Monthly Archives: March 2016

By katherinecal As a follow-up to my earlier post, I will continue to explore the potential functions of the textual tag system in the William Blake Archive. In my previous… Read more »

By Catherine Redford Happy Mary Shelley Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Mary Shelley was a pioneer of science fiction, writing Frankenstein (1818) while she was still a teenager. Shelley went on to… Read more »

By ladys-magazine Today, 8 March 2016, is International Women’s Day. It is a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women all over the world. It… Read more »

By Matthew Sangster Meiko O’Halloran is a Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Newcastle University. She has published articles and book chapters on writers including Robert Burns, Walter Scott and Joanna… Read more »

By Anna Mercer The ‘On This Day’ series continues with the second part of a post on Italian Romanticism from Fabio Camilletti, who is Associate Professor at the School of… Read more »

By Matthew Sangster After a period of relative quiet, I should be able to make a number of updates to the site over the next few months. The British Library… Read more »

By marylshannon The first in a new season of Open University Book History Research Group seminars, “Travelling Books and Readers in the Long Eighteenth Century,” will be held at Senate… Read more »

By Sarah Jones William Pressly’s James Barry’s Murals at the Royal Society of Arts won the prestigious Berger Prize for British Art History in December 2015. The review below, by… Read more »

By Matthew Sangster The post below, originally published on the Wordsworth Trust Blog, is by Anna Fleming and details the time she spent in Grasmere as part of her doctoral… Read more »

By Michael R. Fox Alan Liu recently gave a talk at UNC-Chapel Hill entitled “Key Trends in Digital Humanities: How the Digital Humanities Challenge the Idea of the Humanities.” It… Read more »