Three FREE events at D.H. Lawrence Heritage for this year’s Festival of Humanities

By Carolyn Melbourne, D.H. Lawrence Heritage, Broxtowe Borough Council Writers go in and out of fashion but D.H. Lawrence remains relevant.  Described as ‘The prophet of the Midlands’, there is a visionary aspect to his writing; his attitudes to industry, capitalism, nature and of course sex were out of kilter for his own time but now …

D. H. Lawrence in Nottingham

By Dr Andrew Harrison, School of English A banner hanging on some buildings adjacent to Nottingham Train Station contains images of three prominent Nottingham authors beneath the headline: ‘Our Rebel Writers’. The writers in question are, of course, Lord Byron, D. H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe. All three men have tangible links to venues in …

Lawrence and Mexico

By Annalise Grice, School of English Many people are surprised to learn that D. H. Lawrence travelled all over the world during the course of his short life. New Mexico was particularly significant to Lawrence: in a 1928 essay he commemorated his time there as ‘the greatest experience from the outside world that I have …