The trains may be running late, but the Western Slopes project is already attracting birds and insects on lands around the high-speed railway

Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore

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Britain has seen an explosion of migrating insects – in some cases from as far as northern Africa

Baptisms, schools, church services – how ordinary families navigated love and marriage across taboo lines.

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

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The greatest battle ever depicted in art is here at last – and it hurtles along, making your heart pound with its sense of doom and destiny, culminating in fires and corpses on a battlefield full of p...

As Easter weekend - late this year - approaches, Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the House of Lords 1660-1832 section, discusses the timing of

Four centuries of women’s poetryverse from Ireland, Scotland and Wales

If you're eagerly anticipating university life, what better way to prepare than to read one of Ireland's campus novels?

Ten chicks have been successfully reared by two breeding pairs at secret sites across Fermanagh.

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The 2026 Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture is presented by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish…

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A survey on attitudes towards accents suggests that so-called "accent bias" is still an issue in many workplaces.

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

In August 1415, three conspirators were executed for their role in the Southampton Plot, an attempt to usurp Henry V. Although two of the plotter's motives

Not indigenous to Lighthouse Island, an introduction scheme launched around 2013 means there are now 20 breeding pairs living there.

Continuing our blog series on coronations, Simon Payling from our Commons 1461-1504 project, reflects on the Coronation of the young King Richard II and the

Research suggests Sir Francis Walsingham made the Tudor queen’s letters more emotional as part of a campaign to influence her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots

In the second of two blogs for National Gardening Week, here guest blogger Dr Jonathan Denby takes a closer look at two MPs with a passion for gardening, who

Talk at the Weston Library and online. To celebrate National Swift Awareness Week, discover how this most enigmatic and aerially evolved of all birds has adapted to spend its life on the wing