Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) has been named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC. Defined as an academic who ‘brings the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement’, New Generation […]

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Dr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers’ published by Yale University Press, 28 April 2020

Dr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Flowers and People’ is published by Yale University Press on 28 April 2020. https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300243338 “Blooming Flowers is a gorgeously lush evocation of twelve different flowers, each one steeped in its own stories, cultural associations and botanical wonder. It is not just a sunny celebration of […]

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‘Of Mud & Flame’: a new book on the film ‘Penda’s Fen’, featuring an essay by Yvonne Salmon (The Alchemical Landscape)

Strange Attractor Press have recently published Of Mud & Flame a sourcebook of material relating to David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s legendary television film Penda’s Fen (1974). The volume is edited by Matthew Harle and James Machin and features an essay by Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge), director of The Alchemical Landscape project on ‘Penda’s Fen and […]

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Dr Mina Gorji on Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’

On Friday 28 February, Dr Mina Gorji joined host Ian McMillan, fellow poets John McAuliffe, Igor Klikovac, André Naffis-Sahely, and songwriter Ana Silvera to explore the language of leaving, resettling and exile.  The programme is available to listen to again here.

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