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From the casebooks of the most notorious astrologer doctors in all England

16 May 2019

A ten-year project to study and digitise some 80,000 cases recorded by two famous astrological physicians has opened a “wormhole” into the worries and...

‘Murder map’ reveals medieval London’s meanest streets

28 Nov 2018

First digital map of the murders recorded by the city's Coroner in early 1300s shows Cheapside and Cornhill were homicide ‘hot spots’, and Sundays...

Suffering from pre-eclampsia, this young mother had to undergo a Caesarean to deliver her twin boys, seen here in the arms of her mother (Malawi)

Under pressure: the battle to have a baby in Africa

16 Feb 2017

A complication of pregnancy that causes the mother’s blood pressure to rise – often fatally – is more common in women of African descent than any...

Elvis is alive and the Moon landings were faked: the (conspiracy) theory of everything

25 Oct 2016

As a global population we are awash with conspiracy theories. But what effect do these really have on the public as we go about our day-to-day lives...

The Whistle: verifying digital evidence of human rights violations

12 Oct 2016

Smartphones and social media have made it easy for accidental witnesses “in the wrong place at the wrong time” to capture and share violations and...

When is a book not a book?

10 Oct 2016

The e-book has made continued inroads into the publishing world but the printed book has defied predictions of its death. Research by Professor John...

How to read a digital footprint

23 Jun 2015

Researchers are using social media data to build a picture of the personalities of millions, changing core ideas of how psychological profiling works...

Visions of plague

05 Dec 2014

A new research project is compiling the largest database of plague imagery ever amassed, focusing on a pandemic that peaked in the early 20th century...

The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world

18 Jul 2013

It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century - and captivated the British public during an...

Welsh Twitter: capturing language change in real time

29 May 2013

A database of Welsh tweets is being used to identify the characteristics of an evolving language.

Maori paddles collected on Captain Cook's first voyage

Captain Cook’s Maori paddles: an artefact of encounter

22 May 2013

Maori paddles presented to Captain Cook’s crew on their first voyage of discovery capture the spirit of a first encounter between two cultures.

A screenshot from the 1971 British gangster film Villain, starring Richard Burton. Dir. Michael Tuchner

Cinematic geographies of Battersea

07 May 2013

Research is combining film ‘archaeology’ with digital technology to create a new approach to ‘sites of memory’ for the London borough of Battersea.

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From the casebooks of the most notorious astrologer doctors in all England

‘Murder map’ reveals medieval London’s meanest streets

Under pressure: the battle to have a baby in Africa

Elvis is alive and the Moon landings were faked: the (conspiracy) theory of everything

The Whistle: verifying digital evidence of human rights violations

When is a book not a book?

How to read a digital footprint

Visions of plague

The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world

Welsh Twitter: capturing language change in real time

Captain Cook’s Maori paddles: an artefact of encounter

Cinematic geographies of Battersea

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