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Adventures in Time: Working at the Limits of Music Notation
In our latest blog post, Dr Christian Goursaud, Research Fellow at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, provides a [...]
Heroism, humour, and community: parallels between Covid-19 and pandemics of the past
It was only recently that Dr Hannah Mawdsley was working on a collaborative doctoral partnership (CDP) scheme [...]
Languages: your passport to an open world
Wendy Ayres-Bennett is Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and [...]
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 [...]
‘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. [...]
How the AHRC helped me discover a World War One child soldier
Adam Saxon isn’t an academic (yet), but you wouldn’t know it from his enthusiasm for history. [...]
Troubled times produce radical minds – so where should we look for ours?
For our latest blog, New Generation Thinker and Lecturer in Early Modern History Dr Joanne Paul searches for the perfect recipe for finding the new generation of radical thinkers. [...]
A Strange Season: Festive Folklore and the Darker Side of Victorian Christmas
Emma Butcher – Early Career Researcher at the School of Arts, University of Leicester and AHRC New Generation Thinker – talks to us about Victorian festive folklore [...]
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