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The Right Reverend Christopher Cocksworth, Bishop of Coventry since 2008, will preach the annual sermon in commemoration of John Mere at St Benet's Church at 11.45am on Tuesday 24 April.

A display of material from the Sedgwick Museum records archive, on view to the public from tomorrow, offers a rare glimpse into the daily lives of the scientists who changed the way we think about the world around us.

Nationwide, women's lifespans are improving at a much slower pace than men's.

Radio 4 tribute to Mass Observation's extraordinary story of everyday life A University of Sussex archive devoted to everyday life and opinion as told by ordinary people is the subject of a series of Radio 4 special reports.

A new Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge has been approved by Her Majesty The Queen to succeed Professor Sir Patrick Sissons who will retire on 30 September 2012.

International surveys about the depth of people's belief in God reveal vast differences among nations, ranging from 94 percent of people in the Philippines who said they always believed in God, compared to only 13 percent of people in the former East Germany.

Sick people refusing to be seen by a doctor? "I don't have medical coverage, I can't go." That's what some people have said for far too long.

History transforms the memory of Raoul Wallenberg. For a long time, his name was associated with the inability of Swedish diplomacy to assert itself against the Soviet Union.

Through a study of dreams, Özgen Felek charts the ascendance of the 16 th -century Ottoman ruler Sultan Murad III from humble disciple to spiritual and political leader.

The University of Pennsylvania has become the first university in Pennsylvania with access to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute 's entire Visual History Archive that contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust in 32 languages and from 56 countries.

WHAT: The launch of the University of Pennsylvania's access to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's entire Visual History Archive that contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust from 56 countries and in 32 languages.

That ancient Scandinavians used animals as food is obvious – it is proven by the large numbers of animal bones found in archaeological excavations, among other things.

The Duke of Edinburgh has written in detail about his role in a dramatic wartime battle which took place in the Mediterranean more than seven decades ago.

In the midst of the historic changes that are affecting much of the Arab world, a team of Cambridge researchers are visiting Morocco to explore new perspectives in the study of the Middle East and North Africa.

The volunteers and students are taking part in real research and will have the opportunity to gain new archaeological skills and knowledge" —Dr Carenza Lewis Access Cambridge Archaeology and Ri

University of Bristol archaeologist, George Nash has co-edited a major, bilingual study of the rock art of the Iberian Peninsula, published this month by Archaeolingua.

In a crowd, looking different can be dangerous, at least if you're a pigeon.

Tanya Luhrmann's research seeks to narrow the gap between believers and nonbelievers, which she says has grown so wide it can be difficult for one side to respect the other. By Brooke Donald "What I found out is that there's a learning process. People are able to learn to have vivid experiences of God," Luhrmann said.

The Trefael Stone, a scheduled ancient monument in south-west Wales originally thought to be an ancient standing stone is actually the capstone of a 5,500-year-old tomb, according to new research from an archaeologist at the University of Bristol.

A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin's life.

Unlike most of Alfred Wallis' paintings, which he painted from memory of events long past, the Wreck of the Alba was an event that he is rumoured to have witnessed in his eighties.

A University of Sydney taxonomist has built on the research of Emperor Akihito of Japan, perhaps the world's best known ichthyologist, to classify a new family of fish. The classification of the new family Thalasseleotrididae by Anthony Gill comes after careful re-examination of the three species included in the family, one of which was first collected in Port Hacking near Cronulla in the early 1980s.

University of Warwick Economics Professor Mark Harrison has been awarded the Russian National Prize for Applied Economics in recognition of his research that filled that filled the final gap ina key

April 2012 marks the bicentenary of the high-water mark of the Luddite rebellion - but new research suggests that the movement may be celebrated for the wrong reasons.

University Park, Pa. The presence of big-box retailers, such as Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target, may alter a community's social and economic fabric enough to promote the creation of hate groups, according to economists. The number of Wal-Mart stores in a county is significantly correlated with the number of hate groups in the area, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural economics and regional economics, Penn State, and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

In the hyperpolarized world of the 2012 election, misinformation among Americans remains widespread, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study finds. One in five Americans, for example, still believe that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, while almost seven in 10 Americans mistakenly think Sarah Palin was the first to say "I can see Russia from my house." Obama is a Christian, of course, and the "seeing Russia from my house" quote originated from a "Saturday Night Live" skit with Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin.

Is democracy up to our 21st-century problems? Will the UK ever sort out its relationship with Europe? Is tragedy the perfect form for the modern plight? The Cambridge series is a wonderful way to get

In the final report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, archaeologist Brian Stewart investigates a remarkable technological leap for early mankind - the use of ostrich eggshells as water carriers.

When Chris Claremont began writing the Uncanny X-Men in 1975, he didn't think the assignment would last very long.

In the third report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, Joe Moshenska delves into Sir Kenelm Digby's fantastical and exotic 17th-century recipes and finds an early champion of cooking by science.

Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy — the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. The results also are beginning to hone in on the masses of neutrinos, the most abundant particles in the universe, which until recently were thought to be without mass.

Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy — the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. The results also are beginning to hone in on the masses of neutrinos, the most abundant particles in the universe, which until recently were thought to be without mass.

Recent research for a lunchtime talk has uncovered details of the largest single theft in the history of The Hunterian.

The body beautiful - is it time to cover up? Salon experts debate the beauty ideal in the media Do images of flawless, slim models make us feel bad about ourselves? Should pictures of perfect bodies

It's all there: 14, 000 cubic feet of paper records and 35,000 images, photographs, drawings and prints, tucked away in the University Archives and Records Center and telling stories of more than two-and-a-half centuries at the University of Pennsylvania.

Uncovering relics from the past or charting the heritage of a local community can be a painstaking and frustrating process for the amateur historian or archaeologist, often hampered by limited time and funding.

The battle of Civvy Street: Falklands memoirs study offers fresh view of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder The return home from war is often the beginning of a whole new battle for soldiers and can trig

A conference which aims to bridge the gap between academic research on Islam and public opinion regarding Muslims in the West will take place in Cambridge this week.

All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic study. An international team of scientists from the CNRS and National Museum of Natural History in France, the University of Mainz in Germany, and UCL in the UK were able to conduct the study by first extracting DNA from the bones of domestic cattle excavated in Iranian archaeological sites.

Emmet Larkin, a University of Chicago history professor and one of the nation's leading scholars of Irish history, died March 19 at the age of 84.

Generous gift commemorates Institute's 60th anniversary McGill University and its Institute of Islamic Studies have received a generous $1.25 million gift from the State of Qatar.

In completing his critically acclaimed memoir, French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann eschewed chronological order.