by georgiareeves | Jun 9, 2020 | Summer Schools
Dr Carol Farr, Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies A super-star attraction of Trinity College Dublin, the Book of Kells is known to many people across the globe. Besides being a recognisable emblem of Irish culture, it is a complex object. Probably...
by georgiareeves | Jun 8, 2020 | Summer Schools
Clare Lees, Director of the Institute of English Studies, Professor of Medieval Literature In 2013, I worked with a group of poets associated with the Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts, commissioned to respond to the ‘return’ of the great early medieval manuscript,...
by eleanorh | Jun 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
One morning in May, 1741, outside a small farmhouse in the village of Hayton in Kent, the 20 year-old Elizabeth Robinson (1720-1800) cried as her father, Matthew Robinson, refused to embrace her. He feared transferring the smallpox which had already infected...
by eleanorh | Jun 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
How prescient that Dr Shafquat Towheed and Dr Edmund King had chosen ‘Reading and Wellbeing’ as the subject of their HOBAR seminar series this season. Key workers have been performing duties which have rarely been as valued, placing themselves at risk by working in...
