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Details of how to bury those who died from the plague and parish council notes and accounts are just two of the intriguing documents uncovered by Stuart Jennings from the University of Warwick during

A two and a half year transatlantic search by researchers at The University of Manchester for the remains of thousands of Nubian skeletons will culminate in a fascinating workshop later this month. The project has been led Professor Rosalie David of The University of Manchester and Professor Norman MacLeod of The Natural History Museum.

Peta Bulmer, a Ph.D student from the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is carrying out a study on the use of iPads for fieldwork. In a joint project between the  Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology  and the Computing Services Department , Peta will explore the use of mobile devices, whilst working 'in the field' on a number of sites across Europe, over the summer.

Peta Bulmer, a Ph.D student from the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is carrying out a study on the use of iPads for fieldwork.

An international symposium at the University of Sydney will explore the comic world of Japanese Manga as a medium for political expression.

Leading sports men and women with strong University links have enjoyed medal success at the Olympics in London.

Researchers at King's have published a report that, for the first time, sets out in one document the issues that need to be resolved in seeking agreement, or otherwise, on the principle of the UK adopting a written constitution. Robert Blackburn, Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies at King's, is leading this impartial research project which is funded by the Nuffield Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

A cultural historian at The University of Manchester says we should change our minds about "blaxploitation” films, exactly 40 years after the term was first coined by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

This year's Open Cambridge programme offers a rare chance to visit the historic Old Library at Queens' College, where the collection represents a window on to the intellectual upheaval of the 17th century.

Compared to previous elections, the rhetoric in the Obama-Romney presidential contest is mild, say Stanford professors Jon Krosnick, Shanto Iyengar and David M. Kennedy.

New research from the University of Warwick suggests that Berlin has the best democratic space in the world, topping a list that includes London, Washington and Tokyo.

An Open Cambridge event will tell the fascinating story of Cambridge's civic insignia and historic charters through 800 years of history.

A new Cardiff University project aiming to discover more of the history of one of Gwynedd's unsung treasures is underway.

had a green bias in 19 th century fever outbreaks in the southern states of the US. Almost half of the 650 people killed by yellow fever in Savannah Georgia in 1854 were Irish immigrants.

King's PhD student Katherine Grainger MBE, together with rowing partner Anna Watkins, has won Olympic gold in the women's double sculls, making history as the first British woman to win medals at four successive Olympic Games.

In 16th-century Europe, it was all right to be a rich business person, as long as you followed societal expectations.

Work has begun on new research that will shed light on a lost part of Scotland's cultural heritage.

Modern men should take a lead from their more enlightened and compassionate stone age ancestors, according to a University of Manchester archaeologist.

Honoré Daumier and his colleagues at the French journal La Caricature skewered the issues of the day from 1830 to 1835.

With the job market becoming ever more competitive, King's College London offers its graduates the best job prospects of any London or Russell Group university, with an employment rate of 95.2 percent, an increase of 2.6 percent on last year.

Growing up in Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, Shawn Peters can't remember the first time he heard about the Catonsville Nine.

ANU has topped the nation, winning four out of 17 ARC Laureate Fellowships, more than any other Australian university.

SEI scholars secure grant for populism project SEI-based Professor of Politics Paul Taggart and Marie Curie Inter-European Fellow Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser have obtained a £30,000 British Ac

If you plan to glue yourself to your sofa during the Olympic Games, keep an eye out for the nine Oxonians who will be competing in London this summer.

Fears of terrorism in Europe and the United States have deteriorated into an irrational suspicion of Muslims, which will continue until the West turns its critical eye inward, argues University of Ch

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The technological edge can come in a swimmer's revolutionary suit, in a cyclist's specialized bike, in any athlete's drug of choice - whether legal, untraceable or not yet banned.

The UK's first "PRAY-O-MAT" has been installed on the grounds of The University of Manchester, home of a large, three-year research project on Multi-Faith Spaces.

A new book exploring the relationship between the BBC and the British empire is published today by Simon Potter in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol.

Professor Peter Gatrell and Jennifer Carson, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester While many of the world's top athletes were limbering up for the London Olympics in

The University of Bristol is calling on members of the public across the South West to help with a new research project which aims to preserve and present the most imaginative, quirky, diverse and entertaining visual responses - photos, drawings, paintings etc - to London 2012.

Sunshine equals ice cream. Food historians have long portrayed ice cream as a luxury product confined to the elite until freezing technology brought it to the masses.

The University of Nottingham is looking to add to its list of Olympic medal winners this summer, with 11 past and future students preparing to take on the world's best athletes at London 2012.

Thirty-six schools from around Victoria will battle it out at the University of Melbourne to see who can come up with the most complex machine to take a simple photo, as part of the 2012 Amazing Spaghetti Machine Contest.

The 12th-century German "Chronicle of the Emperors" (Kaiserchronik) - widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important literary works of the European Middle Ages - is to receive a landmark new edition.

Despite the noted speaking skills of some Democratic Party leaders, a University of California, Berkeley, cognitive linguistics professor believes they still need help translating their political messages into voting booth success.

An Olympic Ode in ancient Greek composed by an Oxford University academic for the London 2012 Olympics will be declaimed by London Mayor Boris Johnson on Monday 23 July.

Bookings open today for Open Cambridge, a programme of public events taking place from 7 to 9 September.

Seven Oxford academics are among the 38 to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy for 2011.

As a teenager, Mainlehwon Vonhm walked alone, barefoot and hungry out of war-torn Liberia to the safety of a refugee camp.

Four years after he was denied a place at the Beijing Olympics, University of Nottingham alumnus Johny Akinyemi (Philosophy/Theology 2010) has been selected to represent Team Nigeria in London later this month.