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British Library - English and Drama blog
3d ago
by Gwen Morris, Digital Learning Administrator, the British Library Learning team. In this post, Gwen reflects on her role and her work on our digital campaigns for primary schools. These creative campaigns aim to spark love of reading, writing and drawing, in response to the treasures on our Discovering Children’s ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
1w ago
We are delighted to announce that the British Library will host a symposium on Ted Hughes and Expressionism in collaboration with Dr Steve Ely, Director of the Ted Hughes Network at the University of Huddersfield. Ted Hughes by Fay Godwin © British Library Board This symposium is designed to explore ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
1M ago
By Eva Isherwood-Wallace, PhD Placement Student with Contemporary British & Irish Published Collection. As part of the British Library PhD placement scheme, I spent three months investigating small publisher fairs across the UK and Ireland to support collection development for artists’ books and fine press. This placement was based in ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
5M ago
By Zoe Louca-Richards, Curator Modern Archives and Manuscripts, and Dr Christine Ferguson, Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling. In 2019, the British Library acquired a rather remarkable piece of Arthur Conan Doyle history – an unpublished chapter from his final Professor Challenger novel The Land of Mist ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
5M ago
Carmen Callil, publisher, author and founder of Virago Press died on Monday. Callil founded the publishing house Virago Press, in 1972, and was also Managing Director of Chatto and Windus and the Hogarth Press between 1982-1994. Callil remained Chairman of Virago Press until 1995 and was also a member of ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
6M ago
By Greg Buzwell, Curator, Contemporary Literary Archives. ‘Does anyone seriously believe that Beatles music will be an unthinkingly accepted part of daily life all over the world in the 2000s?’ wrote the philosopher and politician Bryan Magee in the February 1967 issue of The Listener. The passage of time has ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
6M ago
by Dominic Newman, Manuscripts Cataloguer. Donald Michael Thomas (b. 1935) made his name as a writer when, in the early 1980s, his novel ‘The White Hotel’ scored a sudden success in the United States. With its psychedelic expedition into the subconscious, Freud and the Holocaust, and the vertiginous buckling and ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
7M ago
The 14th annual Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets is open for entries for best pamphlet, publisher and illustrator. The Awards are often marked by innovation and this year is no different, introducing the Award’s first prize for Environmental Poet of the Year. The call for Environmental Poet of the ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
8M ago
By Amber Akaunu, filmmaker and artist, who was commissioned by the British Library to engage creatively with the Beryl Gilroy archive. Reflecting on past projects and experiences is something that I admittedly had never even considered doing before spending time with Dr Beryl Gilroy’s archive. I didn’t see it as ..read more
British Library - English and Drama blog
8M ago
by R.B. Russell, researcher, publisher and writer, who consulted the Robert Aickman Archive at the British Library and writes here of his experiences. BL Add. MS 89209/3/5. Robert Aickman at Gledhow Gardens, London. 1980 I first came across Robert Aickman (1914-1981) as the author of ‘strange stories’ (his own term ..read more