Reading is such a powerful tool for transformation! This report is even more relevant now as so many teenagers rebuild after covid or struggle to escape their screens - reading for pleasure can offer them that positive future, gifting them the power of words.

‼️ 🚨Are you considering studying Law at Cambridge? 🚨‼️ We're hosting our FACULTY OPEN DAY on 5 July. Come learn about studying a Law degree at Cambridge University - one of the finest law schools in the world. More info and registration here: law.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2…

The power of literature and its cultural impact - an age-old debate and one that re-emerges in every age

You don't need a keyboard or a pen to write anymore, but this doesn't mean kids can skip handwriting lessons. ✍️ As experts from Deakin University write, handwriting develops fine motor skills, helps with memory + wellbeing – it's not just about forming letters. bit.ly/448MhLZ

'In June, when the jewel climbs up highest in the year into the heavens, brightest of stars... At that time the fairest of lights likes to gaze longer upon the earth.' Two Anglo-Saxon descriptions of the summer solstice: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/06/se-len…

The report is the largest study of its kind and followed the career destinations of over 9,000 Oxford humanities graduates, combined with in-depth interviews with alumni, students and employers: ox.ac.uk/news/2023-06-2…

The Speaking Tree In an Anglo-Saxon poem, a tree becomes the meeting place of horror and joy. Eleanor Parker plough.com/en/topics/cult…

We are delighted that UCL UCL Anthropology will join us at London Anthropology Day 2023 at the British Museum. Learn about contemporary anthropologies in their workshop with Dan N (formerly A.)! Find out more at: londonanthropologyday.co.uk 📚

Alan Dean Foster, who has adapted the likes of Alien and Star Wars for the page, explains the highly specific art of transforming sci-fi epics into page-turners lwlies.com/interviews/ala…

‘Few devices are more common in his work than irony, paradox, inversion, chiasmus and antithesis. It is as though the ruses and contradictions of history have smuggled themselves into his way of writing.’ Terry Eagleton on Marx’s style: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Listen to this episode here: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v… Seamus Perry and Mark Ford on Gerard Manley Hopkins as ‘Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest’.

July 3 – Franz Kafka's birthday. There is hope, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope, just not for us.

Applying to #Cambridge or #Oxford?✍️🧬 Join Newnham's Virtual Interview Workshops to hear advice from our Admissions Tutor & current students! Nov 13th 17:30: #STEM Nov 14th 17:30: #Humanities Register here👉cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6h… #UCAS #Y13 #Uni #Applications #Oxbridge

'Collins’s best characters are fabricated, with consummate skill, before our eyes; in Dickens’s greatest figures we see no process or calculation… Dickens’s characters are real because there is no one like them; Collins’s because they are so painstakingly coherent and lifelike.'

8 November 1623: The #FirstFolio went on sale, following its registration at The Worshipful Company of Stationers. 8 November 2023: 400 years on, we celebrate its legacy today. Because without it, we would have lost 18 of Shakespeare's plays including #Macbeth and more 📚

Drop Everything and Read (poetry edition) - reading is good for your mental health...

#DropEverythingAndRead week - it is important to find the right space to read...

‘Dear little Hardy’, as Elizabeth Bishop called him

Kurt Vonnegut, “Creative Writing 101”

📢We're delighted to announce today the cinema release of MACBETH starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo which is currently playing to sold out houses in the West End. The production will be screened in cinemas across the UK, US, Australia and internationally from 5 February 2025.