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Posts by Sunita Tailor

Dementia Day-to-Day

This blog post was written by Dr Kevin Harvey who tells us about the launch of his new initiative, Dementia Day-to-Day, which is a new blogging platform run jointly with the Institute of Mental Health. For a while now, I’ve been working on helping to put together a new blogging platform called Dementia Day-to-Day, which will …

Radhika’s Top 5 Autumnal Writers 2015

This blog post was written by final year American Studies and English student, Radhika Chond from the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies. To get you in the spirit for university and the world of academia… Reading lists are out and you may be faced with a waterfall of new material to sink into. I’ve got …

A Fish Out of Water!

This blog post was written by third year English and Philosophy student, Rishi Davda from the School of English. Wells Fargo Bank!… Never heard of it? Neither had I, until I was lucky enough to carry out a work placement at, what I later found out was the world’s largest bank. It seemed strange to …

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Banned Books Week

This blog post was written by final year American Studies and English student, Radhika Chond from the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies. The last week of September/early October has recently been recognised as Banned Books week and so avid readers took the chance to celebrate the fREADom to read by sinking into one of these forbidden …

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Summer in Nottingham

This blog post was written by final year English student, Una Kunhya from the School of English. Firstly I would like to wish everyone a happy new academic year and hope you all had a wonderful Summer holidays. When the final trip to Ocean the local club (more commonly known as GraduOcean) is over, everyone fills up …

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D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre Placement Diaries: Week Three

This is my last week as Festival of Culture Assistant here at D.H. Lawrence Heritage and I’m feeling pretty sad about leaving! It’s amazing to know you’re a part of such an interesting and diverse programme of events – and it feels even better when the events are well-attended and go as planned! This week …

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D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre Placement Diaries: Week Two

In a series of three diary entries, second year undergraduate student, Amy Wilcockson describes her placement with the D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre. The brand-new D.H. Lawrence Festival of Culture, organised by D.H. Lawrence Heritage, features over 40 diverse events and attractions and runs throughout August until the 19th September. I’ve been lucky enough to be …

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D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre Placement Diaries: Week One

In a series of three diary entries, second year undergraduate student, Amy Wilcockson describes her placement with the D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre. I was lucky enough to start a placement at one of Nottinghamshire’s premier tourist attractions – especially for those of us interested in or studying the Arts! D.H. Lawrence Heritage is based in …

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The Third & Final Year

For me, coming to back Nottingham this September has not been the smoothest of transitions – after spending 7 weeks travelling in South East Asia, the realisation that it’s not only inappropriate to wear bikini bottoms all the time, but that it is frankly impossible (due to the near on artic temperatures) came as a …

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Moving back…

As an inhabitant of the Pennines, nothing about moving back to Nottingham is as pleasing as the prospect of slightly better weather. After coming back from working in Spain as an au pair this Summer, I have never felt so fed up of the rain and grey skies of West Yorkshire. Not that I expected …

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