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In her recent doctoral dissertation, Leah Orr places the rise of the English novel in the broader context of 18th century fiction.

English professor Janine Barchas designed the site to look just as it did in 1796. Illustration by Liberal Arts Information Technology Services (LAITS) AUSTIN, Texas - The first museum dedicated to William Shakespeare reopened today, more than two centuries after shutting its doors.

The hype surrounding the birth of a royal baby is nothing new. Two public lectures (18 and 25 June) will explore the Tudor and Stuart obsession with producing a male heir.

The archaeologist who led the team which uncovered the buried remains of English king Richard III in a Leicester car park is to deliver a free public lecture to mark the 25th anniversary of a medieval research centre at The University of Nottingham. The discovery of the hastily interred bones of the medieval monarch by archaeologists at The University of Leicester made news headlines around the world last summer.

An outstanding group of Old Master and 19th-century paintings - including masterpieces by Poussin, Turner, Monet and Manet - go on show at the National Gallery, London this summer as part of the cele

The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology has received a $2 million gift from UCLA alumna Zaruhy Sara Chitjian to establish the first permanent research program in Armenian archaeology and ethnography at a major American university.

On June 6, 1944, a massive military force arrived on the beaches of Normandy in a surprise invasion intended to overthrow Nazi Germany.

The first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor has been discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal who lived about 120,000 years ago in what is now present-day Croatia. The bone fragment, which comes from the famous archaeological cave site of Krapina, contains by far the earliest bone tumor ever identified in the archaeological record.

The Chicagoan —a Jazz Age magazine fashioned after The New Yorker —entered a new era this week, after the University of Chicago Library launched a website that makes digitized copies of nearly every issue available online for the first time.

The development of the University of Glasgow is being marked with the launch of a new book, a partnership between the University and Historic Scotland.

A doctoral candidate in Penn State's Department of History, John Hoenig has focused his research on the evolution of the tomato industry, adding to our understanding of America's consumer culture.

A doctoral candidate in Penn State's Department of History, John Hoenig has focused his research on the evolution of the tomato industry, adding to our understanding of America's consumer culture.

Watch a replay of the 3 June 2013 webcast marking the 10th anniversary of the launch of ESA's Mars Express.

Sussex historian looks back at the Queen's coronation for TV documentary A BBC TV documentary commemorating the Queen's coronation of 1953 features Sussex historian Dr Claire Langhamer talking about how the Mass Observation Archive (MOA) captured the nation's feelings about the event.

ANN ARBOR-Patients with Spanish surnames in California psychiatric institutions and homes for the developmentally disabled were disproportionately sterilized at rates ranging between 20 to 30 percent in the last century, according to a new University of Michigan study.

A database of Welsh tweets is being used to identify the characteristics of an evolving language.

A knight on horseback in full armour will be the star attraction at an event tomorrow (Wednesday, 29 May) at the Fitzwilliam Museum which boasts one of the country's top collections of armoury.

The Australian National University (ANU) has announced a new scheme that rewards high school students who undertake Indigenous studies.

Like bugs? Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at natural history museums? Interested in helping scientists understand our changing environment? These are just some of the reasons why people should join a project led by the University of California, Berkeley's Essig Museum of Entomology.

Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in early modern human populations, according to new research. The research, published in the journal Nature [21 May], was conducted by a team of scientists from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Barcelona.

Researchers at Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis are incorporating the knowledge and resources of the public into three digital humanities research projects.

Sussex oral historian becomes patron of local community publisher Dr Margaretta Jolly, University of Sussex academic and oral historian, has become a patron of Brighton c o mmunity publisher QueenSpark Books.

Emerging new digital editions at Cambridge are effecting a sea-change in the nature of the scholarly edition, radicalising access to vital source materials and opening up new possibilities for research.

Fern Riddell, a PhD student in the Department of History, has been selected to take part in BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers scheme for 2013.

Resurgam: The Lost Pearl of Plymouth will see gamers using mobile technology to navigate their way around the City’s maritime heritage.

Cambridge archaeologists are illuminating some of the oldest graphic art of the past, by applying some of the most advanced graphic technology of the present.

The presence of Scandinavian-style female jewellery in Britain has overturned the idea that the Viking conquest of England was an all-male affair, suggesting that in fact large numbers of women travelled over from the Scandinavian homelands.

Heritage Lottery award for local history project The past will come to life for communities on the doorstep of a new state-of-the-art historical resource centre - after it won Lottery funding for a local history project.

PA 162/13 The social history of the green open spaces that ring Nottingham's city centre is to be explored as part of a new research project being led by The University of Nottingham.

This Confederate artillery location on Benner's Hill played a key role on day-one at the Battle of Gettysburg.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. University of Illinois English professor Ted Underwood recently wrapped up a research project involving more than 4,200 books. Since that work revealed dramatic shifts in the English language between the 18th and 19th centuries, he's now expanding his research to include more than 470,000 books - almost every English language book written during that era and preserved in a university library.

Nov. 5 marks the 80th anniversary of Parker Brothers' "Monopoly" board game, an Atlantic City-inspired game of chance.

Ahead of his talk at the Hay Festival, Jonathan Haslam discusses his forthcoming history of Soviet intelligence organisations, revealing, among other things, just how unprepared for Operation Barbarossa Stalin was in 1941.

Musician Jesse Rodin leads student singers through the works of Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez in a historically inspired performance featuring digital enhancements by sonic pioneer Ge Wang.

A new agreement will ensure the long-term preservation of the Walters Art Museum's digitized collection of medieval manuscripts and provide new apps for studying them.

Geographic information systems - once limited to the domain of physical geographers - are emerging as a promising tool to study the past, as researchers are discovering for medieval history. What's exciting about GIS is it allows us to move into a different dimension that frees maps from being static snapshots Nicholas de Lange Almost nothing persists to reveal the existence of Jews in the Byzantine Empire - no buildings or synagogues, coins or seals, pots or pans, charms or amulets.

Dr Malachi McIntosh, Lecturer in Postcolonial and Related Literatures, wonders what Britishness is, as Granta magazine publishes its influential, once-per-decade 'Best of Young British Novelists' list.

PA 150/12 Historians from The University of Nottingham are teaming up with local history societies, libraries and museums in Nottinghamshire to draw up a new history of the river Trent.

Sussex academic elected chair of British Association for American Studies A Sussex academic has been elected as the new chair of the British Association for American Studies.

In his short life Francis Willughby immersed himself in the study of natural history yet he has been overshadowed by more famous peers.

Fashion conveys complex messages. The recreation of an outfit taken from one of an extraordinary series of Renaissance portraits reveals how one man made his mark on society.

The violence of everyday life in 19th-century Europe - including murder most foul, handsome bandits, wicked women and huge crowds at executions - is being revealed in all its bloody detail by Cambridge University Library.

30 Apr 2013 Researchers have solved the riddle of how one of Africa's greatest civilisations survived a catastrophic drought which wiped out other famous dynasties.