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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the inventor of the modern detective story, and like Poe's fictional detective Dupin, Richard Kopley's tireless and focused investigations have uncovered innovative discoveries about Poe the writer, and Poe the man. Kopley, Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State DuBois, presents a concentrated and original view of the timeless works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Modern society has an intense interest in classifying people into 'types', according to a University of Melbourne Cultural Historian, leading to potentially catastrophic life-changing outcomes for th

Read more news Published Tuesday 2nd November 10 A new study of early medieval manuscripts written in the English language has revealed that the Normans, who conquered England in 1066, were not the destructive force of popular belief.

The remarkable story of a daring World War II operation in which hundreds of people fleeing the Japanese advance through Burma were rescued by elephant is to be told in full for the first time.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, a number with special significance for the Korean people. In order to mark the anniversary, Robinson College will show North Korean film 'Wolmi Island'. The film is a vivid portrayal of the tragic fate of a coastal battery unit that fought to the last man protecting Wolmi Island in September 1950.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will be the first federal organization to use VIVO, a Web application conceived and developed at Cornell, to create a "one-stop shop" for feder

The Columbia University Libraries have received a gift of $4 million to establish the Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies which will include three new endowments: a Jewish Studies librarian, the General Jewish Studies Collection and the Special Collections in Judaica. Babylonian Talmud.

'Colouring The Invisible' is a short-term installation by Julia Vogl, student at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, to reflect the languages most commonly spoken by the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies? (SSEES) community.

Kim Jong-Un's succession in North Korea is unlikely to herald a thaw in relations with the South or the US, but change may be afoot in this most secretive of states, a leading researcher has claimed.

Cathy Horyn began as an AP copy girl in Chicago; now she's one of the world's leading fashion critics.

Having long been sidelined as a "Cinderella subject" in schools, children's poetry is poised to reclaim the hearts and minds of a new generation of younger readers, a new study suggests.

A Cambridge University law lecturer is curating a show of avant garde ceramics at one of the largest galleries in Shoreditch, an area of East London associated with up-and-coming artists.

An early work by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams - born 138 years ago today - is to be performed for the first time after being spotted in an exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

PA 268/10 An 18th century play recently identified by a University of Nottingham expert as a long-lost work of William Shakespeare gets its first public reading at the Nottingham Playhouse next week.

MSc student Richard Dent describes how working on a Leonardo DiCaprio film about environmental damage has changed his approach to communicating climate change challenges through multimedia.