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Afraid of the dark? A silent night without nature is much scarier

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2 June 20252 June 2025

Tina O’Connell, Associate Professor in Art at the University of Reading, and Neal White, Professor of Art/Science at the University of Westminster, explain how artists and scientists are joining forces...Read More >

UK film and TV boom hides a crisis that threatens the whole industry – new report

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21 May 202521 May 2025

Judging by the recent success of UK productions like Adolescence and Baby Reindeer, you might assume that the UK film and television industry is flourishing. And indeed, spending on production...Read More >

Sparks of innovation: reflections on the Creative Entrepreneur in Residence Programme

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8 May 202512 May 2025

Back in early 2022, we welcomed Tim Powell to Reading as our Creative Entrepreneur in Residence. In this role, Tim would work with colleagues across the Heritage & Creativity research...Read More >

Tove Jansson’s Moomin books explore the power of adventure and transformation

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29 April 202530 April 2025

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood. In the book, Moomintroll and his friends embark on a journey to find...Read More >

Reading the world differently: eight books to broaden your mind

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28 April 202528 April 2025

Expand your reading list this spring and summer with some thought-provoking new works! Throughout the past month, our #readingatReading campaign has explored recently published books by University of Reading researchers....Read More >

Five ways you can support the British film and TV industry

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10 April 202515 April 2025

A new report from Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee details the challenges facing the British film and TV industry and makes recommendations for how to protect it. In...Read More >

Melsonby hoard: iron-age Yorkshire discovery reveals ancient Britons’ connections with Europe

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2 April 20251 April 2025

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 iron-age metal artefacts, which was found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in December 2021. Its discovery represents...Read More >

Women stood alongside striking miners – it’s time their stories were told

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3 March 2025

When we look back on the 1984-85 miners' strike, we often see pictures of masculinity: men with banners, confrontations at pit gates and proud marches back to work. Four decades...Read More >

Beyond the written word: how the video essay transformed my engagement with history

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26 February 202526 February 2025

Standing before an audience of historians at the American Historical Association (AHA) annual conference in New York City in January 2025, I experienced a moment of both exhilaration and trepidation....Read More >

Just Stop Oil’s protest during The Tempest is an extension of theatre’s radical tradition

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5 February 202525 February 2025

The theatre has long staged and debated society’s most pressing concerns. But when protest moves beyond the script and into the theatre itself, the reaction can shift from applause to...Read More >

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