Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others ‘Hers will I be, and onely with this thought                                Content my selfe, although my chance be nought’ Tottel’s Miscellany – the first printed anthology of English poetry – was published in 1557 and subsequently inspired many...

A galaxy is a collection of many millions of stars. Through a telescope they show an amazing variety of shapes, and the first step astronomers often take in understanding them is to classify them. Probably the best-known classification scheme is the Hubble Tuning Fork, which splits galaxies into ellipticals, and...

Few place names are as freighted with symbolism as Harlem. For much of the twentieth century, this neighbourhood at the northern tip of Manhattan occupied a unique place in the imagination of Americans and many other people across the globe. In 1900, Harlem had been an affluent, almost exclusively white...

Due to its relatively small cinematic output in comparison to other regions, East African cinema is hugely underrepresented in historical and analytical studies of African cinema as a whole. However, over the past decade, film industries have started to develop in countries such as Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Various forms...

Victorian architects and theorists made a clear distinction between ‘building’ and ‘architecture’: for them, a building became architecture only when historical references were invoked. The development of new constructive materials, in particular cast iron, directly challenged this perceived distinction. A new material possessed no history: how, therefore, could it be...

The Mongolian language and its script were split apart in the 1940s when the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets were politically imposed. However, the authentic, ‘traditional’, Mongolian writing system survived and is still used in publications today. In December 2005, a team of experts from the National University of Mongolia and...

Predominant right-handedness is a distinctive and defining feature of all living humans, yet we still don't know when or how it evolved. My research will address the question of the mysterious disappearance of our nearest evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, by tracing the origins and evolution of handedness in archaeological materials....

For the last two decades the world production of sugar cane has grown at an average annual rate of three per cent. Close to two billion tonnes of cane are now harvested per year with an increasing proportion of this finding its way into developed countries, including the UK, in...

The human brain represents the last great frontier to unlock the secrets of the human body. Scientifically it is by far the most studied organ and yet we still know relatively little about it. In recent years however neuroscience has been revolutionised by the introduction of ‘functional neuroimaging’ a collective...