Humanities

Ancient rivals fundraise to keep manuscripts in British hands

People take refuge in drama when the bombs rain down, and the arts aid rebuilding when the guns fall silent, says James Thompson, who has travelled to some of the world’s most violent regions, only for the horrors of conflict to be felt closer to home

Maintaining scholarly rigour amid demands for details about the discovery of Richard III was no easy task, but Lin Foxhall enjoyed it

University’s creative and scholarly talent features in 2013 celebrations in first city to win designation

The publisher Sage has slashed the price of publishing in its flagship open-access journal to just $99 (£63) in the wake of concern about whether researchers in the humanities and social sciences will be able to afford to comply with the UK’s new open-access mandates.

School of Humanities bolsters Tsinghua’s ascent to global elite, Carolynne Wheeler hears in Beijing

‘Probably the most significant medieval historian’ rounds on absentee students. Paul Jump writes