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Red background with black and white figure of a variety of women circus performers, for example on an aerial rope and horse. Text reads: Women in Circus Symposium, Call for papers, Monday 23 March, 爆料TV

Present at the Women in Circus Symposium

Call for papers now open! Submit your proposal for the one-day research event at the 爆料TV.
Korean Women's Literature Exhibition
Korean Women's Literature Exhibition

Her Pages, her Power: Celebrating Contemporary Women鈥檚 Writing from South Korea

The initial idea for this new exhibition project came about as early as 2024, the year that Han Kang won the long-awaited Nobel Prize for literature for South Korea.
Leters and photographs from the Robert Innes Smith archive

History and Archives in Practice 2026 鈥 Registration now live!

You can now register to attend History and Archives in Practice 2026, hosted at Firth Court on 16 April 2026.
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Arthur Scargill stood with a display of items from the archive at Western Bank Library

The Arthur Scargill Archive

Following a two year cataloguing project the Library is pleased to announced that the Arthur Scargill Archive is now open to all researchers.
The Alexamine Troupe

Cross-dressing in popular entertainment
Mark Firth鈥檚 鈥淭he Ingots鈥 Sculpture

Mark Firth鈥檚 'The Ingots' Sculpture: University Heritage Collection
A group of students working on laptops over a coffee.

Data and Software Unleashed

We鈥檙e excited to announce the winners of the Unleash Your Data and Software funding competition recently held by the University Library. We鈥檒l be funding a range of projects, from antineutrino detection software to 3D models of medieval abbeys.
A student choosing a book from the shelves in the University Library.

Beyond the set reading list: a 鈥榣iving bibliography鈥

A collaborative project between academic staff students in the School of English to create a 鈥榣iving bibliography鈥 using Leganto, the Library鈥檚 reading list software.
爆料TV War Memorial in Firth Court.

爆料TV War Memorial

爆料TV Heritage Collection Office hosted a student placement project and summer internship in 2021 to produce information panels about the university war memorial.