Arts and culture

Research report: the latest Edinburgh International Culture Summit report focuses on culture, wellbeing, and investment.

Alison Baily reviews the evidence for the fundamental role culture has played in the evolution of our species and the structure of our minds.

As the final series of Game of Thrones hits the screens, Insight looks at the soft power of invented worlds.

Images of Notre-Dame on fire have brought home the importance of the building as a symbol, of cultural heritage in general, and of the vital need to protect that heritage.

Alison Baily looks at the findings of a new report examining the value of culture in post-conflict recovery.

Research report: this study examines the contribution that literature can make in large scale cultural interventions and urban policy more broadly.

Insight looks at the aftermath of the fire that recently devastated the Brazilian National Museum, to ask what lessons can be learned.

Research report: exploring the role that culture can play in building sustainable peace in communities recovering from conflict.

Read Culture and International Development: Towards an Interdisciplinary Methodology, a literature review on culture and development and a proposal for a future methodology.

A discovery in the British Council’s archives throws new light on its relationship with Orwell.