Poetry: Who Cares?
You might think that poetry is for schools and universities, for students and teachers, not for you and your busy job. But what if you...
Revisiting the ‘Angel of Assassination’
Charlotte Corday I can see you now. Pale, with hair like a breathing cloud, accumulating beneath the cumulus of your cap. Swaddled, like...
Who Goes There? Authorial Personae and the Relationships between Authors and Readers
Is there such a thing as a relationship between a reader and an author? Authors often structure their relationships with readers in...
Refuge and Asylum: A Gardener's Guide
Gardens are a cultural staple the world over. You would be hard put to find a major world religion in which gardens do not feature; the...
Charles Bukowski: More than misogyny?
“The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and...
Where You Read: What Does It Say About You?
Reading spaces have been important in British culture since literacy itself took hold. Places such as libraries, bedrooms and railway...
Connecting History and the Public
Produced in collaboration with Doing History in Public. History means talking to each other. More now than ever before, members of the...
In Defence of the Dark Arts: Academic Resistance to the Fantastic
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” – Dr Seuss Read any review of the Western...
Reading Between the Panels: Comics and Critical Theory
How do we read comics? How are the ways in which we read comics changing? For most of their history, the ways in which we have read and...
Learning From Journals: What can we Learn From ‘The Landswoman’?
Produced in collaboration with History to the Public The Women’s Land Army was a civilian organisation set up during World War One and...
