The Fall of the Berlin Wall: British residents remember November 1989
The past week has seen commemorations marking the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall and in our latest blog [...]
Research Spotlight
The realities of domestic worker activism and the fight for truth and justice
In our latest blog post, Dr Ella Parry-Davies, an AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinker and a British Academy [...]
The importance of poetry today
In our latest blog post, Professor Andrew McRae, University of Exeter discusses the community arts [...]
Partnering with China in the creative industries
In our latest blog, AHRC Programme Coordinator Jo Billingham, discusses a recent workshop on our work with the creative industries in China. [...]
Manchester Voices: Documenting and celebrating the accents and dialects of Greater Manchester
Manchester Voices is a research project which explores the rich tapestry of accents, dialects, and identities that make up Greater Manchester. In this week’s blog, Dr Erin Carrie and Dr Rob Drummond discuss how the research will develop, and demonstrate why it really is a project about, with, and for the people of Greater Manchester. [...]
Reflecting on Women’s Rowing: Oral Histories and Sporting Lives
By Lisa Taylor The pace of change in women’s sport is quickening. More media airtime is being dedicated to [...]
Spring Nature Diary – Sir Mark Walport
We asked the nation to help mark the arrival of spring to create a crowd-sourced nature diary. Prof Sir Mark Walport, CEO of UK Research and Innovation, captured the wildlife that he saw on his morning commute. [...]
‘Mythical Florence’: Where Does the Lady with the Lamp Stand Today?
As the Bicentenary of Florence Nightingale's death approaches, an AHRC-funded project is looking to commemorate it by looking back at the regional representations of the lady with the lamp. In this week's blog Dr Jonathan Godshaw – describes Nightingale's uncomfortable relationship with public representations of herself. [...]
Performing Mountains
In this week’s blog, project lead Professor Jonathan Pitches describes how combining mountain culture with live performance has led him to a new way to translate mountain experience. [...]
From Stalingrad to Leningrad:Rebuilding Cities and Communities in Post-War Soviet Russia
Robert Dale – a historian and lecturer in Russian History at Newcastle University – discusses how the AHRC International Placement Scheme helped him bring to life the extraordinary story of six men who cycled to 2,000 km in the hope of uniting two of Soviet Russia’s largest cities. [...]
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