Editorial: Ministers promised a ‘change of approach’, but their new tax could tip weaker institutions over the edge

David Edgar’s sharp political drama explores the faultlines threatening modern democracy.

Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector

Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

In her new book, Indignity, Albanian political scientist Lea Ypi discovers that online trolls are accusing her grandmother of having been a communist spy during World War II. To find the truth, she di...

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north.

Plus: Cattle crisis

Americans have favorable views of chivalry and castles, but not the Crusades or the Inquisition

The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.

This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers

In partnership with the journal Early Medieval Europe, the British School at Rome is pleased to announce the second BSR/EME Fellowship.    Aimed at early career researchers (defined as current PhD stu...

Byzantine studies is neither the oldest nor the largest of the historical disciplines, but it is among the oddest. Its peculiarities, however, are rarely d

Our quest for a Christmas miracle

The UK higher education sector faces a financial crisis risking economic impact, social mobility, and research innovation without urgent government action.

Byzantine studies is neither the oldest nor the largest of the historical disciplines, but it is among the oddest. Its peculiarities, however, are rarely d

People have always had a past. Mirela suggests that we should think of history differently- through peoples' lived stories, relationships, food, and lives. H...

Rezension über Benjamin Anderson / Mirela Ivanova (eds.): Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press...

Lea Ypi and Roger Luckhurst join Matthew Sweet to look at novels, dreams and bureaucracy.