Press releases

Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered that pregnant women were depicted in art and literature with martial gear, and newborns were born into a harsh world where they were not all given burial or were born free.

15 years of collaborative work between a University of Nottingham archaeologist and a local community in Greece, has resulted in policy reform in the European country, by recognising the Malea Peninsula as a place of outstanding natural and cultural value.

A full-size replica chariot from the Iron Age has gone on display at the University of Nottingham Museum at Lakeside Arts, as part of the Life at an 'Iron Age Hillfort: Investigating Breedon Hill & Burrough Hill' exhibition.

From idyllic and picturesque scenes to the realities of rural life, a brand-new free exhibition at Lakeside Arts explores how the English countryside has been used and depicted over the last 200 years, and the powerful and enduring impact it has had on people.

The highly acclaimed BBC Concert Orchestra is bringing some of television’s best-loved soundtracks and tunes to Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall for a very special performance of BBC Radio 3’s Friday Night Is Music Night, on Friday 28 March.

The world-famous BBC Concert Orchestra will be returning to Nottingham as part of its collaboration with the Universities for Nottingham initiative – taking part in a week-long series of events coinciding with Nottingham Royal Concert Hall’s Soundstage Festival.

A temporary exhibition in the form of an extraordinary concert performed at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, will bring to life rarely heard historical musical instruments and their ‘lost’ sounds, on 15 March 2025.

A ground-breaking project at the University of Nottingham, to create immersive art experiences through artificial intelligence (AI), is to receive £1.1m funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Bridging Responsible Artificial Intelligence Divides (BRAID) programme.

Archaeologists from the University of Nottingham have played an integral part in a collaborative study that provides a model for identifying archaeological bear baiting assemblages in England and beyond.

A brand-new book, which sheds light on the history of Nottinghamshire and reveals some of the seventeenth-century’s most explosive events, will launch on Tuesday 11 February at the University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts and Special Collections.