Wordsworth in Leeds by Anna Fleming

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The post below, originally published on the Wordsworth Trust Blog, describes Anna Fleming’s experiences as a doctoral student at the University of Leeds and the Wordsworth Trust. It follows on from a previous post about her year in Grasmere. Here she discusses her public engagement work in Leeds.
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After my blog post reporting my year in Grasmere I return to share my year in Leeds. I am a collaborative doctoral award student which means I am partnered with two institutions: the University of Leeds and the Wordsworth Trust. Unlike 2015, when I was based in Grasmere and I used the archive, did community outreach and museum visitor services, my time in Leeds has been much more oriented towards finishing my thesis. Yet following on from the success of the public engagement project I delivered in Grasmere – where I read Wordsworth’s poetry with a number of different people to assess local attitudes and responses to the poet and his poetry – I decided to set up a similar project in Leeds.

From September to December I worked with two groups: primary school children from Shire Oak School in Headingley and older people from Caring Together in Woodhouse. Despite …read more

Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=1554