Humanities - Linguistics & Literature

Buildings and areas leading directly onto the Quad will close at 4pm each day on 10-13 February as UCL welcomes guests to the UCL200 bicentennial celebrations.

What did the voices of Britain sound like during and after the Roman period? How did early British communities construct and represent their identities? How did they interact with neighbours overseas? An innovative research project, which aims to uncover the diverse voices, identities, and cultural interactions that shaped early British history, has been awarded £1.4 million UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funding.

On Love your Libraries Day, Student Storyteller Solomiia explores how UCL's libraries and academic support services provide the everyday guidance, spaces and skills that help students thrive.

"Butterfly Burning - a fiercely poetic and mysteriously intimate novel was such a revelation". In an article for The Conversation, Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society) reveals the impact that the novel had on her young adult years.

The 3.5-year research project will examine how 'co-creation' - a collaborative process in which artists, cultural institutions, and community members share creative control - can bring artists and local communities together into a mutually beneficial two-way partnership.

Have you ever picked up a second-hand book and wondered who held it before you? Who was the Josie or Jack who received it as a gift, with a loving note tucked inside from a parent or grandparent? Pressed flowers, doodles in the margins, scribbled thoughts and dog-eared pages all'are quiet traces reminding us that readers of the past were not so different from us.