Professor Katherine Brickell and Professor Matthew Bell from King’s College London have been elected as British Academy Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and ...

Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot are warmly encouraged to submit proposals in French (by 30 September 2026) for the next Journées internationales jeunes…

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

This major exhibition reveals the real story of the samurai, from medieval battlefields to modern blockbusters.

Meiko Kaji’s headstrong action heroes have shaped films from Star Wars to Aliens – and earned adoration from Tarantino

Professor Kélina Gotman explores the strands that have underpinned ‘performance’ discourse over the past 150 years.

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures announced the winners of its annual A-Level writing competitions, with the successful writers seeing their work published in the Department’s…

Matthew Bell’s Goethe: A Life in Ideas reveals a restlessly inventive thinker who admired autocrats and shunned Christianity

Exploring how 18th-century forms and narrative are taken-up, recycled and re-visioned in contemporary media, this book asks which histories are told and by whom…