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Why learn a language?

With English emerging as the main world language, studying foreign...

Have all the libraries of Timbuktu been lost?

An excerpt taken from a lecture by Robin Walker called...

An Introduction to Rare and Endangered Languages

Professor Tim Connell provides an introduction to the field, with...

Rare and Endangered Languages - 'Why should we protect endangered languages?'

Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's...

'The Mountain has Many Paths'

Hawaiian religion has a saying: 'The mountain has many paths'...

Early Mathematics Day: The MacPlatonic Solids: Mathematics in Neolithic Scotland

What is the mathematical significance of certain prehistoric objects that...

Modern Druids

The ancient Druids have long represented some of the most...

Gods of Prehistoric Britain

Britain has one of the richest of all pagan heritages...

Talking with Beasts: Human and animal languages

Stonehenge: A History

Our contemporary ideas about Stonehenge and British antiquity were shaped...