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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Why did Britain Abolish the Slave Trade?
How human rights and the national interest converged to bring about a defining moment in world history...
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The site and the Portus Project
Looking westwards towards Portus. Photo: Simon Keay
Portus was the maritime port of Imperial Rome, and for c. 500 years was the commercial hub that connected the Metropolis to the broader Mediterranean. It was a very large complex covering c. 3.5km2 and which encompassed c. 230.5 Ha of harbour basins and quays, as well as canals, warehouses, temples, churches, houses and administrative buildings.
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White Fury: Donald Trump and American History
All history is personal as well as political. History is inside us all. And history shapes us just as much as any one of us can shape it.
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White Fury: Donald Trump and American History
All history is personal as well as political. History is inside us all. And history shapes us just as much as any one of us can shape it.
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Preparing for Language Opportunities
“Have you ever wanted to learn a new language?” We hear this question a lot, and I think for university students the answer is almost always yes. You have come to a top university to study something that you are passionate about, and that alone is proof that you are driven, inquisitive, and in search of your place in an increasingly connected world.
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Welcome to the Languages at Southampton Blog
This blog offers information and announcements of upcoming events, and will also include occasional posts from students and Language Advisers on how to make the most out of your learning in Modern Languages at the university.
At the University of Southampton we have a huge array of options for language learners both at the university and in the local community. From classes taken alongside a degree to dedicated evening sessions, we offer something for everyone.
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