the School of History, Archaeology and Religion have been awarded prestigious Leverhulme Research Fellowships to advance their fields of research.

A touching love letter from a young Frenchwoman to her sweetheart Tommy at the front has been unearthed by the University of Leeds.

14 Feb 2014 Newly discovered details of the funeral of a protester trampled to death by a police horse in 1887, have turned the event into one of Victorian time's most significant moments, according to a University of Manchester historian.

AUSTIN, Texas - The Harry Ransom Center , a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, presents the exhibition "Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions" Feb.

Studies of old rubbish dumps and dirty dishes have revealed that, 6,000 years ago, ancient Britons gave up their passion for fish to begin a love affair with milk. The research by archaeologists and chemists from Cardiff University and the University of Bristol is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B .

As Valentine's Day approaches, UQ Chair of Classics and Ancient History Professor Alastair Blanshard turns to the past to offer classic lines to help melt the heart of your valentine.

Exploring the impact of innovation in technology during the Great War and shedding light on how people resisted the war are just two of many insights offered by new University of Leeds research.

07 Feb 2014 More needs to be done to understand Hitler's infamous autobiographical manifesto "Mein Kampf” to avoid a resurgence of anti-Semitism when its copyright expires in 2016, according to a holocaust historian.

Historians from Lancaster University are inviting local people to help flesh out the stories of more than a thousand men from the city who died in World War One.

Originally setting out to explore the changes in America's discussion about race as a result of Barack Obama's election as president, Michele Norris' 2010 book, "The Grace of Silence ," became an "accidental memoir.

Art, turned on its ear Iconic Western works are recast to reflect racial realities generally ignored before P hotographer, curator, and arts scholar Deborah Willis , who normally hangs her beret at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will be in residence at Harvard this semester.

New research by cultural history expert Fred Turner reveals how changing ideals about American democracy in the 1940s and '50s planted the seeds of rebellion that flowered in the counterculture of the 1960s.

The University of Birmingham is hosting a series of events to mark Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans (LGBT) History Month.

The medieval monk Jocelin of Furness has been little studied by historians - now a project investigating his work and its context is transforming what we know about past cultural identities in England's north-west.

An inspirational lecture by a UQ history professor almost 20 years ago has led to a regular archaeology segment starting on 612 ABC Brisbane radio this week.

University of Washington Patricia Ebrey is a UW professor of history and the author of a number of books about Chinese history and culture.

The Govan Stones Archaeology at University of Glasgow Prof Stephen Driscoll A half-tonne early-medieval gravestone has left Scotland for the first time in its 1,100 year history, moving to London for the opening of a new exhibition at the British Museum.

Why Queen Victoria was not amused by the Royal Pavilion - art historian helps BBC tell story of train travel University of Sussex art historian Alexandra Loske will be making a guest appearance in the popular BBC 2 TV series Great British Railway Journeys this Friday (31 January).

Beyond Auschwitz: Mother and daughter discuss legacy of Holocaust at University memorial event An acclaimed musician whose talent kept her alive in a Nazi death camp is the guest speaker at the University of Sussex Holocaust Memorial Day event on 30 January.

I t's a tight fit, so it's tough to get in and out without getting covered with dust. That's the point, of course, if not to the bees crawling in search of nectar, then at least to the Salvia blossoms seeking to dust the bees with pollen.

In the digital age, smartphones are ubiquitous with 24-hour rolling news, their camera lens contributing to the narrative of world events.

After decades of scholarship denying that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children, new research has found 'overwhelming' evidence that this ancient civilisation really did carry out the practice. A collaborative paper by academics from institutions across the globe, including Oxford University, finds that Carthaginian parents ritually sacrificed young children as an offering to the gods.

Professors Ed Baptist and Louis Hyman discuss the rise of industrialized labor after the Civil War for their MOOC, "American Capitalism: A History.

To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the acclaimed historian and author Margaret MacMillan will give a series of public lectures exploring the context in which international tensions led to a mobilisation of forces.

We go up and down them all the time - but seldom do we think about their historical development as elements of architecture.

Time chasers preserve and share the history of South Florida's Black communities. By Sarah Block? Special to UM News CORAL GABLES, Fla.

Lawrence Hendra has been pursuing his passion for antique works of art since buying a piece from a flea market in his native Cornwall, and then making a profit on it, at the age of 13.

Cultural historian pulls back the duvet to reveal changes in the British family home University of Sussex cultural historian Professor Ben Highmore invites readers back through their own front doors for his new book.

A search-and-rescue organization that saved thousands of Cuban rafters adrift in the Florida Straits has donated its extensive archives to the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection.

An exhibition of the works of James McNeill Whistler is about to embark on a tour of the US and Japan after a successful debut in the UK closes this Sunday (12 January).

Fresh analysis of forensic and other historical data by University of Glasgow scientists has cast new light on the fate of Captain Sir John Franklin's Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage nearly 170 years ago. The disappearance of the "Franklin expedition", which set off in 1845, made international headlines and led to the biggest search and rescue mission in history.

Analysis of traffic on the social media site Twitter which includes #indyref shows the Yes campaign has more followers and a wider network of active tweeters spreading their campaign message than Better Together.

A new biography of Darcus Howe, which offers the first detailed history of Britain's little-known Black Power movement, claims that the racism it fought is being overlooked in modern narratives about the nation's past.

This February, the Yale School of Architecture (YSOA) will launch its 2014 exhibition program with "Archaeology of the Digital," a look at the foundations of digital architecture in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

T he Harvard Map Collection is one of the oldest and largest in the world, with more than 500,000 cartographic items.

Dr William John Lyons, senior lecturer in the University of Bristol's Department of Religion and Theology, has secured a three year Leverhulme Trust project grant worth £244,911 for his project 'Scripture, dissent and Deaf space: St Saviour's, Oxford Street'.

In the margins of historical accounts and the dusty corners of family archives, Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs uncovers stories long kept hidden: those of African Americans who passed as white, from the late 18 th century to the present.

" The exhibition reveals a fascinating picture of surgeons rotating between service at the front line and civilian practice and conspicuous bravery of newly qualified doctors " A retired doctor is ap

The examination of mental disorders would seem to be the almost exclusive domain of psychiatrists and psychologists, not humanities scholars.

History professor Pamela Smith started college thinking she would be a chemist. Then she took a course on the history and philosophy of science and "was just bowled over." "I had never imagined that science had a history," said Smith, who helped create Columbia's new Center for Science and Society.

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a two-year, $195,000 project to arrange, describe, selectively digitize and share its PEN records.

Government House under construction in Calcutta Researchers at the University of Liverpool are investigating how Indian cities have acted as a cultural gateway to the rest of the world over the centuries.

MIT anthropologist finds that after Soviet domination, a rebirth of shamanism helped Mongolia rewrite its own history.