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Milecastle 39 on Hadrian's Wall

Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals

17 Apr 2025

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 鈥楤arbarian Conspiracy鈥, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led...

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Helen McCarthy at St. John's

How will history tell our stories?

24 Mar 2025

Historian Helen McCarthy helps us make sense of our recent past. She infuses her subjects 鈥 from working mothers to modern retirees 鈥 with urgency...

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 探花直播Old Bailey in London. Photo: Art De Cade via Flikr under a CC license

Brits still associate working-class accents with criminal behaviour 鈥 study warns of bias in the criminal justice system

17 Jan 2025

People who speak with accents perceived as 鈥榳orking-class鈥 including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as...

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Black British Voices: the findings

28 Sep 2023

探花直播largest survey to date of the opinions and attitudes of Black people in Britain has revealed a central split on the question of British pride.

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Parasites from feasting at Stonehenge found in prehistoric faeces

20 May 2022

A study of ancient faeces uncovered at a settlement thought to have housed builders of Stonehenge suggests that parasites got consumed via badly-...

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鈥淲e can鈥檛 put our trust in a system that doesn鈥檛 hear us鈥

24 May 2021

Major survey on Black British life launched by Cambridge 探花直播 and 探花直播Voice newspaper.

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Estate sunset

Austerity cuts 鈥榯wice as deep鈥 in England as rest of Britain

09 Oct 2018

Research finds significant inequalities in cuts to council services across the country, with deprived areas in the north of England and London seeing...

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Exhibition highlights the untold story of Nazi victims in the Channel Islands

19 Oct 2017

探花直播untold stories of slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during...

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Opinion: Why both sides are wrong in the counter-extremism debate

07 Mar 2016

Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies) discusses the Government's Prevent strategy and counter-extremism in Britain.

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Housing estate

Home from home: minor moves make major differences

26 Feb 2014

Most of the moves we make are within 5 km of our previous addresses, yet these short migrations are highly significant within individual lives. New...

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Woman praying

Female conversion to Islam in Britain examined in unique research project

17 May 2013

A ground-breaking report examining the experiences of nearly 50 British women of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and faiths (or no faith) 鈥 who...

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A screenshot from the 1971 British gangster film Villain, starring Richard Burton. Dir. Michael Tuchner

Cinematic geographies of Battersea

07 May 2013

Research is combining film 鈥榓rchaeology鈥 with digital technology to create a new approach to 鈥榮ites of memory鈥 for the London borough of Battersea...

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