Monthly Archives: July 2012

Using Our Resources in Teaching

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

For the next fortnight, I am teaching English at one of the many summer schools which take place in Oxford and other university cities in the UK. In putting together my course for five 17-18 year olds who want to … Continue reading →

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Fiction is a Workout for your Brain

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

New research from Stanford University’s Professor Joshua Landy says that reading fiction is a sort of olympics for the mind, improving our reasoning, rational thought, and abstract reasoning. Read the full article here, and finally have an excuse for reading … Continue reading →

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Timon of Athens exhibit at the National Theatre

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

If you’re in London this August and want to learn a little more about the process of adapting Shakespeare for the stage, the National Theatre on London’s Southbank have a free exhibition about the making of their current production of William … Continue reading →

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Generating Joyce! Moving forward with Modernism!

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

Great news for Joyce enthusiasts and the Joyce-curious… Our Joyce section is growing; we now offer the following Joycean delights: A biography of Joyce A growing selection of short Joyce-related lectures A range of computerised visualisations of Joyce’s texts A … Continue reading →

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Wikicommons: Public Domain Images

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

You may have noticed in your delighted perusing of our delightful blog that many (or most) of our images are sourced from Wikicommons. So a short explanation: Wikicommons is a database of images, sounds, and videos (with the emphasis on … Continue reading →

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Join the Campaign: Digitising the Bodleian’s copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

Get involved with the Bodleian Library’s Sprint for Shakespeare Campaign, dedicated to generating the support and funds necessary for the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford to safely digitise their copy of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. While you … Continue reading →

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Schools Engagement at Cheney – Teachers’ Comments

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

As promised in my previous post, below are some brief comments from two of Cheney’s English teachers: Pat Tope, Leader of Key Stage 5, and Gary Snapper, a department teacher with a research interest in the transition from A-Level to … Continue reading →

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