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History / Archeology - Health - 13.07.2022
Bones of men and horses bring home the horrors of war at Waterloo
Bones of men and horses bring home the horrors of war at Waterloo
A team of world-class archaeologists, students and veterans on the battlefield of Waterloo have discovered a rare complete skeleton of a soldier from the battle 200 years ago. As many as 20,000 men fell on a single day in June 1815 in the epic battle near Brussels in Belgium that forever ended Napoleon's dreams of empire.

History / Archeology - 13.07.2022
Bronze Age enclosure could offer earliest clues on the origins of Cardiff
Bronze Age enclosure could offer earliest clues on the origins of Cardiff
An archaeological dig at a city park has uncovered what could be the earliest house found in Cardiff.

History / Archeology - 11.07.2022
New Cambridge Latin course reflects diversity of the Roman world
New Cambridge Latin course reflects diversity of the Roman world
The latest edition of the leading Latin course has been designed to more accurately depict the roles of women, minorities and enslaved people in the Roman world.

History / Archeology - 08.07.2022

Physics - History / Archeology - 04.07.2022
Ten years since the discovery of the Higgs boson
Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, an international collaboration of particle physicists announced to the world that they had independently observed a new particle - the Higgs boson. The finding came out of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN; Oxford researchers were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role in Higgs-boson research ever since.

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 01.07.2022

History / Archeology - Event - 08.06.2022

History / Archeology - 23.05.2022

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 23.05.2022

History / Archeology - Religions - 17.05.2022
Katherine Parr did not persuade Henry VIII to found Trinity College Cambridge, new study argues
Katherine Parr did not persuade Henry VIII to found Trinity College Cambridge, new study argues
King Henry VIII had already made up his mind to found Trinity College Cambridge and Christ Church Oxford before Cambridge lobbied his queen, a re-examination of 16th-century sources suggests.

Campus - History / Archeology - 21.04.2022

History / Archeology - Event - 07.04.2022
Veterans and Archaeologists survey Falklands battlefields on 40th anniversary of the conflict
Veterans and Archaeologists survey Falklands battlefields on 40th anniversary of the conflict
During the 40 th anniversary of the Falklands War, a team including veterans, archaeologists and local people are carrying out the first archaeological survey of the islands' battlefields, it was revealed today.

History / Archeology - Research Management - 06.04.2022
Research team sheds light on Roman financial crisis
New scientific analysis of the composition of Roman denarii has brought fresh understanding to a financial crisis briefly mentioned by the Roman statesman and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero in his essay on moral leadership, De Officiis, and solved a longstanding historical debate. Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Liverpool have analysed coins of the period and revealed a debasement of the currency far greater than historians had thought, with coins that had been pure silver before 90BC cut with up to 10 per cent copper five years later.

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 28.03.2022

Politics - History / Archeology - 21.03.2022

Economics - History / Archeology - 17.03.2022

History / Archeology - Architecture - 01.03.2022
Road radar to reveal York’s Roman secrets
The biggest investigation ever undertaken into Eboracum, the Roman city buried beneath York, is set to begin this summer.

Politics - History / Archeology - 01.03.2022
War in Ukraine: UCL academics provide expert comment and updates
War in Ukraine: UCL academics provide expert comment and updates
As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues to develop, UCL academics are advancing public knowledge about the situation by analysing events and providing expert comment in the media.

Economics - History / Archeology - 01.03.2022

Politics - History / Archeology - 28.02.2022
Ukraine conflict: UCL academics provide expert comment and updates
Ukraine conflict: UCL academics provide expert comment and updates
As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to develop, UCL academics are advancing public knowledge about the situation by analysing events and providing expert comment in the media.

Politics - History / Archeology - 23.02.2022

History / Archeology - 17.02.2022

Life Sciences - History / Archeology - 03.02.2022
Opinion: Cranes - why Britain's tallest bird just had its best breeding year since the 1600s
Opinion: Cranes - why Britain’s tallest bird just had its best breeding year since the 1600s
The total population of cranes in the UK is now believed to be over 200 thanks to the careful guarding of nests and a carefully designed breeding programme, says Honorary Professor Richard Gregory (UCL Division of Biosciences).

Linguistics / Literature - History / Archeology - 03.02.2022

History / Archeology - Environment - 03.02.2022

History / Archeology - 27.01.2022
’Dear John...’ - new book reveals the untold story of the wartime break-up letter
New book explores romantic life in wartime, how and why relationships break down, and the consequences for men and women in uniform, through the phenomenon of the -Dear John- letter, that most notorious of wartime missives.

Event - History / Archeology - 21.01.2022

History / Archeology - 19.01.2022

Mathematics - History / Archeology - 10.01.2022
One in 16 million win is the most improbable FA Cup third round shock in 50 years
One in 16 million win is the most improbable FA Cup third round shock in 50 years
Mathematicians from the Institute for Mathematical Innovation have calculated the overall probability of lower league teams reaching the 3rd round of the FA Cup Ahead of the third round of this seaso

Event - History / Archeology - 07.01.2022

Law - History / Archeology - 09.12.2021
New podcast series explores consent in legal history and in courtrooms today
In your own words, how would you define consent? It turns out that's quite a difficult question.

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 29.11.2021

History / Archeology - 18.11.2021