Featuring essays by Dr Katherine Greenwood, Merlin Gable, Graham MacPhee, Joe Williams, Robin Harriott, and Nick Stevenson, this year's issue of Key Words is out soon. Read the introduction on our blog and join the society to get your copy... raymondwilliams.co.uk/2023/12/11/key…

Cannot recommend this lecture by Raymond Williams called Ecology and the Labour Movement (1984), enough. It is still highly relevant to struggles we face today. "This is a social order which is going to reproduce poverty inside growth" raymondwilliams.co.uk/2020/09/01/par…

There's less than a week to get proposals in for this year's issue of our journal, Key Words. If you're interested, check out the open call...

The deadline for the 'Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism' open call for papers is today...

New issue of 'Key Words' has arrived! Copies are being sent to members this week. It's a collection of essays originally given as papers at our Raymond Williams Centenary Conference back in 2022. You can read the introduction on the society's website... raymondwilliams.co.uk/2023/12/11/key…

A real pleasure to have a paper on C. B. Cox and A. E. Dyson’s ‘expanding élite’ and their attempts to democratise literary culture in the latest issue of Key Words, now available in stealth mode black. The introduction’s free to read on the Raymond Williams website. Check it out

Excited to see my article 'A Common Countryside: Rewriting the English Rural in Common People' in print! NorthEnglishes New Writing North #CommonPeople

Wrote a book review on Henri Lefebvre’s “On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography” in this great collection of writings relating to Raymond Williams’ work. Check it out along with the rest of the issue @AdamDavidMorton Stuart Elden (@stuartelden.bsky.social) Dr Kate Spowage

One of four fabulous reviews including those by Kevin Matthew Jones @cathfeely and Paul Long (Monash) - thanks all! Some really exciting essays in this issue of KW, I'm delighted to have been involved as one of the newest members of the editorial board!

Deadline for submissions to our relaunched postgraduate essay prize is tomorrow...

New book by our brilliant reviews editor...

Just published on our blog: read Alexandrina Vanke discuss her new book and how it explores one of Williams's most enduring concepts... raymondwilliams.co.uk/2024/03/27/str…

We’re delighted to announce that the 2024 winner of the Simon Dentith Memorial Prize, our postgrad essay competition, is Hannah Green with the essay ‘Mortgaged to the Grasping Soil: Land and Labour in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas’. Congratulations Hannah! raymondwilliams.co.uk/2024/05/09/ess…

This year's Raymond Williams Society Lecture takes place on 12th March in Manchester. Benjamin Kohlmann will be discussing 'World Literature and the Work of Revolution: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman, 1820-2020'. More details on our website... raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/09/ray…

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/ray….

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Just a few weeks left to submit your essay for our PG essay prize! Please share widely.

We are delighted to announce two winners of the 2025 Simon Dentith Memorial Prize, the Society’s postgraduate essay competition. First prize goes to Friederike Sachs. Second prize goes to Alexander Curtis. Read more about the winners here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/05/01/ess…

Register for a two-day conference taking place at MMU on 19th-20th June 2025: schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/neither…. Co-organised by RWS Chair Dr David Wilkinson and other members of the Subcultures Network.