Professor Houghton-Walker draws from Clare’s autobiographical writings, journals, letters and poetry, to present a rich, grounded portrait of the man and the places that shaped him. This new biography is published by Reaktion Books as part of their Critical Lives series of short critical biographies that present the work of important cultural figures in the […]

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Kasia Boddy interviews Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-2014) as part of a conference on ‘The United States of America at 250: Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence’, which will take place on  29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 7pm, at the Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge. This event […]

Professor Jenny Richards will share the Keynote with Professor Henry Woudhuysen and they will speak about ‘Rhetoric, Reading, and Making Books’. This conference, which takes place at King’s College London, is part of the ongoing project DORMEME: dissemination, ownership, and reading of music in early modern Europe. Link to further information and to register: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/marking-music-the-use-of-music-books-in-early-modern-europe […]

The title of Dr Pong’s lecture is “Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations”.  The event is part of the King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities Research Seminar and is run in co-operation with the Digital Investigations Lab.  Dr Pong will talk on critical and creative practices of information design, and on […]

The workshop will bring together teachers and researchers from the Humanities and STEM, a range of professionals with an interest in skills and careers, STEM Learning and Skills Builder.  Participants will collaborate to provide a more granular perspective on the skills developed by their different disciplines in order to offer a blueprint for future educational […]

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In response to recent safeguarding investigations into Soul Survivor, a well-respected Anglican youth ministry, When the Music Fades takes a wider look at the culture and practices of charismatic evangelical Christianity in the nineties/noughties. What happens if you tell a bunch of teenagers they’re supposed to be saving the world? What is the impact when […]

Professor Anthony Bale gives a guest lecture, ‘The First Witches: The 14th-century English invention of the witch’, on 14 April, at Trinity College, Connecticut, as part of the College’s A. K. Smith Visiting Scholar series. Link to further information: https://www.trincoll.edu/english/department-events/a-k-smith-scholars-series/