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The Vernon Manuscript is a unique lavishly decorated and illustrated book of religious poems and stories written in the dialect of the West Midlands.

The first-ever book to offer an in-depth analysis of images and objects relating to the greatest sports show on earth is published this month by an art historian at the University of Bristol. Olympic Visions by Mike O'Mahony examines a fascinating array of visual materials that have been made to advertise, celebrate or commemorate the Games, ranging from paintings, drawings and sculptures to documentary film and photographs, posters, mascots and medals.

Leah Rand won't be making any 3-D zoetropes this year, but she's still planning on exhaustion. Scav Hunt leaves no one untouched.

Many strands of Eric Kandel 's life come together in his latest work, The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present .

Stanford scholar Reviel Netz discusses why some of the greatest mathematicians were also some of classical history's most poetic storytellers. By Corrie Goldman The Humanities at Stanford Like novelists, mathematicians are creative authors. With diagrams, symbolism, metaphor, double entendre and elements of surprise, a good proof reads like a good story.

Through a series of moving monologues, Anna Deavere Smith demonstrates the many manifestations of 'grace' at the Heyns Lecture on Religion and Society.

A secret report, previously unknown to historians, shows how British Intelligence was tracking Hitler's growing preoccupation with "the enemy within" on the eve of the Final Solution.

Current research ethics focuses on protecting study participants, but according to bioethicists from McGill University and Carnegie Mellon University, these efforts fail to prevent harms that undermine the social value of research. Published in Science, McGill's Jonathan Kimmelman and Benjamin Carlisle and CMU's Alex John London argue that current research ethics frameworks do not flag drug trials that, while not putting patients at risk, produce biased evidence.

Teachers given unique opportunity to develop lessons from rediscovered social surveys Teachers will be delving into unexplored records of Britain's domestic history to create their own original learn

A new paper by academics from the University of Birmingham's School of Education argues that the policies of sports governing bodies are contributing to the limited participation of Muslim sports women in international sport.

Archaeology project helps to rehabilitate injured soldiers A Sussex archaeology student will be giving a talk on campus tonight (Thursday 3 May) about his key role in a pioneering project to help rehabilitate soldiers who have been injured in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A new exhibition at the Department of Architecture aims to expose the forgotten history of the University's experimental post-war architecture: the 'other' Cambridge of raw, angular buildings and the ambition and innovation they embody.

A postcard from Adolf Hitler as a young soldier has been uncovered by Europeana 1914-18, an archival project partnered by Oxford University and the British Library.

The latest exhibition at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery will present highlights including early English watercolours, 20th century drawings and recent prints.

Humans and animals have a complicated relationship. Where does the animal kingdom end and the human one begin?

In the process of extracting Latino demographic data from nearly a dozen Spanish-language newspapers published in California since the 1850s, UCLA professor David Hayes-Bautista stumbled upon the ans

A series of events at Cambridge's Folk Museum this summer will draw attention to the struggle for equality for women in education and at work.

He's famous for his sharp, inventive prose and his barbed public comments. The British author's next novel, about a violent criminal who wins the lottery, will be published this summer.

Religious Studies Professor Carl Bielefeldt has dedicated his academic career to the study of 13th century Japanese Zen, a tradition of Buddhism that emphasizes the practice of meditation.

Sussex professor curates Lambeth Palace exhibition on royal devotion and the people's prayer book The Book of Common Prayer is the subject of a new exhibition that celebrates the Queen's Diamond Jubi

The Rotunda has been added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places by the Philadelphia Historical Commission.

A fourteenth-century Jewish masterpiece, painstakingly preserved by experts at The University of Manchester's John Rylands Library, is launched on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch this week.

Almost 70 years since World War II, a Masters student from the Department of Defence Studies has previewed her film which depicts a soldier heading into battle with the enemy, in an act that, 'undoub

A new report published by Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) argues that a 'carrot rather than stick' approach might be recommended in the framing of any future press regulation.

On the week of the 26 th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the first-ever study of nuclear engineers has shown how they were shaped by secrecy and shifting goals. First defined by the Second World War's Manhattan Project, they marked out a new field described as a 'strange journey through Alice in Wonderland' and 'What Buck Rogers reads about when he reads'.

An evening at Lucy Cavendish College next Monday will bring together speakers and musicians from Cambridge and beyond to look at the ways in which the literature, art and music of Iran have flourished through revolution and repression.

An intimate conversation with Professor Mick Aston is the focus of this year's Personal Histories Project this Thursday, 26 April.

From humble beginnings, Islamic finance is now a trillion dollar industry and growing at a rate some in the West find alarming.

A debut feature film by a Clare College alumna is showing at the Arts Picturehouse on Tuesday 24 April and again the following evening.

Following a successful talk at Hay in 2010, Professor Paul Cartledge will be playing a major part in a series of 10 discussions on Ancient Greece at this year's festival, alongside Cambridge's own regular programme.

Harry Bennett, Associate Professor of History at Plymouth University, has spent years researching the bizarre tale and a book recording his work – titled The Nazi, The Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road – is being published at the end of April.

Lillian Hellman—playwright, memoirist, accused liar, communist, muse to mystery writer Dashiell Hammett—never wanted biographies written about her.

The University has been chosen to co-host the final Olympic preparations for Team GB 's swimming squad this summer.