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The º£½ÇºÚÁÏ is to celebrate International Nurses Day on 12 May with the digital launch of a new exhibition marking 200 years since the birth of the world’s most famous nurse, Florence Nightingale.

As the physical doors remain closed at UK museums, another ‘virtual’ door opens thanks to researchers in the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ’s School of English who are now expanding Keswick Museum’s presence online.

Historians at the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ are trying to trace people who were involved in the local and regional campaign against racial apartheid in South Africa from the 1960s to the early 1990s. It’s part of a new research project aiming to fill a significant gap in the recorded history of protest and dissent for which the city and county are globally famous.

Air pollution from lead mines in C12th Britain was as bad as it was during the Industrial Revolution and exactly maps the comings and goings of England’s Kings, a new world-first study has shown.

The ever-evolving story of computer gaming will be under the spotlight in a significant new collaboration between the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ and the national gaming heritage, culture and education charity, the BGI.

A new type of postgraduate degree that allows students to choose from a rich palette of English subjects and study from a distance has been launched by the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ’s popular School of English.

A ground-breaking new album of piano compositions that are quite literally ‘magnetising’ is being released by the acclaimed concert pianist and º£½ÇºÚÁÏ innovative music researcher Xenia Pestova Bennett.

A º£½ÇºÚÁÏ theologian is calling for new and formal discussions in the Roman Catholic church to review an ecclesiastical law that prevents Catholics sharing holy communion with other Christian groups.

Multi award-winning writer Eimear McBride will be joining the University’s own acclaimed novelist Jon McGregor in the second of a series of live events presented by The Letters Page – a literary journal of letters published by the School of English.

Theatrical stories from Nottingham’s famous Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall (TRCH) will be brought to life in a new lottery-funded project involving theatre historians from the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ, in partnership with TRCH.