Reports and reviews of our various conferences and lectures. Also reviews of external events, such as Durham Book Festival.
Dante’s The Divine Comedy takes readers on a voyage through the afterlife, exploring themes of love, justice, resilience, and hope along the way. The exhibition Hell, Heaven and Hope, on display in Durham’s Palace […]
Andrew McMillan was Durham Book Festival poet laureate in 2017. He performs a new poem, ‘Coalfield Dementia’, inspired by how towns and villages across the North East have come to […]
We had a great time at Durham Book Festival 2017, and whether you attended in person or followed the conversation online, we hope you did too. Remind yourself of some […]
Dante may have lived 700 years ago, but the epic poem he wrote, The Divine Comedy, lives on through later writers. Three speakers with expertise ranging from Romantic poetry to world literature […]
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Olive Schreiner. These five female authors defied social expectations and, according to Lyndall Gordon in her new book Outsiders, they “changed […]
