Party party party

If you were anywhere near the science and engineering section of University Park yesterday lunchtime/afternoon you might have heard the sounds of the School of Chemistry summer party. If you didn’t know it before, you know it now. Chemists do not party quietly. They like to throw down. I popped along for the tug of …

Ye olde football league….

We did a story a couple of issues ago on the Key to English Place Names (KEPN) — a resource developed by the University’s Institute for Name Studies. It’s a web resource and smartphone app which which gives the history of the place-names of more than 16,000 cities, towns and villages across England. It’s great. Arranged by county, …