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New edition of Edmund Spenser’s Complaints published
This article describes a new edition of the English poet, Edmund Spenser’s 1591 collection, Complaints, co-edited by Professor Richard Danson Brown. The edition includes some of Spenser’s most controversial work.
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OU historian wins 2026 Gerald L. Strauss Prize
Róisín Watson, Lecturer in History, has been awarded the Gerald L. Strauss prize by The Sixteenth Century Society for her first monograph The Beauty of Belief.
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Jessica Hughes publishes new book Our Lady of Pompeii
A new book by Open University Classical Studies academic Jessica Hughes, Our Lady of Pompeii: Ruins, Religion, and Memory, has been published by Oxford University Press.
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies published
This handbook offers broad introductions to the different digital methods and tools that have appeared and evolved over the last forty years, as well as case studies that demonstrate various ways in which digital applications in both theory and practice have impacted Classical scholarship.
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OU Classical Studies journal selected to launch Scottish Universities Press journal programme
The Open University's Classical Studies journal, ‘New Voices in Classical Reception Studies’, has been selected as the pilot journal for Scottish Universities Press’s (SUP) new journal publishing programme.
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The OU Literature Podcast now live!
The new English and Creative Writing podcast: re: reading – The OU Literature Podcast is now live and available from all major podcast services.
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OU Art Historian helps people reconnect with the natural world
How can heritage help nature thrive? OU art historian explores the links between National Trust collections and nature recovery projects.
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Music academic publishes new research on an unknown composer
On 25 March, the feast of the Annunciation, the congregation of a small church in Oxford heard music by Paolo Papini for the first time in over four hundred years. Ensemble Res Sacra led by Thomas Neal sang three pieces by Papini that I transcribed from manuscript as part of my research on music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome. The hospital was a large charitable institution founded to care for abandoned infants and orphans and the sick poor but was also musically active employing a professional choir and organist.
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Creative Writing academic has been shortlisted for the Aurora Metro Virginia Prize for Fiction
Emily Bullock, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, has been shortlisted for the Aurora Metro Virginia Prize for Fiction with her manuscript: For Always Only.
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OU Creative Writers focus on the environment and climate change
Creative Writers in the department of English & Creative Writing are involved in research and writing projects that draw attention to local effects of climate change and focus public attention on the environment.
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