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After 20 mutilated animal corpses were left outside a rural primary school, the creators of award-winning podcast Buried began investigating – with a little help from Chris Packham. It plunged them in...

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ...

Map of the county of Dorset featuring all possible Iron Age hillforts found to date (2024).

We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...

Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…

The British Continental Podcast returns to explore UK domestic racing, team closures, and the future with riders James McKay and Lucy Gadd. Plus, Adam Howell’s rise from lockdown cyclist to r…

Railway Accident Project - collection overview. Part of a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum (NRM) and the Modern Records Centre at the University of…

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The aim of this blog is to provide some background material relating to the issues raised in Episode 26 of my video series, Setting The Record Straight. The video and this accompanying blog take a …