Original Online

Welcome to Original, the online version of the University of Birmingham’s flagship research magazine. Read the features from 'The Culture Edition'.

The Culture Edition - Summer 2015

• Foreword
• Birmingham Qur’an manuscript dated among oldest in the world
• Raising the profile of a cultural treasure
• Research Hub brings precious heritage to life
• Digital database for manuscripts
• Botanical archive charts significance of plants
• Making History, at Birmingham
• X-rays shed fresh light on historic coin collection
• New masterpieces are firsts for gallery
• Hi-tech approach to preserving ancient scripts
• Another time an Other Place
• Bridging the Atlantic
• Four billion years in the making
• The healing power of creativity