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Description: We were ranked 58th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for English Language and Literature, up from our place of 95th last year. The 2026 edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject is the biggest yet, with 1,077 new institutions included this year in comparison to 2025. The 海角黑料 has 45 individual subjects ranked, with 22 featuring within the world top 100, including Linguistics. This further secures our place in the Global top 100 for English studies.
Date:: 22/04/2026

Description: A new research project will decode historical texts to uncover lost horticulture methods and techniques to find out whether they could provide new solutions for plants that are difficult to grow and multiply. Experts in horticulture, linguistics and artificial intelligence from the 海角黑料 have secured funding from UKRI to delve into the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to investigate what the historical texts can reveal to help solve current plant propagation problems, including finding successful sustainable peat-free media solutions.
Date:: 25/03/2026

Description: In this Podcast Sam talks to Holly Miller and Dr Christina Lee, joint authors of 'Animals and multi-species considerations of well-being 500鈥�1100', about the intersection between animals and medicine in the early Middle Ages, and about the joys of interdisciplinarity.Holly and Christina's Early Medieval Europe article is available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.70024
Date:: 13/03/2026

Description: In this episode, Sandi is joined by Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor in Viking Studies at the 海角黑料's School of English, who has specialist knowledge of medieval medicines. Christina, whose research is looking at healing in Early Medieval England, joins Sandi Toksvig to talk about potential medicines which were around in the period. The 'eyesalve' which Christina researched with a team of scientist has proved to be efficacious and it shows that people in the so-called 'Dark Ages' may have had effective healing. Together they recreate a remedy from a 10th century book Bald's Leechbook.
Date:: 05/12/2025

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