3+ hour, 38+ min ago  (886+ words) Open Access Government Marcher books from abroad Dr Matt Lampitt from the University of Bristol explores the books that travelled to the medieval Marches of Wales from Oxford, France, and beyond One of the aims of the Mapping the March…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (170+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric copper-smelting camp tucked inside a cave more than 2, 200 meters above sea level in the eastern Pyrenees. The study, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, challenges the long-held belief that high-altitude mountains were merely…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (558+ words) Open Access Government Dr. Arifusalam Shaikh, Associate Professor, and Cheryl Thomas, Associate Professor, University Canada West, examine culture as systemic stewardship by means of Indigenous leadership and biodiversity As Canada rethinks its cultural and environmental policies in a time of…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (151+ words) Building on the foundational work of the former Institute of Prairie Archaeology, IPIA expands the Institute's mandate to respond directly to contemporary calls for reconciliation, Indigenous sovereignty, and responsible heritage governance. Under the leadership of Dr Kisha Supernant (M'tis/British),…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (710+ words) Social histories are traditionally nationalist, focusing on the cultural production of modern nation-states and typically showcasing the outputs of a single dominant language. This nationalist approach to social history means that very often the experiences of multilingualism, border cultures, and…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (394+ words) In the October 2025 edition of Open Access Government, we explored the activities of America's leading public funder of the humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). We addressed concerns regarding potential staff reductions, significant cuts to grant programs, and…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1189+ words) Germaine A. Hoston demonstrates the influence of Neo-Confucianism on European idealism and Marxist revolutionary thought. .. Harmony among civilizations: The influence of Chinese philosophy on Western idealism and contemporary revolutionary thought Germaine A. Hoston of the University of California, San Diego, demonstrates the…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (308+ words) Where is the March of Wales? The term refers to the borderlands between Wales and England, but the area of the March is not officially defined or recognised as a region of Britain. Our project aims to retrieve the Welsh…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (232+ words) From 1066, following the Norman conquest of England, the Welsh borders and southern coastline were continuously occupied by Norman and then English barons, forming "Marcher lordships" which were multicultural and multilingual. The ebb and flow of the Marcher lordships, which changed…...