Professor Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) will speak on the Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE)

Family Estrangement Has Been Complicated for Centuries

The 7th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries conference, a free, online event on Friday 27th November 2026, is hosted by the Open University Law School legal histories research cluster.

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...

This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.

Kissing is a serious business for Professor Katie Barclay, a native of Lanarkshire working in Australia

Call it a crisis, call it a decline, call it a recession: the long, lusty snog is in trouble, harder to experience in real life or even watch on screen. But why? And what’s it like to think you may ne...

The kiss! What could be more romantic? And yet, as historian Katie Barclay discovered when writing her book The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power, she found non-…

Katie Barclay with a theme from her new book 'The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power'.

This workshop facilitates an interdisciplinary conversation about narrative and imagination and their impact on individual and collective well-being.

If you hit your finger with a hammer, would you feel it the same way a medieval carpenter did, doing exactly the same thing?

If you hit your finger with a hammer, would you feel it the same way a medieval carpenter did, doing exactly the same thing?

The essays in Beacon Of Curiosity will be of interest to Dundonians at home and abroad, writes Charlie Lynch

Dr Charlie Lynch attends a two-day conference held to mark 50 years since the publication of a book which ruffled the feathers of Scotland’s…

From Desiderius Erasmus to Luis Rubiales, a cultural history of this most intimate of gestures

YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast

Come together to celebrate VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network @ 10!

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

Professor Katie Barclay explains how growing our capacity to imagine can support innovative solutions to current world problems.

Love, Loneliness and Automated Systems of Affection. , Katie Barclay, Do., 21.05.2026 - 17:00

Mentoring in the academy is a laudable exercise, but it continues to be shaped by powerful institutional infrastructures of inherited, white, patriarchal privilege. Drawing on interviews that explo...

Labor was right to place intergenerational inequality at the centre of the budget, but it missed an opportunity to reverse the grossly unfair Morrison-era university fee hikes

THERE’S a milestone to mark. This history column has now been running for nearly a year and now has reached 25 instalments. It is believed to be…

THERE’S a milestone to mark. This history column has now been running for nearly a year and now has reached 25 instalments. It is believed to be…