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The UCLA Library and Early Manuscripts Electronic Library have partnered with St. Catherine's Monastery to digitize and publish online on an open access basis some 1,100 rare and unique Syriac and Arabic manuscripts dating from the fourth to the 17th centuries.

Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Drew Gehling is pleasing both sides of the aisle, starring in an apolitical story about politics.

Early in the second season of Netflix's hit comedy series " GLOW ," a small army of female amateur wrestlers rampage through a mall as a young man wielding a camera and a furry mustache chases them.

James M. Breedlove, a longtime Stanford librarian who gathered thousands of Latin American and Iberian materials, died on June 12.

What treasures are hidden away inside the vast holdings of UC Berkeley's libraries' To find out, the foremost authorities were consulted: the librarians.

Brontë's novel has fascinated generations of readers with its rebellion against Victorian femininity.

Durham University has helped a Durham-born writer return to her roots in developing her next theatre show.

Rare 14th-century texts historian Rowan Dorin found in Stanford's Green Library show an enthusiastic exchange of knowledge between medieval people, going against the belief that the Middle Ages was an ignorant time. When historian Rowan Dorin first stepped onto the Stanford campus in early 2017, he made it a habit to visit Green Library every week to dig through its collection of medieval documents and objects.

People in Nottinghamshire will not tolerate misogyny hate crime and a policy introduced in 2016 is already shifting the attitudes of both victims and potential perpetrators, according to a new report.

A Literary Studies Convention at The Australian National University (ANU) has heard that art forms addressing trauma can help to recast and even heal collective trauma such as genocide.

Can superheroes teach us some important lessons about how to respond to a crisis? That's the question Katie Cox, PhD candidate at ANU, posed in her paper delivered to the 2018 Literary Studies Convention, being held at the University from 3-7 July.

A 14-year-old Syrian refugee who received a violin from Oxford has received a visa to start a new life with his family in Australia.

Exhibition Opening "Reclam's Universal Library" on June 25 at the University Library of Freie Universität No 161/2018 from Jun 22, 2018 The University Library of Freie Universität is dedicating an ex

From cannibalism and decapitated toes to sinister sexual overtones, the earliest versions of some of the classic fairy tales, were definitely not for children and far from the Disney versions we know and love today.

Free Electronic Publishing of Research Data Now Possible in New Repository of Freie Universität No 149/2018 from Jun 18, 2018 The new repository "Refubium" of the University Library of Freie Universität has been online since June 11 under the URL: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de.

A full-scale replica of the second Globe Theatre is set to offer an authentic Shakespeare experience for Sydney theatregoers - including for the University of Sydney academics whose research led to the reconstruction.

The University of Nottingham has acquired a unique archive of treasures linked to Nottingham's most famous literary son, DH Lawrence.

Academics at the University of Glasgow today (1 June 2018) launched a new digital database of fugitive slave adverts from 18th century UK newspapers.

The University of Warwick is a Tate Exchange Associate Researchers from the University of Warwick are exploring their research findings through artistic practice with the public at Tate Modern's Tate Exchange programme next month (June 12-17).

What are you planning to do this Memorial Day? What is the day for? Why was it created? Despite a long tradition of public promises that those who give their lives fighting for their families, cities and countries will live on in communal memory, human hearts and minds can stand only so much.

The value of learning languages in Brexit Britain comes under the spotlight as part of Cardiff University's Cardiff Series at this year's Hay Festival.

Judea Pearl, chancellor's professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA, has written his first book intended for a general audience, "The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect.