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'Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain' play at the Garrick Theatre, London, Britain

How young academics are breathing new life into Horrible Histories

As the celebrated children’s historical sketch show marks its 15th anniversary, Jack Grove speaks to its head writer, history producer and PhD researchers on how scholarly sleuthing has been crucial to its long success

By Jack Grove

25 April

Concept of pages flying from a book held by a woman to illustrate REF rules on open access books will have major consequences

Open-access books will push art history out of the picture

Extra costs linked to proposed new Research Excellence Framework rules could send art history departments to the wall, warns Francesca Berry

By Francesca Berry

10 April

Will the global culture wars save the humanities or destroy them?

Attacks by the likes of Donald Trump and Narendra Modi on how the humanities are taught speak to the enduring political power of these subjects despite their precarity within the academy, says Saikat Majumdar

By Saikat Majumdar

29 February

Richard Sennett: ‘I’ve always felt like a fish out of water in academia’

The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett tells Matthew Reisz about how his former career as a cellist inspired his latest trilogy of books, why his ideal university would be more night school than Oxbridge college and why it helps him to imagine his readers as female biologists

By Matthew Reisz

15 February

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