News
Competition Finalist - Public Engagement Awards 2016
Georgina Binnie's Writing Back project has been shortlisted in the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement Awards. The winners will be announced on 29th November 2016.
Dr Matthew Whittle writes on the Suez crisis.
Suez crisis was when Britain gave in to US cultural dominance – here’s how (The Conversation, 28/10/16)
Is this the end of the Holocene period? (Independent, 15/09/16)
Dr David Higgins writes about the Holocene and Anthropocene periods and how the climate during the Romantic period affected literature, particularly during the ‘year without summer’ of 1816.
The Matter of the North (BBC Radio 4, 07/09/16)
Poet, playwright and PhD student Rommi Smith takes part in Melvyn Bragg’s latest series. This episode, The Radical North, examines the radical movements that sprang from the region.
Professor Clive Upton on BBC Radio
Professor Clive Upton (Emeritus Professor of Modern English Language) talks about accents and dialects as part of an identity.