The impact of the Skills White Paper on university access?

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

A lucrative revenue stream for universities has led to an industry of unregulated agents now under scrutiny for making lofty promises

Expert says self-testing kits are clinically useless and can be a distraction from evidence-based treatment Expensive, over-the-counter hormone tests for menopause are clinically useless and risk undermining women’s healthcare, senior doctors have warned. The testing kits, offered by private clinics and available to buy for self-testing, claim to offer tailored insights through measuring hormone levels. But they have been described by experts as misleading and medically unnecessary. Continue reading...

A magnificent exhibition at the V&A tries to capture the woman behind the possessions

What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, to…

What freshly nuanced perspectives might we bring to the violent late 20th-century history Coetzee describes?

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of…

Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

Kylie Cheung’s forthcoming book Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans is a searing investigation into the intersecting structures that control the lives of women and pregnant people. In h…

An exhibition on art by and about nurses over the last 150 years.

A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

For the first time, scientists have created fertile mice from two biological fathers, which have gone on to have their own offspring.

A conversation with Cécile Simmons, hosted by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University

[Open Access] The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half centuryBoth fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biological, and choice dependent ...

Looking back at the 2020s, historians of medicine might consider the decade a galvanising moment for research and publications about reproduction. Historie

Visiting authors and artists discuss their writing and offer workshops on writing, science, and medicine.

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