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Around 100 years ago, Ljuba Metzl translated a famous Baroque drama from Latin into German. But her achievement has been suppressed from history.

The Cluster of Excellence "Cross-Cultural Philology" at LMU Munich, which was launched at the beginning of 2026, takes a global look at 5,000 years of written culture.

Long absent from Belgian literary accounts, Junia Letty studied at ULB, was published at an early age and moved in European intellectual circles at the end of the 19th century.

Russian princess turned refugee, Belgian journalist and writer, Zinaïda Chakhovskaïa has lived a thousand lives through revolutions and exiles.

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language.

When Karen Wen told her family and friends she was spending her summer hunting for poison books within Western Libraries , they were shocked.

The University of Leeds is championing the use of Wikipedia to make education and history more accessible.

A project which helps people struggling with low mood during the winter months check out some sunlight from their local library is heading to one of Scotland's most remote communities this winter.

AI chatbots are taking over writing for students and researchers. Linguist Giorgio Iemmolo explains what we are jeopardising in the interest of efficiency gains.

Ethiopian women face rising online discrimination, hindering equality. Manchester researchers, with the Centre for Information Resilience and local partners, used NLP to expose the issue and offer evidence-based steps for safer digital participation.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi (UCL School of European Languages, Culture, and Society) explores how enslavement shaped European culture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

News from A new junior research group headed by Anna Shadrova started work at the Herder Institute at Leipzig University on July 1, 2025.

A team of researchers, including Dr Rachel White from our Department of English Studies, has presented new evidence about one of the most famous insults in English literature - the phrase 'upstart crow' aimed at William Shakespeare.

New research has cast fresh doubt on the origins of one of the most famous insults aimed at William Shakespeare, pointing the finger at a friend of the Bard.

With the rise of generative AI, unreliable information can easily be widely disseminated, with potentially serious consequences.

And the results are no joke.

A team of international researchers led by EPFL developed a multilingual benchmark to determine Large Language Models ability to grasp cultural context.

The University of Manchester is set to launch the Manchester Digital Dante Library, a landmark digital collection which will make some of the rarest and most significant early printed editions of Dante's Divine Comedy available freely online for the first time.