Transforming musicology at the Birmingham Hippodrome
30 September, 2014Read more >by Tim Crawford | Transforming Musicology explores how new technologies are influencing the ways in which we experience, make and study music…
The hand of the king? Finding the man in the Sutton Hoo ship
23 September, 2014Read more >by Dr Sue Brunning | In 1939, archaeologist Basil Brown made the discovery of a lifetime on a Suffolk country estate: the undisturbed burial of an Anglo-Saxon VIP…
Fear and the Scottish referendum
16 September, 2014Read more >by Professor Jolyon Mitchell | Listening to the Scottish Referendum Debate it is hard to escape the language of fear. News headlines have been permeated with the ‘F’ word…
Why we should be less stressed about the humanities
9 September, 2014Read more >by Professor Geoffrey Crossick | I’m puzzled by the way people in the humanities so often feel under attack. That is why the Being Human festival is so important…
UK’s first national humanities festival unveils a rich programme of events
8 September, 2014Read more >NEWS | Forget the eponymous TV programme featuring fanciful adventures of vampires, ghosts and werewolves, Being Human is a powerful nine-day festival…
Punch and Judy’s Chocolate Cornucopia of Human Knowledge
2 September, 2014Read more >by Dr Barnaby Dicker and Dr Marquard Smith | The question raised here is not ‘how do the arts fit into the humanities?’ but ‘how do the humanities fit into the arts?’