The relevance of studying earlier periods of English literature can be a hard sell to students, both in terms of content and the skills they will develop in the process. And yet, as the ‘Digital Thomas Nashe’ exhibition demonstrates, not only can we draw clear parallels between the turbulence experienced by young Elizabethans as by…
We were very pleased to contribute to this article, published in The Times on 1 December 2023. Three of our members contributed to the article, in which Sian Griffiths explores the impact of using phonics to teach reading on young people’s desire to read for pleasure, and the ways in which the narrow focus of…
48% of the reach and impact produced in English between 2014 and 2020 was judged 4*, by far the best result in the Arts and Humanities, and an outcome that belongs to all departments, large and small, across the 4 nations of the UK. With this new series of Speaking for English 2023 the English…
