Well Beings is a cultural history of the 1970s with an emphasis on alternative health, experimental well-being and inner space exploration.  In essence, Well Beings is a secret history of modern wellness that takes the reader on a strange trip from the panoramic vistas of the Esalen Institute to the vast darkness of the flotation tank by way […]

James Raven’s new edited book Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century: Ideas and Materialities c 1650-1850 was published by Boydell this week. Link to further information: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650163/global-exchanges-of-knowledge-in-the-long-eighteenth-century/.

On 26 February 2024 Clare Pettitt spoke at the launch of The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form eds. Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (London: Routledge, 2024).  The book includes a chapter that Pettitt has joint written with Art Historian, Professor Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art) entitled, ‘Multicolour as Disavowal: […]

Third year PhD student Lauryn Anderson has been awarded a prestigious Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship to attend Princeton University for the academic year 2024-25. Procter fellowships, nominated by the trustees of Oxford and Cambridge, are awarded on both the basis of a very high standard of academic achievement, as well as in recognition of fellows’ […]

Look out for Faculty of English events at the Cambridge Festival:

From 2pm Friday 23 February to 2pm Saturday 24 February 2024 The Antechapel, Trinity College This is a non-stop, 24-hour, livestreamed event open to the public. Trinity alumnus Pip Torrens – known for his roles in The Crown, Succession and most recently Mr Bates vs the Post Office – will open the Byrothon, the inaugural […]

Thank you for your interest in our A Level Coursework Days, unfortunately they are now all fully booked. If you are interested in bringing your English class to visit the Faculty please get in touch via outreach@english.cam.ac.uk and our Outreach Co-ordinator will be in touch.

Byron Now Trinity College Cambridge will host a two-day event to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death on 19 April 1824, in Missolonghi, Greece. Byron was a student at Trinity College and is one of its most celebrated alumni. While enrolled as an undergraduate, Byron published his collection of poetry, Hours of […]

After running a couple of pilot days last year, we have decided that the Faculty will run A Level coursework days as our standard offer to schools requesting a visit. These will take place during the weeks that Cambridge terms have finished but schools are still in, and priority will be given to schools that […]

Sarah Dillon joins presenter Matthew Sweet, fellow academic David Hering, and filmmaker Daniel Bird on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking (1st February 2024) to discuss the film that some have called the best science fiction film ever made: Andrej Zulawski’s epic On the Silver Globe. Zulawski (1940-2016) studied cinema in France and became known for […]