Monthly Archives: July 2015

Re-shaping universities

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein writes: Universities at the moment are subject to a constant stream of changes in policy, strategy, management and organisation, as anyone who has been hearing about the recent government budget in relation to Higher Education knows. There … Continue reading

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Peter Robinson’s latest publication: The Draft Will

Much of it composed during Peter’s eighteen years living in Japan, The Draft Will brings together a selection of his experiments with the prose poem and an extended sequence exploring a mystery in the poet’s family background. To these has been added a … Continue reading

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Cole Library article

Verity Burke writes: I recently wrote a post for the History Vault on Professor Francis J. Cole’s collections (the Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology, and the Cole Museum of Zoology) on anatomy and reading and thought it might … Continue reading

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Department of English Literature Undergraduate Award Ceremony

 Professor Peter Robinson writes: It was a great pleasure, one of my final duties as outgoing Head of Department for English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages, to present The Margaret Seymour and Percy Sharman Prize for Literature, … Continue reading

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Well done Claire!

Congratulations to Claire Battershill, whose book of short stories, Circus, published last year, was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award for best first Canadian short story collection. It has also won an award for best literary fiction by a new writer … Continue reading

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Letter from America

Nicola Wilson writes: I was very fortunate to spend some time earlier this month doing research at the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) in Austin, Texas. “Do you still need to travel to see particular items?” friends have asked. Well yes, … Continue reading

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