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The rising prominence of the clerical sector was one of the most important changes in the twentieth-century workplace. Clerical workers became a key component of cityscapes and urban communities.

Harriet Tarlo worked with colleagues at the University of Leeds to create place-based practice research projects in Northeast Lincolnshire to benefit local people, community groups and creative practitioner

Jane Rogers' novel was long-listed for the 2011 Man Booker and 2012 Portico Prize, and awarded the 2012 Arthur C Clarke Science Fiction Prize

Professor Clare Midgley draws on her expertise in the history of British women's public activism to bring women's historic achievements into the public eye

Mike Harris's commissioned play From One Extreme to Another is about far-right and so-called 'Islamic' extremism and aims to open up for discussion by young people and teachers a sensitive topic

Matthew Stibbe's research on different aspects of World War I captivity and post-war reintegration of POWs into society offers new ways of looking at the legacy of the First World War in the 1920s and early 1930s

Ï㽶ÊÓƵer Dani Abulhawa has helped build skateparks in the West Bank of Palestine to give young people with restricted travel a sense of freedom

Our research into Bess of Hardwick’s Derbyshire residence sheds new light on the Elizabethan era.

Today, nearly a million Black people live in Germany. But the longer history of a Black community stretches back to the 1880s – and, until now, this story has remained largely untold.

The Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900–1950 Special Collection is a collection of 1,000 early editions of popular novels, with research into popular fiction, readerships and hierarchies of literary taste