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Germany in a global context

A new perspective on German history is changing the way in which we see the country's present, as well as its past.

Where empires meet

How two 'rising powers' - China and Russia - interact across the border they share with resource-rich Mongolia is the focus of a network led by the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, as the researchers involved explain.

Britain’s island heritage: half a million years of history

The latest installment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Prehistoric migrants spread farming in Europe

Central and northern Europe’s first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.

Rethinking eccentricity

Miranda Gill traces shifting 19th-century perceptions of eccentricity, from its association with the intoxicating lure of modernity and fashion to the murky underworld of circus freaks and half-mad visionaries.

Muslim women face two-fronted struggle for equality

European Muslim women are proud to live in and belong to Europe, despite facing a daily struggle against prejudice from both within and outside their own communities, new research suggests.

The new geography of personality

Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a ‘personality map’ of the USA.

Weaving a web of world history

For five researchers embarking on the project 'Civilizations in Contact', finding the links between each of their specialist fields will provide unique insight into pre-modern world history.

Endangered dialects of Aramaic

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are lost forever.

Cosmopolitan cities of Eurasia

Research on the changing face of Eurasian cities – formerly famous for cosmopolitanism and now crossroads of migration – hopes to provide an understanding of their new social make-up.