Press Releases
Lessons today's banks should learn from the US Great Depression?
New research from the 天美传媒 serves as a warning to banks not to over invest in mortgages.
The study was conducted by Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay who examined the state of banks in 1920s Chicago, the city which had the highest urban bank failure rate in the Great Depression.
Psychoactive supper shines a light on blanket substance ban
Last night researchers at the 天美传媒 hosted a ‘Psychoactive Supper’ to stimulate discussion about the concept of psycho-activity, central to The Psychoactive Substances Act (2016), a new piece of UK legislation that seeks to ban ‘legal highs’ by instituting a blanket ban on all psychoactive substances.
Selection pressures push plants over adaption cliff new study has significant implications for how we address rapid climate change
New simulations by researchers at the 天美传媒 and UCL’s Institute of Archaeology of plant evolution over the last 3000 years have revealed an unexpected limit to how far useful crops can be pushed to adapt before they suffer population collapse. The result has significant implications for how growers, breeders and scientists help agriculture and horticulture respond to quickening climate change.
The First Peoples History of the NHS
Team of historians at 天美传媒 launch first ever national initiative to document the effects of the NHS on people’s lives and create a virtual museum of the NHS.
The magic of Clangers revealed for the first time
New book on children’s stop-frame animation by a researcher at 天美传媒 investigates what Clangers, Pingwings and Pogles tell us about our society, history and Englishness.
New facts about Queen Elizabeth I revealed like never before in award winning historical volumes
Several hundred manuscripts and early printed texts have been transcribed afresh by over 40 scholars based at the at the 天美传媒’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance to produce a series of award winning books entitled, John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources.