Britain

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Black British Voices: the findings

28 Sep 2023

The largest survey to date of the opinions and attitudes of Black people in Britain has revealed a central split on the question of British pride.

Parasites from feasting at Stonehenge found in prehistoric faeces

20 May 2022

A study of ancient faeces uncovered at a settlement thought to have housed builders of Stonehenge suggests that parasites got consumed via badly-...

“We can’t put our trust in a system that doesn’t hear us”

24 May 2021

Major survey on Black British life launched by Cambridge University and The Voice newspaper.

Austerity cuts ‘twice as deep’ in England as rest of Britain

09 Oct 2018

Research finds significant inequalities in cuts to council services across the country, with deprived areas in the north of England and London seeing...

Marianne Grunfeld was born in Poland to a German-Jewish family before taking a farm job in Guernsey in 1939. She was deported in 1942 and was murdered in Auschwitz, Credit: None

Exhibition highlights the untold story of Nazi victims in the Channel Islands

19 Oct 2017

The untold stories of slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during...

Opinion: Why both sides are wrong in the counter-extremism debate

07 Mar 2016

Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies) discusses the Government's Prevent strategy and counter-extremism in Britain.

London Central Mosque, Credit: AwayWeGo210

From halal to hip-hop: Muslim life in the UK and Europe comes under the microscope

15 May 2014

Halal meat, the representation of Islam in the British press, and female, Muslim hip-hop artists will all be topics of discussion at a three-day...

Home from home: minor moves make major differences

26 Feb 2014

Most of the moves we make are within 5 km of our previous addresses, yet these short migrations are highly significant within individual lives. New...

Female conversion to Islam in Britain examined in unique research project

17 May 2013

A ground-breaking report examining the experiences of nearly 50 British women of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and faiths (or no faith) – who...

Has the nation reached its sell-by date?

09 May 2013

Dr Malachi McIntosh, Lecturer in Postcolonial and Related Literatures, wonders what Britishness is, as Granta magazine publishes its influential...

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...

Vikings offered early lessons in effective immigration

13 Mar 2009

New evidence which reveals how the Vikings successfully blended into British and Irish culture long before they were consigned to history as barbaric...