Articles about 'Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)'

Project lead Dr Jonathan Duquette on the Kaveri river

Indian literary genius survived imperialism in forgotten villages

16 October 2025

‘Pundits’ kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research project will show. The largely forgotten literary figures and their works – ranging from erotic plays to legal treatises – are neglected treasures of Indian intellectual achievement.

The Public Map Platform’s outdoor engagement activities, Lle Llais, on Anglesey

Public Map Platform supporting green transition secures major funding

12 September 2025

A team led by Professor Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded a further Green Transition Ecosystem grant of £3.12 million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a Public Map Platform to chart the green transition on the Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn.

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census

13 May 2021

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census.

The city rises: Cambridge archaeologists reveal an entire Roman city without digging

09 June 2020

For the first time, a team of archaeologists has succeeded in mapping a complete Roman city, Falerii Novi in Italy, using advanced ground penetrating radar. Their approach could revolutionise the study of ancient settlements.

Research at the chalk face: connecting academia and schools

25 March 2019

Researchers in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education are working with teachers to improve the experience of learning in the East of England – and boost pupils’ life chances.

Faculty of English on the University's Sidgwick Site, home to many of the faculties and departments from the School of Arts and Humanities.

Funding announced for almost 400 new doctoral places in arts and humanities

15 August 2018

The Open University, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge are pleased to announce the success of their bid for funding for the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership, which will create nearly 400 new doctoral places in the arts and humanities.

Epic issues: epic poetry from the dawn of modernity

02 August 2018

Epic poems telling of cultures colliding, deeply conflicted identities and a fast-changing world were written by the Greeks under Roman rule in the first to the sixth centuries CE. Now, the first comprehensive study of these vast, complex texts is casting new light on the era that saw the dawn of Western modernity.

Time travelling to the mother tongue

19 July 2016

The sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary new way.

Cambridge to explore benefits of multilingualism with new AHRC research project

22 March 2016

The University of Cambridge is to launch a major new research project to study the benefits of multilingualism to individuals and society, and transform attitudes to languages in the UK, as part of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative.

General Sir Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem in December 1917. The widely-circulated image of him entering the Old City on foot conjured up images of Christ-like humility in the Bible in a calculated attempt to win over hearts and minds.

A conflict of Biblical proportions: How the Bible was used to turn the First World War into a Holy War

08 November 2015

The significance of the Bible in the war, and anti-war efforts, of both Allied and Central powers in the First World War are to be examined in a new research project, which will document ways in which scripture was used to create notions of a Holy War, and how views of the Bible changed as a result of the conflict.

Articles about 'Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)'

Indian literary genius survived imperialism in forgotten villages

Public Map Platform supporting green transition secures major funding

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census

The city rises: Cambridge archaeologists reveal an entire Roman city without digging

Research at the chalk face: connecting academia and schools

Funding announced for almost 400 new doctoral places in arts and humanities

Epic issues: epic poetry from the dawn of modernity

Time travelling to the mother tongue

Cambridge to explore benefits of multilingualism with new AHRC research project

A conflict of Biblical proportions: How the Bible was used to turn the First World War into a Holy War

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