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Analysis: Did Emily Brontë have a passionate love affair? No, don’t be daft
Writing in The Times, Professor John Mullan (UCL English Language & Literature) explains how author Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights was the product of her imagination, and not a passionate love affair as depicted in a recent film.
17 Oct 2022
UCL marks Black History Month 2022
To mark Black History Month 2022, UCL is hosting a series of free talks, seminars and social events across October - follow this page to find out more and keep up to date with events as they are announced.
03 Oct 2022
Mother and son pair team up for BBC’s University Challenge
UCL’s University Challenge team 2022-23 contains the programme’s first ever mother and son pair in its 60-year history.
28 Sep 2022
News from the faculty and departments
Decolonising the Curriculum Week 18 - 22 November
Join the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences and Faculty of Arts & Humanities for Decolonising the Curriculum Week 2019.
23 Oct 2019
60 seconds with... Joy Sleeman
Meet Joy Sleeman, Professor of Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art. Joy will be delivering her Inaugural Lecture 'The future in retrospect: Land art to the moon and back', on Tuesday 12 November. Read on for a sneak preview...
18 Oct 2019
60 seconds with... Kathryn Batchelor
Meet Kathryn Batchelor, Professor of Translation Studies at UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society. Kathryn will be delivering her Inaugural Lecture, 'Translation as Microhistory', on Tuesday 8 October. Read on for a sneak preview...
02 Oct 2019
Media coverage about UCL Arts & Humanities
Press Preview
Dr Brian Klaas (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) joins the Press Preview to review tomorrow's front pages.
05 Nov 2024
Black Arsenal’s beautiful history from Paul Davis and Ian Wright to Bukayo Saka
“He seemed to represent the every day and the commonplace that was Black, of course, but also transcended race in many ways as well,” said Dr Clive Nwonka (UCL Institute for Advanced Studies), on the historic importance of footballer Ian Wright to Arsenal.
01 Nov 2024
Putin presents himself as champion of the developing world at summit
“The main problem is that Russia has not been isolated morally. The Global South has remained generally deaf to Ukraine’s pain and its thirst for satisfaction and restoration of justice,” said Vladimir Pastukhov (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies).
25 Oct 2024