University Architecture, Strategic Planning, and QR: part 1 of Speaking for English Studies in UK Higher Education 19 March 2021 A series of workshops aimed at building capacity within the discipline for leadership and and influence The English Association, University English and the Institute for English Studies are co-hosting a new series of workshops in…
Thinking Loneliness 15 April 2021 Thinking Loneliness is the sixth event in our series of The English Association’s special interest group on Loneliness and Technology. What is the relationship between loneliness and the history of thought? How have thinkers thought about loneliness through time? The reinvention of aesthetics in eighteenth-century Europe saw an influential upheaval…
Motherhood’s Lonely States 18 March 2021 Motherhood’s Lonely States is the third event in our series of The English Association’s special interest group on Loneliness and Technology. Motherhood is a paradoxical state: mothers are hugely in demand, and often rarely have time for themselves – the time of motherhood to borrow the title of Lisa…
The Empathy Effect: Teaching Literature about the World Wars and the Shoah.
The Empathy Effect: Teaching Literature about the World Wars and the Shoah.
AQA GCSE English Literature Modern Texts and Poetry: Love and Relationships Commentaries on selected texts
AQA GCSE English Literature Modern Texts and Poetry: Love and Relationships Commentaries on selected texts
Marcus Sedgwick Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson I think this is one of those books that people underestimate, either because they’ve forgotten they’ve read it, or never have. Maybe there’s too much Disney in people’s memories of it. The original book is powerful, dark, compelling and sinister and I love it. In the Night Kitchen by…
Margaret Mallett last interviewed Marcia for an article entitled ‘Marcia Williams’ books for children: classic retellings and innovative information picturebooks’ published in English 4-11 Number 33, Summer 2008. Marcia’s books cover a particularly rich range of subjects and genres and are greatly valued by teachers and children. This interview is to catch up with Marcia’s…