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Visualising Research

06 December 2013 Science blog

This week we are excited to announce the launch of a data visualisation competition (and workshop), sponsored by the AHRC and BBSRC We talk quite a lot about data on the Science Blog and have previously highlighted the role we...

Rescuing the Rivonia Trial recordings

06 December 2013 Sound and vision blog

A recording of Nelson Mandela’s remarkable speech delivered during the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1963-4, frequently quoted since his death last night at the age of 95, was heard for the first time in 2001 thanks to the British Library....

Not only for Christmas: St. Nicholas in East and West

06 December 2013 European studies blog

If you happen to be a schoolboy, a sailor, a thief, a pawnbroker or a victim of injustice today is your lucky day. December 6th is the feast of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, who is the patron of all...

Cultivator or inventor?

06 December 2013 Untold lives blog

The cinchona plant was introduced from South America to India in 1860: a response to urgent need. The Government of India was in search of a cheap drug for malaria, a disease that killed millions of people in India every...