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It's black and white, silent and just short of ten minutes in length. But D.W. Griffith's 1909 classic The Lonely Villa inspired Dr John David Rhodes, Director of Cambridge's new Centre for Film and Screen, to look at the role and meaning of the house in American cinema.

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A consortium of university-based centres with a combined annual audience of over 1.2 million people has been launched to share best practise and offer opportunities for collaboration.

People in Merthyr will stage a one off piece of theatre and live debate exploring the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (2016) and how it relates to their lives.

A project which will shed light on how musicians rehearsed and interacted with each other in the 19th Century has begun at Oxford University.

A public event remembering the centenary of one of the bloodiest battles fought by Welsh soldiers during World War 1 will take place at Wales Millennium Centre on Saturday 21 May.

Moving tales of humanity showcased at media degree show Stories from 'the Jungle' at Calais, a multi-sensory exploration of a Holocaust survivor's childhood and an interactive box of memories for dem

Members of the public will have the opportunity to 'become' embodied energy fields within a virtual landscape as part of an interactive research residency by University of Bristol graduate student, Lisa May Thomas at the Arnolfini's Dark Studio next week [Tuesday 10 - Friday 13 May].

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features paintings of some of Russia's legendary creative figures.

Music education is still not easily accessible for all children due to a number of barriers including parental concerns about career prospects and time pressures on the curriculum, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Education (IOE).

An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after being 'reconstructed' by a Cambridge researcher and a world-class performer of medieval music There have been

Steinway piano makes a grand entrance at Sussex A piano with an illustrious past is soon to arrive at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on the University of Sussex campus.

Imperial Festival returns on the weekend of 7-8 May to celebrate the College's world-leading research alongside music, dance and more.

The Connected Communities programme promotes new forms of university/community research collaboration.

The University of Glasgow will today sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Smithsonian Institution, formally cementing a relationship which stems back more than 20 years.

As film reels have made way for digital files, cinema craft has changed. Researchers from the University of Warwick, working with photographer Richard Nicholson are giving members of the public privileged access to a realm most cinema-goers never venture, the projection box.

Students from The University of Glasgow, The Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland have joined forces with the musicians of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to create Dream

Tubby squirrels will be put through their paces at The University of Nottingham after overindulging during the winter months.

The meaning of "excellence" in higher education was the topic of Professor Alice Gast's second annual address to the Imperial community.

The University of Liverpool is supporting an innovative collaboration between CERN and the Liverpool-based media arts centre, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology).

A team of experts has pieced together the architectural context of two treasures of Renaissance art in the National Gallery collection.

I would have been a rock critic if I hadn't become an English lecturer Dr Pam Thurschwell is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Doctoral Studies in English and specialises in adolescence in literature, the modernist and contemporary novel and the work of Henry James.

The Vision of Cleopatra, a piece of choral music unheard in over a hundred years, will be performed by the University of Bristol's student choral society and symphony orchestra next week [March 12].

It's not easy for women to be taken seriously in the film industry Lizzie Thynne , is Course Convenor of the MA Digital Documentary and also teaches documentary theory and practice, and media theory to undergraduates.

It has over 1,000 members, hundreds of projects and unlimited possibilities, but what is the Hackspace? Established in September 2014, the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace has grown in popularity around the College community.

The Fitzwilliam Museum is marking its bicentenary anniversary celebrations with an exhibition on its remarkable collection of Egyptian coffins.

Dr Mike Jones, from the University of Liverpool's Institute of Popular Music , will join city culture chiefs as an official member of the inaugural Beatles Legacy Group.

Composer and filmmaker create musical portrait of Brighton for arts festival Among the highlights of this year's Brighton Festival, which begins tomorrow (7 May), is a specially commissioned film about the city made by two University of Sussex academics.

Research released today has revealed that The Beatles legacy adds £81.9m to the Liverpool economy each year and creates 2,335 jobs. Collaboratively produced by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, through the Institute of Cultural Capital, European Institute of Urban Affairs and the Institute of Popular Music, the report was commissioned by Liverpool City Council to evaluate the current and future economic impact of The Beatles.

Today, one of the great collections of art in the UK celebrates its bicentenary. Two hundred years to the day of his death, the Fitzwilliam Museum has revealed previously unknown details of the life of its mysterious founder, Richard 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion.

Future smart watches could go hands-free thanks to eye-tracking technology that is literally revolutionary.

New public art installations will be unveiled along the Forth and Clyde Canal this weekend, paying tribute to the waterway's industrial heritage and the role it plays today.

One of the most successful and legendary figures in the screen industry, Walter Murch, is to give a talk at The University of Nottingham.