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A new Cardiff University research project seeks to shed light on a unique historical travel writer and poet who journeyed around Wales in the summer of 1652.

The 1876 manuscript is believed to be the only surviving score from a performance conducted by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi and presents a unique research opportunity for historians and musicologists.

A historian at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has published the first biography of Vladimir Burtsev, the 'most-wanted' revolutionary in Tsarist Russia.

A new psychological thriller about to hit the bookshelves has been penned by a Lancaster University Creative Writing MA graduate.

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Researchers digitized thousands of pieces from 19th-century archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani's collection to help scholars across the world study Rome's transformation.

Public Symposium at Freie Universität Berlin on July 6 and 7, 2017 ' 177/2017 from Jun 29, 2017 The cultural links between Latin America and North Africa will be addressed in a conference on July 6 and 7, 2017, at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

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Thirty years after he was wounded in the Civil War, Frederick Ransom was nevertheless nostalgic about his time on the battlefield.

English doctoral student Vanessa Seals studies contemporary American novels and memoirs about multiracial people's experiences to examine the role families play in their search for identity.

University of Queensland Press publishing director Madonna Duffy knew she had found "something special" when she first read a manuscript from Mark O'Flynn in 2015.

German Translators' Fund Sponsors Teaching Appointment during 2017/2018 Winter Semester ' 164/2017 from Jun 16, 2017 The translator and writer Esther Kinsky will be the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Visiting Professor of the Poetics of Translation during the 2017/2018 fall/winter semester.

A new podcast series from the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) explores contemporary theatre from the perspective of artists, creators, and performers.

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A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known childrenâ?'s adaptation of one of Japanâ''s greatest works of literature. This is a missing piece of the jigsaw. And it was sitting in the British Library all along. Laura Moretti Dr Laura Moretti, from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge, came across an unknown childrenâ?'s picture-book, dating from 1766, under the title of Ise f'ry?: Utagaruta no hajimariâ?(The Fashionable Ise: The Origins of Utagaruta) while on a study trip with her students.

What if fictional places in books, such as Middlemarch, Treasure Island, Barsetshire and Gormenghast, could be generated as maps and even 3D visualisations out of the text itself?

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois theatre department will have a female leader for the first time.

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A previously unknown play by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton has been discovered by a University of Glasgow academic.

Flying off the page Unreachable, untameable and largely unknowable; birds may be conspicuous in our environment, yet they remain strangely elusive.

A Spotify-like app that lets scientists quickly access research papers online has been developed by an Imperial researcher and an alumnus.

Jon Parmenter, right, associate professor of history, and Kurt Jordan, associate professor of anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous studies, analyze an 18th-century map of what is now New York state.

AUSTIN, Texas - The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now home to the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection.

Public Exhibition in Foyer of University Library, Freie Universität Berlin / Presentation of the Exhibition on May 31, 2017 ' 136/2017 from May 26, 2017 What is "beautiful" mathematics' An exhibition

Cardiff University's international fiction and poetry festival has teamed up with Wales Arts International and UEFA to host a series of free events this year.

Stanford researchers found that children as young as 4 years old, under certain conditions, can discern 'sins of omission' - misleading but technically accurate information.

Cardiff University experts will consider how to heal the generational divide following the divisive EU referendum, at this year's 30 th anniversary Hay Festival.

Dr Katherine Astbury Associate Professor of French Studies in the University of Warwick's School of Modern Languages and Cultures is calling for amateur actors to take part in a theatrical melodrama on stage in the country's most complete Georgian playhouse.

A rich trove of once-hidden Cornell agricultural research from journals and other serial publications is now available to the public.

A project to raise the profile of modern foreign languages has received extended funding from Welsh Government to reach pupils in rural parts of Wales.

Stanford has acquired thousands of archives about Iran's history, politics and culture that are held at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford University Libraries.

A Stanford alumnus and his family donated the diaries of his great-uncle, a Japanese businessman who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1900s.