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Health, Sports & Psychology
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Caster Semenya's 800 metres victory at Rio hasn't been met with universal acclaim, as it reopens the debate over hyperadrogenic atheletes.
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History & The Arts
Park Hill Estate
Park Hill achieved the dream of streets in the sky - just as the dream was souring.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Why has the diving pool gone green? What does 'your team' mean in 2016? Will hosting the games make people happier? How sexist are the Olympics? A round up of academic insight from the first week of the Rio games.
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History & The Arts
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
The political writing of Percy Shelley might have a message for the UK right now, believes Mark Summers.
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Society, Politics & Law
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
People who choose to identify as something other than human can often be the subject of ridicule. Pedro Feijó has researched how otherkin, and others, have been viewed through the centuries.
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History & The Arts
Protestivals - What are they?
Protest Festivals or ‘Protestivals’ as they are also known, might seem like a relatively new concept, but scholars say that the roots of this particular form of protest can be found in the alternative globalisation movements that started in the 1980s.
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History & The Arts
The outgoing Prime Minister and his replacement: Gladstone makes way for Rosebery
As Downing Street changes hands again, we dip into the archives to find out what happened in 1894 when ill-health forced William Gladstone to quit in favour of his foreign secretary Lord Rosebery. This extract originally appeared in The Northern Echo.
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History & The Arts
A journey through two Englands
In this extract from George Eliot's Felix Holt The Radical, a coach makes its way through a nation divided.
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History & The Arts
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
This free course, The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present, highlights the similarities and differences between our modern Games and the Ancient Olympics and explores why today, as we prepare for future Olympics, we still look back at the Classical world for meaning and inspiration.
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History & The Arts
1 July 1916: the beginning of the Battle of the Somme
On the centenary of the end of The Battle of the Somme, discover why the British consider it the bloodiest battle of the First World War, surpassing the Battle of Verdun, and why the Germans don't hold the same view.
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History & The Arts
Stonehenge before the First World War
In this extract from Afoot In England, the naturalist and author William Henry Hudson despairs of a site already being turned into a tourist spectacle.
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History & The Arts
A 19th century autopsy unmasks a poisoner
14 physicians gather at a graveside to untangle a tale of American settlers, poison, weak alibis, murder and suicide.