Rosen, James and Google
Who doesn’t love Michael Rosen? For most people, it’s chocolate cake: But Michael Rosen also has a long history of […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Black History Month
Today’s post marks Black History Month. First, a short lecture introducing the first post-colonial novel, by Chinua Achebe, which opened […]
Read more →Romantics and Diversity in the Booker
I don’t know if any of you have seen Simon Schama’s series on the Romantics, but if you haven’t, you […]
Read more →The Past and Future of Writing
Welcome to the new academic year, alive, kicking and reading. As you will so often be told, it’s really important […]
Read more →Summer Suggestions
We have come to the end of the strangest ever term, and the last post for this academic year. It’s […]
Read more →Black Lives Matter
Nobody can be unaware of the events which have unfurled across the world after the killing of George Floyd in […]
Read more →A Range of Recommendations
It’s time for some more reading suggestions and in this post I’m going to cheat by borrowing a whole set […]
Read more →Lord of the Flies For Real
Another locked down break is nearly upon us and it’s time for some reading and watching advice from things which […]
Read more →Plague Years
As we move into a bank holiday weekend, when the government has announced that there will be some review of […]
Read more →Happy Birthday, Shakespeare
The last post featured some light-hearted humour; this one is more traditional, though there is still plenty of humour. Yesterday […]
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