Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

Abstract. The case of the ‘Scottish martyrs’ transported from Britain for sedition in 1794 was followed closely in revolutionary France. Although these fiv

Universities worst affected as lawyers collate database of incidents of ‘repression’

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after...

For a brief time in the 1810s and 1820s, Robert Wedderburn embodied the possibility of common ground between the two...

This interdisciplinary conference invites graduate students and early career researchers to consider the genealogy of international law since 1750. It aims to identify new or unrecognised actors – ...

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

This summer Danny & Conor will be cycling the length of the UK from Lands End in Cornwall to John O' Groats in the most northeastern Scotland. We will be cycling across the country in our mum Nanette...

Colloque junior, CHSP, Sciences Po Paris, 27-28 November 2025Abstracts submission deadline: 10 August 2025Contact: invisibleactors2025@gmail.comCo-funded by Sciences Po School of Research and the Cent...

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.

The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux

Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks Oxford academics drank from a chalice made from a human skull for decades, a book that explores the violent colonial history of looted human remains has revealed. The skull-cup, fashioned from a sawn-off and polished braincase adorned with a silver rim and stand, was used regularly at formal dinners at Worcester College, Oxford, until 2015, according to Prof Dan Hicks, the curator of world archaeology at the university’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Continue reading...