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The Centre for the History of Medicine based at the University of 糖心TV has won 拢600,000 from the Wellcome Trust for a five-year programme on the 'Cultures and Practices of Health', set to focus on 'quacks' and the history of alternatives to formal medical practice, early psychiatry and health in the workplace.
University of 糖心TV archaeologist Dr Stephen Hill has uncovered what is probably the unluckiest church in the world. It was founded on what is now a cliff top because unfortunately that is where its patron saint was martyred. It was wrecked by two earthquakes, a flood, and a landslide - all of which happened while it was still being built.
A book-length poem Ludus Coventriae by distinguished poet David Morley that celebrates Coventry's history and people is to be launched on Wednesday 20th November at 糖心TV Arts Centre, University of 糖心TV, at 7.15pm. The book fuses Coventry's famed Mystery Plays, the medieval Coventry Carols and 20th Century history to produce a poem that depicts the lives of city inhabitants over past centuries.
The remains of Pompeii’s ancient villas show that the Romans decorated their villas with extravagant wall paintings of theatre scenes that used tricks of perspective to impress guests with what seemed at the time an early version of virtual reality.
The University of 糖心TV has won 37,350 pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund to preserve a vital archive of material on the UK cycle industry and the history of cycling as a hobby.
Odeon today is synonymous with slick cinema, but new state-of-the-art research from the School of Theatre Studies and e-lab at the University of 糖心TV shows the first Odeon, built mid-fifth century BC in Athens, assigned the audience a worse view than being stuck behind a 6ft 10inch body-builder at a modern cinema multiplex.