With the help of the Stephen Copley Award, I was able to spend several days in London, at the National Archives in Kew. This had a positive impact on my… Read more »
On February 23, Tom Anderson is releasing his album “Keats Euphoria” with eleven punk-folk songs inspired by Keats life and poems. It’s a homage to Keats, with some direct lifts… Read more »
An ONLINE conference on 24th and 25th August 2024 marking the 200th anniversary of James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The conference is entirely online and… Read more »
Thursday, April 11 · 5 – 6:30pm GMT+1 Get your tickets at the link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bars-digital-event-gothic-monstrosity-and-romanticism-tickets-847327498357 To what extent are Romanticism and monstrosity intertwined? In Romanticism and the Gothic, Michael Gamer points out… Read more »
One of the first decisions made by the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade when it was established in 1787 was to commission new works of poetry… Read more »
From BBC dramas and Netflix series to luxurious cinematic blockbusters and Bollywood period films, public audiences continue to engage with fascinating eighteenth-century figures, both real and fictional. Such depictions are… Read more »
James Armstrong is an adjunct assistant professor at City College of the City University of New York. He has published extensively on drama in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries,… Read more »
By Chris Bundock In October 2024, I’m planning to host a rehearsed reading of Joanna Baillie’s The Tryal at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds. At this time, I am inviting anyone interested… Read more »
In Greek tragedy, ‘hubris’ is defined as “excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis” (Oxford Languages). I have had much the same sort of feeling since… Read more »
As I write this, the smoothly carved Oxfordshire countryside ripples by, the deep green grass ablaze under the gleaming sun after what has been a rather moody winter in Oxford…. Read more »