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Modern editions of Shakespeare reproduce his 'sources'. Few know that this now ubiquitous practice was begun by Charlotte Lennox, whose Shakespear Illustrated (1753-54) included translations of source-texts by Boccaccio, Ariosto, Plautus, Chaucer, and more. This project analyses what Lennox’s pioneering role as translator-critic reveals about Shakespeare's growing eighteenth-century reception as national icon and developing traditions of source study. It offers a pan-European Shakespeare by recovering the ways that Lennox’s work foregrounds his uses and abuses of European vernacular literatures. Shakespeare’s Clio illuminates Lennox’s craft and legacy as translator-critic, as well as contributing to a longer history of Shakespearean source studies.

 

The project involves developing a poetry anthology for care home residents, staff, visitors (family members of residents) in order to promote person-centred care and wellbeing (care home residents often don’t have regular access to meaningful activities in care homes). 

Four focus groups will be run with care home staff, visitors and residents to determine the contents and design of the anthology. Once designed, the anthology will be trialled with participants in a local residential care and memory café. Feedback from the trials of the anthology will be used to produce a final version of the anthology, which will then be distributed to the care home and memory café.

The second phase of the research will involve rolling out the anthology to care homes across Nottinghamshire, as well as using the anthology in CPD activities for care home staff (who might not be versed in poetry therapy and poetry-related activities with residents).

 This project aims to enhance immunisation communications by refining message design, developing best-practice blueprints, and creating training resources. It builds on the approaches, findings, and outputs of the AHRC-funded project . This work is carried out in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and its pan-London ‘Why We Get Vaccinated’ (2024-2027) campaign.

This research collaboration enables UKHSA to combine insights from behavioural science with our innovative linguistic methodologies to strengthen the campaign, improve health outcomes, and amplify the voices of vulnerable populations.

Arts and Humanities Research Council

Project duration: 11/01/2024 - 10/31/2025
Principal Investigator: Prof Justin Smith (De Montfort University) 

Co-Investigator: Dr Anna Blackwell

 

There is an urgent need for the development of new microbials to fight bacterial infections, which have now become resistant to modern antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) now poses a serious threat to our health, especially to those of us with suppressed immune systems.

Trying to find solutions can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and so we ponder - would remedies considered 'effective' in the past have anything to offer us in the present?

Ancientbiotics therefore works to quite literally 'Unlock the Medieval Medicine Cabinet' - we wish to explore the miraculous remedies of the past in order to combat modern ailments. Medicine and Medical thinking was very different in the past, and is not to be confused with modern, clinical approaches. Yet, despite popular belief, people did care about the sick at all times throughout human history.

Our cross-disciplinary team of historians, medievalists, biologists and more therefore work to uncover these remedies, using ancient and medieval works (up to c. 1700s) combined with laboratory scientific analyses. This should not be confused with alternative medicine and should not be attempted at home.

This research project aims to create an accessible version of Henry VIII's nationwide survey on property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church of which the Tudor king had just made himself head in his Break with Rome.
With a grant of almost £1.5m from the UK Research & Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the three-year long project – Rediscovering the Tudor Domesday – will present the complete, nationwide survey on a free-to-access website. Users will be able to explore every locality in England and Wales as they were in Tudor times. This is a collaborative project by experts from the Univeristy of Nottingham , Exeter, Reading, and The National Archives. 

This project celebrates Nottingham’s literary heritage and the 10-year anniversary of Nottingham’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature through the creation of a map, accessible in three forms. 

The map will take one print and two digital forms. Each version will highlight the conventional literary achievements of Nottingham and will prioritise EDI issues, seeking to represent writers and organisations from a breadth of cultural backgrounds and of literary history and activity. The digital versions could also include societal, economic and cultural data, enabling partners to overlay information to celebrate Nottingham and prompt conversations about prioritising cultural offerings and education. 

The Survey of English Place-Names was established in the 1920s and has enjoyed the British Academy's support since then. Its aims are to publish volumes on place-names across England, on a county-by-county basis. To date 95 volumes have ben published, covering most or all of 32 counties. Work is ongoing for Hampshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Somerset and Staffordshire.