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  • The battlefield of Edgcote in Northamptonshire, fought on 24 July 1469 between forces loyal to the Yorkist king Edward IV and northern rebels allied to the earl of Warwick.

    Historic England Blog on the Register of Historic Battlefields

    13th June 2025

    A Historic England Blog post by OU historian David Grummitt celebrates the 30th anniversary of Historic England’s Register of Historic Battlefields

  • The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History

    10th June 2025

    Book cover with a maroon and grey background and the title at the top. The feature image is in the centre, it is an abstract art work with men suspended in mid air against a backdrop of building facades

  • Magic Art - A New Enquiry

    10th June 2025

    Dr Robert J. Wallis, Senior Lecturer in Art History, contributes to the first English translation of André Breton’s L’Art magique.

  • Image of a paperback hand held book being read

    Can Books Heal? A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast, with OU English academics

    9th June 2025

    OU English researchers Sara Haslam and Edmund King were heavily featured contributors in this podcast on 3000 years of the history of the healing book. Part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s programme of contemporary thought, CBC Ideas, ‘Do books have the power to heal us?’ took listeners back to Pharaoh Rameses II in its contextualised history of bibliotherapy - the inscription ‘healing place of the soul’ was placed above the portal of Rameses’ library. Edmund King brought the story up to date before conversation moved to a focused account of what Sara Haslam has termed ‘literary caregiving’ during the First World War. 

  • OpenARC logo, dome with sunlight coming through the roof, with text OpenARC on the top left corner

    OpenARC holds the first Festival of the Arts and Humanities

    23rd May 2025

    OpenARC held its first ever Festival, celebrating the research, broadcast work, public engagement and impact in the School of the Arts and Humanities.

  • New book: Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood

    7th May 2025

    A new book on opera and film composer Erich Korngold (1897-1957), written by Music lecturer Ben Winters, has been published by Oxford University Press in their Music/Media series.

  • 2 participants with Julia Wheeler at the Moderator training day

    MK LitFest Moderator Training event at Walton Hall

    16th April 2025

    MK LitFest and the OU welcomed journalist Julia Wheeler to Walton Hall for a session of training in moderation skills. 

  • The other Pompeii: British Academy Summer Showcase exhibition

    9th April 2025

    Open University Classical Studies academic Dr Jessica Hughes has curated an exhibition, ‘The Other Pompeii: religion and archaelogy in the nineteenth century’, as part of this year’s British Academy Summer Showcase (20-21 June 2025)

  • Title card of "Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys" with the front cover of the book.

    Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys

    8th April 2025

    Dr Laura Hamer has published a new CUP Women in Music Element, "Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys".

  • Collage with pictures of polar bears and a period landscape stuck to cardboard

    ‘Art and Ecology’ connects people and climate

    17th March 2025

    OU art historians work with local people in Perthshire to reflect on climate change in new ways. 

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