Cambridge author Stanley Gaines, Jr. discusses how much of an influence your partner can have on your own personality.
I’ve been teaching undergraduates for almost 25 years, and every year one of my lectures holds my students’ attention more than any other. My students are rapt, at times laughing, at times seemingly...
Jim Kozubek, author of "Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9" talks about the infamous Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The magnificent collection of Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts, notebooks, letters and other material held here at Reading was fundamental to the research for my new book Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts,...
On 1st June, Professor David Fastovsky, co-author of Dinosaurs, hosted in an exciting Reddit IAmA session. Users had the opportunity to ask palaeontology and dinosaur-related questions in a live Q&A. Here are the best questions and answers...
David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter.
What determines the ultimate balance in the inner conflict between the truth-seeking motive on the one hand [...] and on the other hand our obvious tendencies to systematically distort reality?
Following moving to partial retirement from my full time position at the University of Waikato, I decided to undertake a range of “extracurricular” activities. These included participating in a Board...
For the 100th anniversary of Richard Feynman's birth Tony Hey author of The New Quantum Universe 2nd Edition, 2003 looks at the accomplishments and legacy of this infamous physicist as well as his personal and professional history with Richard Feynman
2019 marks the tercentenary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel that achieved instant popularity in Britain (Defoe wrote a sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which appeared...
Robed in elegant shades of green and purple, Christ stands holding a gospel book beneath an arch decorated with interlace. Below this portrait, a prayer has been written in a fine Carolingian minuscule,...
In 1859, more than 400 enslaved people – men, women and 30 babies – from the Butler plantation estates of the Georgia Sea islands were sold on the auction block in Savannah, Georgia. My new book is...