Press releases

The highly acclaimed BBC Concert Orchestra is bringing some of television’s best-loved soundtracks and tunes to Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall for a very special performance of BBC Radio 3’s Friday Night Is Music Night, on Friday 28 March.

The world-famous BBC Concert Orchestra will be returning to Nottingham as part of its collaboration with the Universities for Nottingham initiative – taking part in a week-long series of events coinciding with Nottingham Royal Concert Hall’s Soundstage Festival.

A temporary exhibition in the form of an extraordinary concert performed at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, will bring to life rarely heard historical musical instruments and their ‘lost’ sounds, on 15 March 2025.

A ground-breaking project at the University of Nottingham, to create immersive art experiences through artificial intelligence (AI), is to receive £1.1m funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Bridging Responsible Artificial Intelligence Divides (BRAID) programme.

Archaeologists from the University of Nottingham have played an integral part in a collaborative study that provides a model for identifying archaeological bear baiting assemblages in England and beyond.

A brand-new book, which sheds light on the history of Nottinghamshire and reveals some of the seventeenth-century’s most explosive events, will launch on Tuesday 11 February at the University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts and Special Collections.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced that the University of Nottingham, along with six other higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Midlands, will receive Doctoral Landscape Awards.

An ambitious and brand-new co-created exhibition between the University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Science and Lakeside Arts, exploring the mind-blowing world of quantum science, will open at Lakeside’s Djanogly Gallery on 25 January 2025.

Visitors are invited to travel back in time to the Iron Age, when rarely seen finds from two East Midlands hillforts will be on display in a brand-new free exhibition at the University of Nottingham Museum at Lakeside Arts.

A brand new powerful international touring exhibition, marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 – co-created between University of Nottingham historians and the UK’s National Holocaust Museum – will open in Soho, London later this month.