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British veterans' charity Waterloo Uncovered adds its support to the Ukrainian war effort After almost a decade of supporting injured veterans from around the world, Waterloo Uncovered is digging deep to support Ukraine with its life-changing veteran rehabilitation programme, in preparation for the aftermath of a war that still rages on.

The global significance of Welsh-made woollens in the Atlantic slave trade is the subject of a research project led by a Cardiff University academic.

Throughout July, visitors to Arthur's Stone will get the chance to witness excavations taking place that aim to unearth the mysteries surrounding the evocative site. Tours will be run by a team of volunteers from English Heritage who will explain the latest findings from the project, run by experts and students from The University of Manchester, Cardiff University, and a series of American institutions.

An archaeological dig which uncovered what is believed to be the earliest house found in Cardiff has resumed at a city park.

It is considered to one of the most decisive battles of its age which changed the course of world history.

The story of how women in Victorian match factories fought against the brutal use of white phosphorus, was instrumental in shaping today's workers' rights, a University of Manchester dental researcher has argued.

UCL archaeologist Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin has been working with Brazilian researchers and indigenous peoples to help better understand and share their cultural heritage.

UCL has competed in University Challenge since the show's debut in 1962. We speak to next season's team, who will compete in the first series without the inimitable Jeremy Paxman.

An exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale exploring the concept of cities and urbanism through the lens of a 6,000-year-old Ukrainian archaeological site was developed by a UCL researcher with the Forensic Architecture group at Goldsmiths University.

CAMERA researchers used the latest digital technology to help create a new film documenting the attack on Sorpe Dam, narrated by a Dambuster veteran.

Researchers at the University of Warwick are working with a professional storyteller to bring a 13 century story about nonbinary gender identity to new audiences.

Professor Benedetta Rossi (UCL History), writing in The Conversation, explores the destructive legacy that slavery and forced marriage together have had on women in parts of Africa, both historically and how it continues to the present day.

PhD candidate Nancy Bird (UCL Genetics Institute) describes in The Conversation how her genetics research reveals evidence of the migrations of ancient people across Africa, and other major events of the past, embedded in the genomes of today's inhabitants. Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilisations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent.

Date Fake footage is a centuries-old problem that began long before digital technology, according to a Leeds academic. A new research paper, published in the philosophy journal Synthese , argues that deepfakes aren't as unprecedented as they may seem, as photos and videos have been the subject of manipulation for more than a century.

A new exhibition at the Freud Museum London and accompanying digital archive bring rarely seen antiquities from Sigmund Freud's extensive collection into dialogue with his key theories, co-curated by UCL Professor Miriam Leonard.

An almost metre-long footprint made by a giant, meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind ever found in Yorkshire. Curiously, the unusual footprint appears to capture the moment that the dinosaur rested or crouched down some 166 million years ago. The Yorkshire coast is renowned for producing some visually and scientifically incredible fossils, including thousands of dinosaur footprints.

This year is the 400th Birthday of The First Folio, the first printed edition of William Shakespeare's collected plays.

An astonishing discovery found at a 13 century Scottish castle has shed new light on the day-to-day domestic life of Robert Burns and his family, academics at the University of Glasgow have revealed.

A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited Britain after the end of the last Ice Age. Excavations carried out by the team at a site in North Yorkshire have uncovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of a small settlement inhabited by groups of hunter-gatherers around ten and a half thousand years ago.

A new book from a University of Sheffield academic flips the script on the accepted narrative that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New' On Savage Shores highlights t

Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire, a new study argues. People respond to climate stress in complex and unpredictable ways Susanne Hakenbeck Hungary has just experienced its driest summer since meteorological measurements began, devastating the country's usually productive farmland.

A new volume edited by Professor of Ancient History at The University of Manchester Christian Laes gives a voice to young people who do not ordinarily feature widely in the history books.

A gold coin long dismissed as a forgery appears to be authentic and depicts a long-lost Roman emperor named Sponsian, according to a new UCL-led study. The coin, housed at The Hunterian collection at the University of Glasgow, was among a handful of coins of the same design unearthed in Transylvania, in present-day Romania, in 1713.

A UCL-led team of archaeologists found spear tips and other stone tools that have been submerged under the English Channel since the last ice age, providing new clues about our Neanderthal past.