Arts

An Oxford University historian has been announced as the new President of the British Academy.

Professor Sir David Cannadine will be its thirtieth President. He will take up office in July 2017 for a four year term, succeeding Lord Nicholas Stern.

A new research network about comics and graphic novels has been set up by The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities (TORCH).

In a year when all eyes are on Shakespeare, a new exhibition at the Bodleian Library will explore the life of his friend and rival, Benjamin Jonson.

Hundreds of Tolkien fans, scholars and members of the public flocked to the Weston Library today (23 June) to see a recently-discovered map of Middle-earth.

The exhibition was supposed to be for one day only - but due to popular demand it has now been extended for another day, from 9am-5pm tomorrow (24 June).

A ten-part BBC drama focusing on the court of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles is underway.

The Daily Telegraph calls it "the BBC's new steamy period drama", though its co-creator David Wolstencroft has higher ambitions for the programme.

'Sometimes it takes a different context to shine a light on history,' he says.

These striking works of art have been created by Oxford students and will be on display in the city when the annual Ruskin Degree Show opens tomorrow.

RUSKIN.SHOW will be the first degree show held in the new studios on Bullingdon Road.

With Johnny Depp’s ‘Mad Hatter’ returning to cinemas in Disney's ‘Through the Looking Glass’, an Oxford academic reveals the real-life influences on Lewis Carroll’s portrayal of insanity and the insane in his Alice books.

Oxford academics are teaming up with Google DeepMind to make artificial intelligence safer.

These spectacular images show divers recovering treasures from two ancient Egyptian cities.

The artefacts from Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus had been submerged at the mouth of the River Nile for over a thousand years.

The opening dramatic performance of a festival to celebrate Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was met with a standing ovation last weekend.