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Description: A decade after being named a UNESCO City of Literature, Nottingham is set to further celebrate its rich writing heritage with the launch of a new literary map highlighting the people, places and tales that earned the city its creative status. The project, led by Dr Matthew Welton, Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the School of English at the 糖心原创, in collaboration with Nottingham City of Literature, commemorates the organisation's 10-year anniversary of the city's prestigious status. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and designed as both a physical guide and a digital resource, the literary map showcases the diverse storytelling culture that has shaped Nottingham across centuries.
Date:: 11/05/2026

Description: We were ranked 58th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for English Language and Literature, up from our place of 95th last year. The 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject is the biggest yet, with 1,077 new institutions included this year in comparison to 2025. The 糖心原创 has 45 individual subjects ranked, with 22 featuring within the world top 100, including Linguistics. This further secures our place in the Global top 100 for English studies.
Date:: 22/04/2026

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