Opinion – The Unfinished Experiment: 250 Years of Watching America
by Professor Kristofer Allerfeldt No political project in modern history has been watched more closely or perpetually condemned for not...
Opinion
You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Adventures with Tech in Toy Story 5
Ahead of Toy Story 5 hitting UK cinemas this week, Dr Zlatina Nikolova, of the Department of Communications, Drama and...
Earth Day 2026: Hello, World: The Pre-History of ‘Views from Nowhere’
By Professor Jason David Hall Just in time for this year’s Earth Day (22 April), we have a reminder of...
The 80th anniversary of Hiroshima
On the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, historian Professor Richard...
Opinion: Unconditional Surrender 1945 – an 80th anniversary reflection upon VE and VJ Days
by Professor Richard Overy It is now 80 years since Germany and Japan surrendered to the Allied powers on the...
Red Hand Day 2025: Historical Perspectives on Child Soldiers
Between 2005 and 2022, more than 105,000 children are estimated to have been recruited and used in armed conflict around...
Opinion: Why Trump’s tactic to make Kamala Harris’s laughter ridiculous won’t work, according to Baudelaire
When US Vice-President Kamala Harris began to be touted as President Joe Biden’s likely successor, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump...
Opinion: Major internet outages are getting bigger and occurring more often
At 9.30am on the 19 July, 2024, I received an automated text alert from the IT Services team at the...
D-Day 80th Anniversary: Towards shared global histories of play: D-Day and Operation Overlord in Digital Games
In the week of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, academics from across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and...