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Catalan Atlas showing the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea, 1375

Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe

04 Dec 2025

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation...

Globalised economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse: study

26 Oct 2020

The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be...

Robots and carbon targets may signal the end of globalisation

17 May 2017

A new book suggests there is early evidence of a coming U-turn in the globalisation of manufacturing – and that the story we are told about the...

New evidence of suicide epidemic among India’s ‘marginalised’ farmers

17 Apr 2014

Latest statistical research finds strong causal links between areas with the most suicides and areas where impoverished farmers are trying to grow...

African Horse Sickness: mapping how a deadly disease might spread in the UK

25 May 2013

A disease lethal to horses, until now confined to hot countries, could arrive in the UK. New research creates a picture of its possible spread and...

Lessons from history: how Europe did (and didn’t) grow rich

24 Mar 2013

The Industrial Revolution is seen as the spark that lit Europe’s economic prosperity. In her analysis of markets over many hundreds of years...

Challenging “us versus them”

19 Oct 2012

A series of programmes which aim to address and counteract radical thought in British youth is now being adapted for use across Europe.

Living with the Inugguit

25 Nov 2011

A film documenting the disappearing oral traditions of the northernmost settled people on Earth offers a glimpse into how their way of life is...

Death by monoculture

02 Sep 2011

Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen...

Huangpu River, Shanghai from a China Navigation Company steamship

Tracing the history of modern globalisation in China

01 May 2008

A Sino-British project is examining the history of China’s first age of modern globalisation, enabling China and Britain to rediscover their...

Globalisation today: Chinese big business

01 May 2008

This year is the 30th anniversary of China’s policy of ‘reform and open up’. What has happened to China’s strategic industries and how competitive are...

globalisation

Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe

Globalised economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse: study

Robots and carbon targets may signal the end of globalisation

New evidence of suicide epidemic among India’s ‘marginalised’ farmers

African Horse Sickness: mapping how a deadly disease might spread in the UK

Lessons from history: how Europe did (and didn’t) grow rich

Challenging “us versus them”

Living with the Inugguit

Death by monoculture

Tracing the history of modern globalisation in China

Globalisation today: Chinese big business

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