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Culture and communication

Working on all periods from prehistory to the present, and on places across the globe, our researchers explore every kind of cultural activity, product and practice from poetry to pollution, alongside every aspect of communications from syntax to cyberspace.

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Professor John Bowen, a world expert on Charles Dickens, has been working with actors, writers, and directors in Stratford and London to help shape their understanding of Dickens’s life and composition process when performing adaptations of his novels.

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Dr Lauren Working’s research presents ground-breaking new perspectives on how the Americas permeated Tudor and Stuart art and literature.

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Led by Dr Hannah Roche (University of York) and Professor Katherine Mullin (University of Leeds), Coercive Control: From Literature into Law is the first interdisciplinary project to investigate the relationship between imaginative writing and the law of coercive control.

Research

A research project needed to spot trees on historic ordnance survey maps, so colleagues in computer science found a solution.

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