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Arts + Culture William Worger has made digital copies of 'Mighty Man' and 'Tiger Ingwe' available to the public through the library Sidney Kantono William Worger, professor of history at UCLA, has spent his career specializing in the social and economic history of South Africa.

What is a "book” in the digital age - and what will it become? In a new book of her own, Amaranth Borsuk discusses the idea of "the book” through its incarnations as clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and the bound sheets of a codex on to the hyperlinked, multimedia format of the digital age.

In the summer of 1996, Will Thomas and Dave Deacy were wading in the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, watching the annual hydroplane races.

For years, Sydney Chatman rehearsed wherever she could, converting her own living room into a stage, transforming a room at the local community center and even reimagining a local muffler shop.

Melissa Stoner and Howard Nez Sr. are related by blood, and always have been. Now more than ever, they've also been related by language.

A thought-provoking film, released to coincide with the centenary of the Armistice in November 1918, in which war is imagined as a diabolical dance choreographed by Satan and Ballet Master Death is currently touring the UK, including several performances in and around Bristol.

Over the past six years, several Stanford researchers and English students have been helping develop a digital archive of early 20th-century publishers.

English professor Anne Mellor reflects on the lasting influence of and impetus behind the author's iconic monster Jessica Wolf In 1804, when the use of electricity was in its infancy, a scientist nam

The Theatre Royal's fascinating 153-year history is now available to explore online via ourtheatreroyal.org thanks to National Lottery players and the University of Nottingham.

Changes in housing costs have dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s, according to new UCL research.

The exhibition, Hand and Eye: Contemporary Reflections of East Asian Ceramic Traditions , on view through Dec.

Herbert S. Lindenberger, a professor emeritus who founded Stanford's Department of Comparative Literature and inspired generations of students and scholars, died on Oct.

Q&A with theater professor Tom O'Connor, about "Blue Moon Over Memphis," a play in the Noh theater tradition Noela Hueso Since his death in 1977, there have been countless movies, books, articles, tributes and parodies about Elvis Presley.

Searchable databases allow researchers and Andy Warhol fans worldwide to examine over 130,000 photographs taken by the iconic artist.

A new online toolkit has been designed by experts to help organisations tackle modern slavery in their local communities.

The geography of Wales is being explored through its fiction, as part of an interactive online project.

Dystopian Dream , a theatrical realization of a concept originated by Presidential Artist Nitin Sawhney in collaboration with international hip-hop duo Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez, made its U.S. premiere at Memorial Auditorium.

Scientists at McGill have found the answer to a question that perplexed Charles Darwin. So much so, that it actually led him to doubt his own theory of evolution.

External Relations writer Jacqui Bealing goes on the trail of an iconic sculpture that, for a while, lived at the University of Sussex.

The first ever live reading of Orwell's iconic text in both London and Paris completes its journey this week.

The Australian National University (ANU) is celebrating Banned Books Week this week by showing off a selection of books in the University's libraries that have at one point been banned, either in Australia or overseas.

Stanford undergraduate Lena Zlock is developing a first-ever digital humanities study of Voltaire's personal library, which contains over 6,700 books.

The Orwell Papers, housed at UCL Special Collections, have been formally inscribed to the prestigious UNESCO Memory of the World International Register.

After 80 years, a book confiscated in National Socialist Germany was handed over to its present owner.

The University is to support two local artists by welcoming them to work from its theatre. The University operates residency programmes at its historic Assembly Rooms Theatre, in Durham City, so that artists and writers have a base from which to develop their work and skills.

In a recent book, Stanford scholar Blakey Vermeule says it's important to take time to contemplate and self-reflect in order to have a fulfilling life in today's busy world.