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New PhD Placements: Greek Papyri in the British Library

13 January 2017 Medieval manuscripts

The British Library is offering a PhD placement opportunity for a student working on Greek papyri. This three-month placement will allow someone studying various aspects of Greek literature, papyrology, Late Antique history and religion to have first-hand experience with the...

Making hydrogen from wax

13 January 2017 Science

Philip recently attended an event for other Oxford University chemistry alumni, and one of the speakers drew attention to a recent publication from, among others, Oxford chemists, regarding the production of hydrogen from paraffin waxes by microwave degradation using a...

A New Acquisition: Celebrating 50 years of the Graphic Studio Dublin

13 January 2017 English and Drama

Jerry Jenkins, Curator of Emerging Media, Contemporary British Published Collections writes: In November 2016 I had the pleasure to attend “From Yeats to Heaney: Discovering 140 Years of Literature at the National Library of Ireland” hosted by Embassy of Ireland....

Science, Art and Insects: Maria Sibylla Merian

13 January 2017 European studies

Maria Sibylla Merian, who died 300 years ago today is justly remembered both as a pioneering naturalist and an entomological and botanical artist, and as a woman who made her mark in both art and science at a time when...