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Good luck or bad? How Christmas decorating traditions vary in England
Heritage project finds practices thought to bring good fortune in one place were believed to sow disaster down the road.
Encountering Survival: an audio guide commemorating Holocaust survivors
Encountering Survival, an audio guide produced by School of Design's Louise Wilson and artist Linda O'keeffe, honours a relocated community of Holocaust survivors and refugees in the North of England.
Professor Holger Afflerbach’s new book launched in style at the National Army Museum
On a Knife Edge (Cambridge University Press, 2022) is a translation of Auf Messers Schneide (C.H.Beck, 2018).
A new report on the state of Languages learning in the UK
The study of languages including French, German and Spanish has seen ‘significant decreases’ leading to a concern that language learning may disappear altogether in some ‘cold spots’ of the UK.
Dr Ross Cole wins prestigious award from the Society for Ethnomusicology
Dr Cole has been awarded the prestigious Bruno Nettl Prize for his recent book 'The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination', published by University of California Press.