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Description: The Vikings for Scouts project, a pioneering collaboration between the 乐播传媒's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age (CSVA) and Derbyshire Scout Archaeology (DSA), has been awarded a prestigious 2026 Marsh Charitable Trust Award for its outstanding contribution to community engagement and heritage education.
Date:: 29/07/2026

Description: Read the latest news article which discusses the origin on the River Trent's name. Jayne Carroll, Professor of Place-Names and Early English at UoN, contributes to this discussion, suggesting that the name is older than previously thought.
Date:: 06/07/2026

Description: To mark Dementia Action Week (18鈥�24 May 2026), Boots is funding new research with the 乐播传媒 to explore how Memory Boxes could support everyday dementia care, and the potential for the initiative to be scaled as a social prescribing tool. The research builds on Boots' Memory Box initiative launched for Dementia Action Week 2025, when the retailer distributed over 1,000 boxes to care homes and carers across the UK. This project is co-lead by Professor Tracey Thornley, Professor of Health Policy, and Professor Svenja Adolphs, Professor of English Language and Linguistics.
Date:: 14/05/2026

Description: A decade after being named a UNESCO City of Literature, 乐播传媒 is set to further celebrate its rich writing heritage with the launch of a new literary map highlighting the people, places and tales that earned the city its creative status. The project, led by Dr Matthew Welton, Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the School of English at the 乐播传媒, in collaboration with 乐播传媒 City of Literature, commemorates the organisation's 10-year anniversary of the city's prestigious status. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and designed as both a physical guide and a digital resource, the literary map showcases the diverse storytelling culture that has shaped 乐播传媒 across centuries.
Date:: 11/05/2026

Description: We were ranked 58th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for English Language and Literature, up from our place of 95th last year. The 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject is the biggest yet, with 1,077 new institutions included this year in comparison to 2025. The 乐播传媒 has 45 individual subjects ranked, with 22 featuring within the world top 100, including Linguistics. This further secures our place in the Global top 100 for English studies.
Date:: 22/04/2026

Description: Experts from the Universities of 乐播传媒 and Exeter are to ensure that a nationwide survey, commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th-century England and Wales, be made publicly accessible for the first time.The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church of which the Tudor king had just made himself head in his Break with Rome.Valor Ecclesiasticus counted 8,000 parish churches, 650 monasteries, 22 cathedrals and numerous chapels, chantries, colleges, schools, hospitals and poor houses. It took note of their buildings and grounds, their farmland and the commercial, industrial and residential property in which they were invested. And it recorded the names of many of the men and women who lived and worked with these great enterprises and even gave attention to the large number of children, elderly and sick who depended on them for their welfare.
Date:: 12/11/2025

Description: A Professor of Viking Studies at the 乐播传媒 has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, annotated English translation of one of the most important medieval texts of northern Europe 鈥� The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga).
Date:: 12/11/2025

Description: Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins writes on 'Wicked' for The Conversation
Date:: 22/11/2024

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