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A unique collection of previously unseen photographs that reveal what life was like for German soldiers in an East Midlands WW1 prisoner of war camp will be on show in a new exhibition opening this week.

New and easy to use immersive captioning technology is to be made freely available to UK theatre companies to boost their provision for deaf audiences. The package of training and software has been developed by experts in drama and performance at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with Red Earth Theatre, a pioneering company based in the East Midlands.

The award-winning novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle will be talking about his life and work at a ‘literary cabaret’ event to launch the latest edition of The Letters Page – an unusual journal of creative writing produced at the University of Nottingham.

Psychologists from the University of Nottingham are appealing for people to come forward who may have taken part in pioneering research into child development in Nottingham City from the 1950s to the 1970s.

On this day nearly 2,000 years ago a birthday party was held for Claudia Severa, the wife of a Roman officer. How do we know this? Because the party invitation sent to the wife of the camp commander at Vindolanda, a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall, survives to this day.

A University of Nottingham professor who pioneers the teaching of philosophy from the primary school classroom right up to post-doctoral level, has won a prestigious national teaching award. Professor Andrew Fisher from the University’s Department of Philosophy has been given a National Teaching Fellowship – the most coveted accolade for university teachers in the UK.

There is still chance to see Homage to the Bauhaus, a major Nottingham Lakeside Arts public exhibition, which runs until Sunday 2 June in the Djanogly Gallery.

Are increasing cinema ticket prices shutting many people out of the cinema? Gianluca Sergi, Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Faculty of Arts, writes for the Conversation