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The cover of Laura King living with the dead. A photograph of a women in the 1920s wearing a beret and holding a bicycle, against an image of a wooden background.

Living with the Dead: Professor Laura King on her new book

Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain is published by Oxford University Press (2025).

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A Hidden Treasure in Leeds University Library Special Collections

Postgraduate student sheds light on a manuscript in the Ripon Cathedral collection.

An antique black and white photograph showing a hand held over a dark mark on a forearm demonstrating the manual treatment of ulcers

New AHRC Research Network launched: The Ethics of Medical Photography: Past, Present, and Future

How can we view and work with historical medical photographs in an ethical way?

The cover of All His Spies. Elizabethan men wearing ruffs and black clothes sit next to a table covered with a red tablecloth.

All His Spies: Professor Stephen Alford on his new book

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil is published by Allen Lane (2024). Professor Alford joins us to tell us more about the book.

picture of an old recird book

Georgian Army Officers database launched

The careers of over 50,000 officers who served in the British Army between 1790 and 1820 can now be searched in a new online database.