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This post explores a powerful exhibition held at Senate House by the charity From Syria With Love and how the organisers went about bringing the display to London for Being Human 2017.

In this post, Hanna and Annie reveal the journeys they took when creating their Being Human festival activity and how audiences responded to thinking about their own deaths.

Vanessa Mongey explains about how a love of ferns tied the imperial, natural and human histories of the Caribbean to the North-East of England.

In this post Tom Cutterham discusses the moral complexities behind the University of Birmingham’s event ‘Must bankers be bad’ as he argues that the humanities have a central role to play in today’s banking climate.

In this post, George Kyris discusses the role sovereignty has played from the time of King Henry VIII until today’s Brexit Britain.

In this post, Catherine Waters explores the Victorian reporting at the heart of her Being Human festival event ‘Rediscovering the art of Victorian graphic journalism’.