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Literary Allusion in Harry Potter |
J.K. Rowling’s imagination is fired by the past. How do historical objects illuminate the real-… |
Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness |
| 2 |
Shakespeare and the Victorians |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare… |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
| 3 |
Wartime Art and Grief |
German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War. |
Claudia Siebrecht |
| 4 |
The Better Part of Valour |
Combatant Courage on the Western Front. |
Edward Madigan |
| 5 |
Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours? |
The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914. |
Catriona Pennell |
| 6 |
The Life and Times of Wilfred Owen (lecture) |
Free public lecture at Gresham College. Available as video, audio and transcript
Overview:The… |
Peter Bunyan, Chris Cuff |
| 7 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses II, who ruled… |
Christopher Adams |
| 8 |
Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably purchased… |
Christopher Adams |
| 9 |
Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged… |
Hannah Morrell |
| 10 |
Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost… |
Nouran Koriem |
