We are tremendously excited to announce the launch of our new website, containing all our previous films and launching with two brilliant new films: Ellie Kurttz on theatre photography and Alison Bomber on the voice.

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In honour of our new website, we are going to start a thread detailing the glories (?) already available there.

Stand back, please.

ABL1: Andy Kesson reflects on the first week of lockdown, asks if this situation is more normal than we think, and offers this new forum for our brains and imagination.
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ABL2: Emma Whipday, callan davies and Andy Kesson discuss A Bit Lit, saying how excited we are to learn from other people’s work, and calling for new ‘hope-making activities’ as lockdown locks us off.

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ABL3: in an event we will take pains to make sure never happens again, Andy Kesson goes outside and sort of to the pub, reflecting on what counts as literature, what gets included, what excluded. Also sunglasses.

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ABL4: our first guest, Suzannah Lipscomb, on the Tudor court, a French urban community and the strange confluences of sex, gender, religion and archival challenges they present. abitlit.co/conversations/…

ABL5: Brandi K. Adams on the canon, who belongs and on reading from the margins.

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ABL6: Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) on eighteenth-century disability pride, the importance of collaboration and the easy perils of founding your professional identity on your ability to refute and rubbish others.

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ABL7: medieval sex positivity, plague and revolution, or as we prefer to call them, Dr Eleanor Janega abitlit.co/history/eleano…