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History & The Arts
Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
Professor of Classical Studies Helen King takes a look at historic beliefs around menstrual periods.
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History & The Arts
Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
Geoff Andrews argues that a multidisciplinary approach is key if we're to get to the heart of human vulnerabilities at moments of competing loyalties.
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Society, Politics & Law
The Who Are We? project
How artists and academics can work together to develop new avenues for exchange and influence
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Society, Politics & Law
From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements
Introducing the participatants in the projects, and exploring their ideas and motivations
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Society, Politics & Law
Participant voices & interactions Beyond The Babble
Listening to the voices Beyond The Babble
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Languages
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
An introduction to using a corpus to get answers in linguistics.
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History & The Arts
How the sausage links us together
Sweet versions, meat free versions; some with skins and some without. The sausage takes many forms, but is always with us.
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History & The Arts
What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
The Queen did enjoy her namesake cake - and thanks to the work of food historians, you can recreate Victoria's Victoria sponge.
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History & The Arts
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
It can make chips. It can make mash. And the potato can even help create an entire political-economic system. Rebecca Earle explains how.
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Education & Development
Are we taking the fun out of reading?
Enforcing reading on small children - and treating books as unclean - risks putting kids off literacy before they've even started, worries Ingrid Piller.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
In new research which studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find ...
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History & The Arts
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
Fiction is a topic for study. Science, clearly, is an area where a lot of thought is directed. So why is it science fiction is often shunned as unworthy as a subject for academic enquiry?