Daljit Nagra chooses poets Donne, Jennings, Joseph and Muir from the BBC's poetry archive.

Bringing together postgraduates from various disciplines, this year's conference focuses on bodies as sites of meaning-making & connection.

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Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.

Following the SGSAH Year 1 Residential in Stirling—and Burns Night—guest blogger Joshua MacRae leaps through the history of cèilidh dancing, his personal favourite dances, and what academics can le…

The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.

The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.

The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.

Once upon a time, according to an anonymous sixteenth-century Scots poem, there was an ogress who lived on the North Berwickshire coast, and she managed to scare even the king of fairies before marryi...

Mary was a prolific writer who enjoyed producing poetry.