Cambridge (and Oxford) are amazing places, where, for centuries, bastions of historic study and intellect walked the very same streets,...

(source: getty images) I read Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam A.H.H’ (1850), Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ (1865) and Swinburne’s ‘Ave Atque Vale’ (1868) to...

(source: getty images) When John Rieder argues that the real conflict of Prometheus Unbound  ‘lies not between Prometheus and Jupiter but...

(source: getty images) Throughout both Aurora Leigh and North and South , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Elizabeth Gaskell interrogate...

(source: getty images) (My research into this area is still undergoing - more recently I have done some work on Blake's 'Jerusalem' and...

(source: getty images) George Orwell wrote in 1940 that ‘no one’ had ‘written better about childhood’ or ‘shown the same power entering...

(source: getty images) There is a dislocation between Williams Barnes’s use of a dialect he didn’t himself use as schoolmaster and...

(source: getty images) When record label owner and producer Tony Wilson described Manchester as ‘the fertile breeding ground, field ready...

Ave atque vale to my welfare emails; here is my final stint in office, a florilegium of Lent Term’s belles-lettres.  Canto 1 Welcome to...

(source: getty images) Throughout Pamela , Samuel Richardson’s repeated use of the word ‘creature’ has been linked to the novel’s...

(source: getty images) Renunciation in Middlemarch  pivots against George Eliot’s belief in a need for self-sufficiency and necessary...

@acphotos As Nativity 2’s Angel Matthews said,  ‘wow, wow, wow; in other words, game over’. This was certainly the atmosphere following...

(source: getty images) To put it plainly, this is my most important scoop to date. Forget Babbitty Rabbitty: the time for jejune yarns is...

As promised at the end of my initial compilation ('Rapid Production of Satirical Copy'), I attach here my Michaelmas mesh of...

Here are my sport-inflected welfare bonne-bouches from Easter Term ‘24, as first seen by the readers of my weekly email among the...

Staying carbodydrated will make you run pasta; Come grain or shine, you will be faster. Each rice you run, each step you take,  Fuelling...

I recently caught up with Louise Shanahan, an Irish Olympic 800m runner, multiple-time Irish champion, and Cambridge PHD alumna, now...

(Wordsworth's grave at St Oswald's Churchyard, Grasmere). To celebrate old Bill’s birthday (because nobody else is going to), I thought I...

And by summer 2022, I mean summer 2022 minus forty-odd years, in accordance with my preferred music eras… 1. Våren - Edvard Grieg...

‘The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude’ - George Orwell. I’m sure the arts students...