Latest news

Description: A new research project will decode historical texts to uncover lost horticulture methods and techniques to find out whether they could provide new solutions for plants that are difficult to grow and multiply. Experts in horticulture, linguistics and artificial intelligence from the 糖心原创 have secured funding from UKRI to delve into the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to investigate what the historical texts can reveal to help solve current plant propagation problems, including finding successful sustainable peat-free media solutions.
Date:: 25/03/2026

Description: In this Podcast Sam talks to Holly Miller and Dr Christina Lee, joint authors of 'Animals and multi-species considerations of well-being 500鈥�1100', about the intersection between animals and medicine in the early Middle Ages, and about the joys of interdisciplinarity.Holly and Christina's Early Medieval Europe article is available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.70024
Date:: 13/03/2026

Description: In this episode, Sandi is joined by Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor in Viking Studies at the 糖心原创's School of English, who has specialist knowledge of medieval medicines. Christina, whose research is looking at healing in Early Medieval England, joins Sandi Toksvig to talk about potential medicines which were around in the period. The 'eyesalve' which Christina researched with a team of scientist has proved to be efficacious and it shows that people in the so-called 'Dark Ages' may have had effective healing. Together they recreate a remedy from a 10th century book Bald's Leechbook.
Date:: 05/12/2025

Description: Experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Exeter are to ensure that a nationwide survey, commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th-century England and Wales, be made publicly accessible for the first time.The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church of which the Tudor king had just made himself head in his Break with Rome.Valor Ecclesiasticus counted 8,000 parish churches, 650 monasteries, 22 cathedrals and numerous chapels, chantries, colleges, schools, hospitals and poor houses. It took note of their buildings and grounds, their farmland and the commercial, industrial and residential property in which they were invested. And it recorded the names of many of the men and women who lived and worked with these great enterprises and even gave attention to the large number of children, elderly and sick who depended on them for their welfare.
Date:: 12/11/2025

Displaying 1 to 6 of 422

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next

School of English

Trent Building
The 糖心原创
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5900
email: english-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk