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    New Thinking: Rubble Culture to Techno in Post-war Germany

    Forgotten stories from cultural diplomats, British army bases and Berlin dance floors.

  2. New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time

    Producer Kat Feavers & house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen on preparing the TV show

  3. New Thinking: Research in Film Award Winners 2021

    Prize winning films about migration, autism, Colombians, farming and children born of war

  4. New Thinking: Rediscovering Women Making Film and Sculpture

    Kathleen Collins鈥� film scripts and women sculptors working in wax.

  5. New Thinking: Raiding Gay鈥檚 the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld

    Diarmuid Hester hears about Operation Tiger and early 1900s queer life writing.

  6. New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles

    What happens when one becomes two?

  7. New Thinking: Playhouses and Opera-going

    What spectacles did Elizabethan playhouses stage other than plays? Is opera really posh?

  8. New Thinking: Places of Poetry and The Colonial Countryside Project

    National Trust history is revamped in a writing project with children.

  9. New Thinking: Oral Histories and the NHS

    New research on the stories held in the NHS archives and the voices that are missing.

  10. New Thinking: Modernism, Exile and 蘑菇短视频lessness

    Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity.

  11. New Thinking: Mental Health Research

    How can young people regulate their emotions and can gaming help adolescent mental health

  12. New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration

    From World War One soldiers in Belfast to the LGBTQ+ monument in Amsterdam.

  13. New Thinking: Light and Darkness

    Darkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature

  14. New Thinking: Language Loss and Revival

    What do we lose when a language stops being spoken?

  15. New Thinking: India in the Archives

    Dr Naomi Paxton explores archives for stories of Indian culture and history.

  16. New Thinking: How Water Shapes Our History and Environment

    From the aqueducts of ancient Rome to 19th century river Nile and today's running water.

  17. New Thinking: How and Why We Talk

    John Gallagher hears about tongue shapes, accent prejudice and the importance of gossip.

  18. New Thinking: Health Inequalities

    Health projects using Caribbean folk traditions, wild swimming, museums and the blues.

  19. New Thinking: George Eliot

    Writer of the English provinces?

  20. New Thinking: Game of Thrones and History

    Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about TV and history.

  21. New Thinking: Game of Thrones and History

    Sarah Peverley talks to Carolyne Larrington and Danielle Park about TV depicting history.

  22. New Thinking: From Pong to VR for Vets

    A computer game for cystic fibrosis patients to improve breathing

  23. New Thinking: Food

    Lisa Mullen hears about new research into eating habits and ideas about hospitality

  24. New Thinking: Flooding and Energy

    Can old field names and labelling energy sources help us cope better with climate change?

  25. New Thinking: Films and Research

    Films investigating melting glaciers, to refugee camps, public bathrooms, & more.

  26. New Thinking: Fashion, Sustainability and Earth Day

    From outfits which double as tents to material and algae: Lucy Orta and Monica Buchan-Ng.

  27. New Thinking: Fashion, AI and Sustainability

    The Future Fashion Factory and changing our attitude to fast fashion.

  28. New Thinking: Exploring the Local

    New research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office.

  29. New Thinking: East West Artistic Connections

    A war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art.

  30. New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music

    Digging into the music of composers Joseph Boulogne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry

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