Essayisms Reading Group: Ists and Isms

Please join us for the first Spring term meeting of the Essaysisms reading group where we will be discussing the group's unwitting namesake, Brian Dillon's Essayism (2017).

Quoting Dickens

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor John Bowen (University of York).

Book Launch: George Orwell joins the Oxford World’s Classics Series

A celebration of George Orwell joining Oxford World's Classics. Join David Dwan in conversation with John Bowen, Rosinka Chadhuri, and Lisa Mullen.

The Quiet Place Book Club: A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson

Join us for the January meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we’ll be discussing A Portable Paradise (2019) by Roger Robinson, a graceful collection of poetry that spans quotidian encounters, familial joys and pains, and the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

CECS Research Seminar with Chloe Wigston Smith (University of York) and Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, Leicester)