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Digital Humanities Institute travel to the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken for the second MSCA doctoral network training camp

Find out more about the second CASCADE training camp, where groups of researchers exchange ideas and perspectives about interdisciplinary methods that could be used to analyse how language expresses meaning in various, changing contexts over time.
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R. I. (Bob) Moore (1941-2025)

We are very sad to share the news that Bob Moore, who was a Professor of History at Sheffield University, has passed away.
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New Beliefless Spirituality Project to investigate forms of spirituality underpinned by states other than explicit religious or spiritual beliefs

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Winners of School Essay Prize Competition Announced

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Philosophy essay prize. The competition is open to school years 10, 11 and 12 and is run annually by the Department of Philosophy.
The mass grave near Immingham contains the remains of at least 48 men, women and children

Black Death 'Plague Pit' discovered at 14th-century monastery hospital

A mass burial of bodies, known to be victims of the Black Death, has been discovered at the site of a 14th-century monastery hospital at Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire.
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Undergraduates to collaborate with academic staff on SURE research projects