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The power of research

12 May 2022

Celebrating research power in Research Excellence Framework 2021

Historian sets scene for autobiographical production by Welsh dramatist

10 May 2022

Cardiff lecturer shares insights in National Theatre talk

Persians: Definitive new history of the world’s first superpower published

7 April 2022

Latest book from internationally renowned ancient history expert details largest of the ancient empires

Art That Made Us

30 March 2022

Cardiff historian contributes to landmark television series telling an alternative history of the British Isles

Conservation experts support Tunisian heritage

29 March 2022

Conservator-academics deliver conservation training for heritage management professionals in North Africa

Pandemics past and present: How do we endure and what can new archaeological investigation of the Black Death reveal?

24 March 2022

ENDURE set to reveal the uneven impact of the Black Death with parallels apparent for 21st century global pandemic experience

Three communities living near historic iron age hillforts join forces for new collaborative project

24 March 2022

Residents living near ancient landmarks will learn and create together

Making our own monuments

20 December 2021

What Glastonbury Festival’s Swan Circle says about us

Runes and the riddle of the Anglo-Saxon pendant

16 December 2021

Cardiff archaeologist discusses a puzzling Anglo-Saxon name inscribed on 1,000 year-old cross found during pandemic

Much more than mummies: colossal research reveals Bronze Age life on outer edges of Britain

13 December 2021

New book from the team behind Cladh Hallan research sequences the roundhouse way of life in prehistoric South Uist