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A little known Shostakovich violin sonata fragment is to be heard for the first time in the UK at a special University of Manchester performance today (19 January).

A multimedia exhibition featuring film, images and rarely seen cultural objects from Sierra Leone that explores the role cultural heritage can play in reanimating post-conflict and developing societies opens at UCL this week.

Prince Charles and Durham expert in Christmas Day documentary on composer of 'Jerusalem' A Durham music expert will star alongside Prince Charles in a Christmas Day programme about the composer of some of Britain's best known anthems.

Public Invited to Tag Paintings to Help Build a National Online Catalogue The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF), in partnership with the BBC, today announced that all oil paintings in public ownership

The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century.

In the last decade, annual visitor numbers to the Eastern region's only botanic garden have more than doubled, and in November passed 200,000 for the first time in the Garden's 165-year history.

King's College London is pleased to announce that Deborah Bull has accepted the newly created role of Executive Director, King's Cultural Institute, and will join King's in March 2012.

King's College London is pleased to announce that Deborah Bull has accepted the newly created role of Director, King's Cultural Partners, and will join King's in March 2012.

A leading medical scientist from The University of Nottingham Medical School is to be honoured by a new choral work commissioned in his memory.

Forget your supermarket advent calendars this Christmas — The University of Nottingham is launching a free calendar with an interactive twist.

Researcher reveals lost world of local artist in new museum exhibition University of Sussex art historian Alexandra Loske's trip to a Lewes antique shop led to her own exhibition of rarely seen works at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.

Music is more than just sound. Sharing many features with language, it has all the hallmarks of a communicative system, as Cambridge researchers are showing.

Plymouth University’s digital expertise has been drawn upon for a ‘mooving’ farewell as the UK’s biggest contemporary arts event draws to a close in the city.

An unlikely mix of weightlifting pensioners, Jedis, and one corner of the University has changed Scottish film culture.

Five songs written by renowned author Anthony Burgess from his 1969 screenplay of "A Clockwork Orange" are to be performed for the first time at The University of Manchester.

From Band Aid to X-Factor: a history of the charity single The charity single season gets under way in earnest this week with the release of the BBC charity Children In Need's song Teardrop, followed by TV talent show The X-Factor's Christmas single, Wishing On A Star.

The world-renowned sociologist, Professor Manuel Castells, is to be the second Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media at the University of Cambridge, from 16 to 21 November 2011.

Clare Holtham (1948-2010) had a huge enthusiasm for learning. After a troubled childhood, which led to a spell of homelessness, she became an intrepid traveller and independent-minded student at Newnham College, Cambridge.

The Cavaleri Quartet has been named as the first recipient of the Radcliffe Chamber Music Residency at the Faculty of Music.

26 Oct 2011 A collection of lost colour prints and illuminated books by the iconic artist and poet William Blake - potentially worth millions of pounds - is waiting to be discovered somewhere in the north east of England , according to a University of Manchester art historian.

‘Plymouth through the ages’ has been captured by University Arts students in a stunning city centre illustration display to coincide with the UK’s biggest contemporary art exhibition.

Constraints on creativity imposed by computer-aided design (CAD) tools are being overcome, thanks to a novel system that incorporates eye-tracking technology.

A documentary delving into a local man’s underwater world is set to be showcased at Plymouth University, to coincide with the prestigious British Art Show 7.

The Power of Stories will be the theme for this year's Arts and Humanities Festival when the School throws opens its doors to the public to showcase the diversity and impact of its research on society.

A piece of music composed by Beethoven in 1799 and lost for over 200 years has been painstakingly reconstructed by a Professor of Music at The University of Manchester.

Her song cycle One Life Stand , with words by poet Sophie Hannah is a response to Robert Schumann's 1840 song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman's Life and Loves) .

For centuries historians have believed that the spark that led to the popular Scottish uprising against Edward I in 1297 was William Wallace's killing of the English Sheriff of Lanark, William Hesilrig.

Art is in your hands at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery on Saturday 10 September, 1-4pm, in a workshop led by Louise Atkinson.

Academics collaborate with artists to explore archive and exile An exhibition marking the culmination of a two year interdisciplinary project between academics at the University of Sheffield and artists will open to the public on Wednesday July 6 2011 at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield.