19-20 February 2026

Key collaborators are the Coptic Church in Stockport, Manchester, and the Coptic Church in Llandudno, Wales. The project has an extensive and international advisory board. A PDRA seeking an academic career may find the balance between traditional research and co-creation appealing.

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Roundtable on Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023)

The Talent Development Awards are available to promote the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK-based researchers, promoting innovative research methods, be that through skill...

92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

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The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...

The Department of Classics and Archaeology seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Roman History from 1 September 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter).We are delighted to offer this exciting op...

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The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...

A new study analyzes nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts using digital tools to reveal how scribes shaped literary culture through excerpting—introducing a new metric, Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM), to ma...

As the next round of Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration grants prepares to open this month, UK researchers continue to form impactful partnerships with their EU counterparts, with international...

AHRC and DFG have extended their bilateral funding agreement for a further five rounds.

A conversation with Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) about the corpus of Latin literature from antiquity down to the present, where we discuss the reasons why most scholars focus on the period be...

Elected in 2025

Funding outlined to support transformational R&D in areas like life sciences, green energy, engineering and beyond.

More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion (276308), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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Are you an academic with the enthusiasm and ability to carry out teaching and research in Ancient History? Do you have an excellent research record and a potential for establishing an international re...

Translated Texts for Historians (TTH), the acclaimed series of translations of a wide range of texts in many ancient languages from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (300-800 CE), is celebra…