Pioneering historian who transformed the study of Africa by seeking out the testimonies of Africans

A new MIT report finds that students are offloading their thinking to AI -- right at the moment they need to develop it.

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This essay examines the widespread concern in the 1860s and 1870s with ‘plutocracy’ – the political and social power of commercial wealth. It argues that we should not interpret either the pressure f...

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Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’

This is the first article in a new series for the Victorian Commons on Peter McLagan (1823-1900), by Dr Martin Spychal, Senior Research Fellow on our House of

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Letter: Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham

In this new series of blogs on the Palace of Westminster, we look at the three different debating chambers occupied by the MPs who sat in Parliament between 1832 and 1868, beginning with the Common…

To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…

Dr Martin Spychal introduces his series of articles on Lord Ronald Gower (1845-1916), who was elected as MP for Sutherland in 1867. This is the first of five

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University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.

Philip Salmon examines who could vote following the changes made by the ‘Great’ Reform Act of 1832. This article covers the system which was in operation until the next major Reform Act in 1867.

by Dr. Ben Schneider (University of Cambridge) The fear that new technologies will cause mass unemployment appears during every wave of transformative innovation. Despite the recurrence of these discu...