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The role of rail transport in driving economic change is now widely recognised – but its role in enabling the spread of grass-roots social and political activism is equally significant, according to new research from University of ÌÇÐÄTV economics researcher Eric Melander which uses Sweden as a case study to investigate how technology influences the spread of political ideas.

As the post-war international order, rooted in multilateral co-operation and underpinned by US leadership, comes under threat from the rise of authoritarian powers and a retreat into nationalism, scholars and diplomats are being urged to pay closer attention to the experience of Latin American states as a way to better understand the way forward for international relations.

Donald Trump's 2016 campaign is said to have spent 44 million dollars on Facebook, running 175,000 variations of political adverts.  Was this money well-spent?

New research from the University of ÌÇÐÄTV, ETH Zurich and the University Carlos III in Madrid has demonstrated that the micro-targeted campaigns were highly effective both in persuading undecided voters to support Mr Trump, and in persuading Republican supporters to turn out on polling day.

The authentic voice of nineteenth-century England is captured in a new collection of poems and ballads written in response to the 1819 Peterloo Massacre and shared in defiance of Government censorship.  Dr Alison Morgan's new book highlights the outrage, grief, defiance and resolution felt by labouring-class people in the immediate aftermath of one of the defining events of English political history.

As a new art exhibition opens at Bletchley Park celebrating the James Bond series and exploring Bond creator Ian Fleming’s links to the secret world of intelligence and espionage, two University of ÌÇÐÄTV academics reveal what real spies think of Fleming’s famous creation.

A new exhibition, Hear the Ambassadors: The Performance of Diplomacy in the Age of Shakespeare, opened this week in Stratford. A collaboration between the University of ÌÇÐÄTV and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, it is based on the work of Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at ÌÇÐÄTV.