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Sam Selvon and The Lonely Londoners
Caribbean migrants striving to make their lives in London are the focus of this 1956 novel by Samuel Selvon. Written in creolized English, it establi…
2 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture
Over 200 women sculptors have been uncovered in the research of Sophie Johnson from Bristol University. She describes some of their creations and dis…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
A miserable child and a summer festival are at the heart of the short work of philosophical fiction first published by Ursula Le Guin in 1973. The On…
2 years, 1 month ago
Women, art and activism
The first women’s liberation conference in the UK, Miss World protests, the formation of the Brixton Black Women’s Group and the politics of who clea…
2 years, 1 month ago
Shakespeare as inspiration
Matthew Sweet is joined by Professor Preti Taneja – author of a novel We That Are Young which sets the King Lear in Delhi, by Dr Iain Robert Smith wh…
2 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project
Goldilocks, Robin Hood, Little Bess of Bromley, Moll Frith were star performers on the bear baiting circuit in Elizabethan England. New evidence of …
2 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: How and why we talk
Ultrasound tests in Burnley market hall will help the phonetics lab at Lancaster University explore tongue positions and accents as part of this year…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance discussion 2023
From Iraq and Afghanistan and news headlines today back to earlier battles in the Spanish Civil War and World War Two, the relationship between war, …
2 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: Playhouses and opera-going
From Lyons’ Corner House opera performances in the 1920s to 1980s productions staged in fish and chip shops in Scotland – Alexandra Wilson has been s…
2 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: Food
Lady Fanshawe’s ‘Receipt Book’ (c.1651-1707) provides the inspiration for a public cooking event at Tamworth castle hosted by the academic Sara Read …
2 years, 2 months ago