The rise of horsepower 4,200 years ago
All domestic horses living on the planet today, whether racetrack champions, pony-club companions, or heavy draft giants, find their origins...
Arts & Culture
‘Lost’ Elizabethan manor house rediscovered in Devon
A long-lost Elizabethan manor house that swapped hands between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War has...
Immersive app provides trio of first-person perspectives of historic Venice
Historic tales of vice, migration and multiculturalism, and ritualistic fighting on the bridges have been brought to life in an...
Pioneering Choreographer Lea Anderson MBE to Launch her New Book at the University of Exeter
2024 marks the 40th anniversary of The Cholmondeleys dance company, founded in 1984 by Lea Anderson, Teresa Barker and Gaynor Coward. To celebrate,...
New research project launched to transform understanding of women’s creative contributions to the history of British filmmaking
The lost legacy of women who’ve worked in the British film industry since the dawn of sound in the cinema...
Extraordinary moments of coronavirus crisis seen in new interactive art display
The extraordinary moments of the coronavirus pandemic experienced by millions across the country are reflected in a new interactive online...
Modern version of Punch and Judy set to be unveiled at major London festival
A contemporary version of Punch and Judy that offers a more gender balanced representation of the controversial couple is set...
Recovered Cotton Famine era poetry published in first complete collection
A complete collection of poems written during the historic cotton famine of the 19th century and rediscovered after more than...
New exhibition shows decades-long road to the birth of the Channel Tunnel
The world’s leading engineering minds explored the potential for a bridge to France and conducted decades of painstaking research to...