How to pick housemates
February 16, 2015
This blog post was written by second year English student, Katie Randall from the School of English. Introductions are something I’ve never been very good at, but here goes. Readers my name is Katie Randall and I’m a second year English student from London. I’m a total coffee addict, travel freak and secret folk music enthusiast …
In Defence of ‘Commercial Fiction’
February 9, 2015
This blog post was written by first year English and Hispanic student, Sally Hirst from the School of English. I, like many other English students, have been prone to moments of literary snobbery in my life. I fully disdain the famed 50 Shades of Grey and its rise to popularity. However, much of this ‘mainstream fiction’ gets far …
New Year, New Reading List…
February 2, 2015
This blog post was written by MA English Literature student, Nicole Jones from the School of English. Hi, everyone – I’m Nicole, a postgraduate student on the English Literature MA. I was an undergraduate at Nottingham as well, which hopefully indicates how much I love being here- three years just wasn’t enough for me! In theory this …
I watch films as part of my degree… !
January 26, 2015
This blog post was written by second year English student, Una Kunhya from the School of English. It was 2pm, I was sat in bed in my jammies, and my housemates walked into my room and found me watching The Hunger Games. I should mention that this was on day 3 of the first week of autumn …
Living the Dream
January 5, 2015
This blog post was written by third year English and French student, Amelia Smith from the School of English. Every day I wake up with a smile as I think to myself, I’m here, I’m in France, I’m on my year abroad. As a student of French and English, I’m currently on my compulsory 3rd year abroad …
The Return
December 10, 2014
The New Wipers Times The Wipers Times was a renowned trench magazine, published by Nottingham’s Sherwood Foresters whilst fighting on the frontlines during the Great War, 1914-1918. Working with army families, the New Wipers Times is a ‘graphic anthology’ that gives a glimpse of army life today. In early 1916 the 12th Battalion of the …
English at May Fest
June 11, 2014
Mayfest, the University’s community open day, is always a highlight of the spring semester, and this year was no exception. With thousands of people from the local area enjoying the chance to explore campus, the School of English had prepared a few activities. Visitors could try their luck at matching Shakespeare quotations to the plays they came …
The Viking Berserker
March 11, 2014
This blog post was written by PhD student Ruarigh Dale, who has just submitted his PhD theory on this topic. The meaning of berserkr Publicity for the current Viking exhbition at the British Museum invites potential visitors to ‘go berserk’. The meaning of modern English ‘berserk(er)’ can be traced to the thirteenth-century Icelander Snorri Sturluson, …
Lakeside Literacy Volunteers: The David Ross Collection
March 10, 2014
This blog post was written by third year Creative Writing student Matthew Lewis Miller from the School of Education. A few months ago, Clare Harvey and Ruth Lewis-Jones rudely interrupted one of my valuable university morning classes to tell me about the Lakeside Literacy Volunteers. I am very glad that they did. Over the last …
The meaning of Ragnarok
February 19, 2014
The Jorvik Viking Centre is currently advertising its annual Viking Festival by claiming that Ragnarok will take place on the 22nd of February this year. Most people are familiar with Ragnarok as the cataclysmic event of Old Norse mythology in which the old gods and their world are destroyed when the forces of evil are …
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