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World Book Day: creativity and teaching during COVID

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:51:18 GMT

On World Book Day (March 4) this year, Warwick’s student teachers will be in an online lesson of their own, using books and bookmaking to inspire ideas and creative methods of teaching, while they look forward to getting back into a real classroom later this spring.

Let's be as kind as we can to each other: a profile of filmmaker Lucy Brydon

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:49:29 GMT

Lucy Brydon is a director, a screenwriter, a teacher, a published author, and releases her debut feature film, Body of Water, this month.

The real Tatooine: Could there be life on other circumbinary planets?

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:38:10 GMT

From Gallifrey to Tatooine, planets with multiple suns feature widely in science fiction, but there are currently only ten real ‘circumbinary’ planets identified by space scientists. Dr David Armstrong from Warwick’s Astrophysics research group considers what we know about planets with two stars – and asks if life could exist there.

In defence of the census

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:27:00 GMT

The UK’s national statistician has suggested that next year’s census could be our last. After 200 years of officially documenting Britain’s households, it may be scrapped in favour of cheaper and easier ways of collecting the data. Professor Sarah Richardson from Warwick’s Department of History explains why we should mourn the loss of the decennial census.

How a French ghost story influenced Dickens

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:16:38 GMT

A Christmas Carol isn’t the only spine-chilling Christmas ghost story from the pen of Charles Dickens, writes Dr Fabio Camilletti.

Five things you need to know about the Peterloo Massacre

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:03:22 GMT

In August 1819, 600,000 people marched peacefully to St Peters Field in central Manchester to hear a speech about electoral reform. The orator, Henry Hunt, addressed the crowd at 2pm – twenty minutes later eighteen were dead and more than six hundred injured. Here’s five things you should know...

Fantasmagoriana: the German book of ghost stories that inspired Frankenstein

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:31:08 GMT

Dr Fabio Camilletti explores how the reading of a book of German ghost stories led to the invention of modern horror :Polidori’s story, The Vampyre, and 18-year-old Mary Shelley's classic, Frankenstein

Five things about the modern Vampire's Italian heritage

Tue, 22 May 2018 08:30:00 GMT

Five things you may not know about the Italian roots of the modern vampire.

Shakespeare's View of the World

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:30:00 GMT

Even 402 years after his death, Shakespeare still has much to say on modern issues. Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick and is using Shakespeare’s works to further the understanding of one evergreen issue in human geography: Territory.

Connecting two cultures: Different chapter - same complex story

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:30:00 GMT

James Hodkinson is an expert in German literature and history. No, not that bit of German history. His focus is on pre-20th Century Germany’s relationship with Islam.