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Why Humanity Needs Humanities…

A short (2min) video about why Humanities research and education are important: It is a cut-down version of the longer talk that featured in this post and a sort of rough draft of a more polished video that I’m currently … Continue reading... Continue reading →

Teaching Mandela

During the early weeks of the pandemic at the University of Southampton, as our teaching went online and we planned for the possible effects of the health crisis, the History department made sure all of its modules were taught by … Continue reading... Continue reading →

The Plantation

A short introduction to the institution at the centre of the Atlantic slave system. Continue reading →

Atlantic Slavery

An illustrated overview of the Atlantic slave system, by S&R editor, Christer Petley. This was first recorded earlier in the year for the new University of Southampton first-year undergraduate module, Racism and Resistance: Slavery to BLM. Continue reading →

Good Essay Structure

How to structure your work so that you can write better university or college essays. Continue reading →

Bad Essays

How to avoid them. Advice from an experienced marker of essays about how to avoid the most common mistakes made each year by undergraduate students when they sit down to write. Continue reading →

Bad Essays

How to avoid them. Advice from an experienced marker of essays about how to avoid the most common mistakes made each year by undergraduate students when they sit down to write. Continue reading →

Write Good Essays and Learn to Argue

All students need to know how to do these things, but it is not always easy to know how to argue in a university essay. Continue reading →

Why Humanities Matter

Why are the humanities essential to addressing global challenges? How can subjects like History, English, or Philosophy equip you with skills you need to face the future? This short film by S&R editor Christer Petley looks at those questions while … Continue reading... Continue reading →

Towards a New Understanding of the Port of Claudius

The new programme of research in the Claudian harbour is focused on the central and eastern parts of the northern mole, estimated at least 1.7km in length. The previous campaigns between 2017-2019 to the west of Viale Coccia di Morto were successful in using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) and 3 targeted cores to provide additional detail to the data collected by the Soprintendenza in 2007-8. Continue reading →

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Why Humanity Needs Humanities…

Teaching Mandela

The Plantation

Atlantic Slavery

Good Essay Structure

Bad Essays

Bad Essays

Write Good Essays and Learn to Argue

Why Humanities Matter

Towards a New Understanding of the Port of Claudius