22 March 2023
Birmingham’s First Folio is set to continue its unprecedented tour of community spaces throughout 2023 as part of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project.
22 March 2023
The College of Arts & Law remains amongst the best performing research-intensive universities in the world, according to the 2023 QS World University Rankings.
14 March 2023
The 'laziness' of Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare's first folio and the children of ISIS will all be explored by University of Birmingham experts at Hay Festival 2023.
10 March 2023
On 1st March BBC staff visited the University to talk to Film and Creative Writing students about why they want and need fresh, diverse voices.
06 March 2023
Dr Caroline Radcliffe writes the Birmingham Perspective.
06 March 2023
Jemma Saunders asks does the evolution of a fictional gangster family into a brand have certain implications for the popular culture it inspires?
06 March 2023
Professor Tiffany Stern featured in the Guardian article
01 March 2023
The Birmingham Civic Society and ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project unveiled Blue Plaques commemorating the work of George Dawson and Samuel Timmins.
01 March 2023
Publishers announcing updates to the language used in Roald Dahl books made national headlines. Dr Amy Burge comments on how we edit books for modern society.
23 February 2023
Professor Adam Schembri discusses Global Language Advocates Day (GLAD) along with his projects working with deaf communities in the U.K and Australia.
21 February 2023
Our 2023 B-Film Annual Lecture welcomed UoB graduate Elizabeth Henstridge, actor-director and star of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
10 February 2023
Explore your passion for Shakespeare on our online Spring into Shakespeare short course starting in March.
23 January 2023
Our partnership with Waseda University in Tokyo continues with a day of discussion about 'Looking at Shakespeare from the non-Anglophone World'.
17 January 2023
The Dept of Film and Creative Writing is pleased to announce its One Minute Movie Competition, open to all University of Birmingham students, staff and alumni.
16 January 2023
Recipient Emily Vincent undertook an archival research visit to the Florence Marryat Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
16 January 2023
The wrapping paper has gone out for recycling; plans for the term are being made. Here we are at the hinge of the year, setting out again.
11 January 2023
MA in Film and Television graduate, Bhulla Beghal, won his second RTS Midlands Award, for a film that was made in collaboration with one of his MA peers.
15 December 2022
Literary scholars from the University are working with Oxford University Museum of Natural History to explore fantasy fiction and the science of the deep past.
14 December 2022
Experts from the School of English, Drama and Creative Studies share their Christmas reading recommendations.
13 December 2022
Visitors to Alderley Edge are in for a magical treat this Christmas, thanks to a new app developed with our experts
12 December 2022
Our world-renowned expert Professor Michael Dobson is recognised for his contribution to Shakespeare studies in Ukraine
09 December 2022
Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia) gives the Thursday Seminar at The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford upon Avon.
01 December 2022
Professor Douglas Kerr spoke at the Centre for Modernist Cultures in November on Orwell’s response to the life and politics of anti-colonial campaigner Gandhi.
30 November 2022
Exciting new degree programmes have launched in Law, English and History at the University’s campuses in Birmingham and Dubai.
30 November 2022
Alumna Shermara Fletcher (BA Drama and English Literature) was one of the faith leaders who spoke at HM The Queen’s funeral. She reflects on her recent visit.