Arts

Oxford University's Museum of Natural History has been named 'best of the best' of all UK museums at the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence 2016.

This was the top category in the awards which are likened to the 'Oscars of the heritage sector'.

How is social media affecting our behaviour?

Has the gender of an author influenced whether their work is accepted into the literary ‘canon’?

These are among the questions being explored by four new research networks at Oxford University.

In a guest post, Martin Conway, professor of Contemporary European History at University of Oxford, explains the underlying issues behind this week's attacks in Brussels.

Today poetry fans around the world are celebrating World Poetry Day.

To mark the day, we asked poetry experts from our English Faculty and Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages about their own research into poetry, and what poems they recommend we should read today.

Death is not a laughing matter. But an ongoing study into coroners’ reports into accidental deaths in Tudor England has turned up some deaths which do sound like something out of a slapstick comedy routine.

Dr Philip Carter is an Oxford historian and Senior Research and Publication Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). In a guest post for Arts Blog, he explains a new development in the Oxford DNB: the addition of voice recordings of historical individuals to their biographies.

Two poems by author JRR Tolkien have been discovered in a 1936 copy of an Oxfordshire school's annual.

It is believed that Tolkien came to know Our Lady’s School in Abingdon while he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University.

'Valentine's Day' has not always had the same romantic connotations that it has today.

In a guest post, Dr Huw Grange, Junior Research Fellow in French and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, explains its origins:

The Ruskin School of Art is holding a sale of student artwork this weekend.

The Ruskin Art Sale will take place from 10am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday (13/14 February) at 74 High Street.

The walls will be full of artworks from undergraduate and Master’s students at the Ruskin School of Art.

An exhibition of works by Andy Warhol has opened at the Ashmolean Museum.

The Museum has teamed up with the Hall Art Foundation in the USA, which has lent over 100 paintings, sculptures, screen prints and drawings from its private collection.

The Museum has also been loaned some the artist's films from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.