Image by Colin McDowall, courtesy of Towards a National Collection   Researchers at the University of London's School of Advanced Study (SAS) are part of a pioneering new project – Congruence Engine – that will explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make historical and museum collections more accessible to researchers and the public.

To commemorate its 100th birthday, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, will bring together researchers, artists and scholars for a year of #OurCentury events to explore, celebrate and reappraise history – our past, present and future.

Hermann-Hinrich Reemtsma (centre) with Reemtsma family members and representatives from the foundation on a visit to the Warburg Institute in summer 2019 .    A world-class institute for the study of art and culture, that tracks themes and symbols across time and space, is set to benefit from a £3m investment by a German foundation. This gift, the largest ever donation to the University of London, will secure the future of the Warburg Institute and help it to reach new people.

Professor Katherine Harloe has been appointed director of the University of London’s Institute of Classical Studies ( ICS ), the national centre for research in the Classics at the School of Advanced Study, succeeding Professor Greg Woolf. She is currently professor of Classics and intellectual history at the University of Reading, and will take up the role in October 2021.