John Nicholson takes an epic trip through space and time in his first book of poetry, Airedale in Ancient Times. Amid riots and shootings in Bradford, The Bingley Byron also seems to have perfected th...

The Bingley Byron is the toast of the Bradford arts scene, but trouble’s brewing as he sets out his stall as an establishment rhymer. And back in the present, a descendant of the poet meets his likene...

Also known as The Orpheus of Bradford and The Airedale Poet, John Nicholson was a Methodist preacher and a tormented drinker, a rambler on Rombald’s Moor and a champion of industry, a conservative and...

How did workers envisage the environmental impacts of the first Industrial Revolution? Adam Bridgen explores how extractive industries gave rise to new ways of writing about the natural world and the…

Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

Explore this British artist’s dramatic ‘candlelight’ paintings.

The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University annually hosts a small workshop-format conference on an announced theme. The Call for Papers is usually published in the fall with a Jan...

Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in...

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical ...

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Animal Thinkers: Celebrating the Pioneers of Ethical Sensitivity to Animals. A film of the 2024 Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School in partnership with our…

Unique handwritten verses from a nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire poet – who died destitute and in relative obscurity despite royal patronage – have been saved for future generations by Cambridge Uni...