Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously. Click to read Independent Lit, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...

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Friends and neighbours have very kindly recorded versions of almost all of the poems by Jonathan Davidson from A Commonplace. And some lovely people have translated some of the poems into languages…

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

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An opportunity for an academic position as a Head of School (School of English) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

A toolkit designed to promote a positive body image among young people in Portsmouth has been launched.

The post holder will contribute high quality teaching to our suite of successful programmes which includes the BA in Digital Media and Communications launched on the University’s Edgbaston campus in S...

In a world where books have to vie with smartphones for attention, a brilliant ebook reader is more necessary than ever

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