Durham. Michaelmas term soon over, and scholars sit in Dunelm House. November weather, implacable still? A shiver breaks all doubts. Creeping frost on pavement stones – chilly challenge for a mouse.

Durham University has once again been recognised as one of the world’s leading higher education institutions for environmental and social sustainability, placing 24th globally in the 2026 QS World ...

"Yuletide in the medieval period is full of monstrous attacks" - Amelia White breaks down the associations between the monstrous and Christmas in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Rating: 5 out of 5. This week, I returned to the Assembly Rooms for DUMT’s cabaret performance REWIND; it proved to be one of the most delightful surprises of the term, and dare I say one of my ...

Claire Keegan’s masterpiece, Small Things Like These, presents a Christmas setting that forces us to grapple with our own sense of community, compassion and even complicity. When you first hold Keegan ...

You drag yourself out of bed and blink sleep from your eyes. It’s 11:47am and it’s Sunday and it’s time to get cracking, to get slicing and searing and simmering. You march through the living room ...

"the much lesser known, but equally exciting and chaotic festival of Saturnalia" - Emily Hall offers a fascinating historical comparison between contemporary Christmas traditions and the Roman festiva ...

Lucy Atkinson explores 'the unspoken love that runs through a household like the Royles — messy, sarcastic, loyal and deeply familiar' in the BBC's 1999 Christmas special of The Royle Family ...