Reading is a very complex word
Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway University of London) Reading is a very complex word. In educational discourse, it’s used in three ways which are overlapping but can, irritatingly, work against each…
What Next? What Now? – Some Ideas for Reading and Taking Steps
What Next? What Now? – Some Ideas for Reading and Taking Steps By Ralph Pite (ralph.pite@bristol.ac.uk) Here are… Five Top Sixes (and a Last Hurrah) I hope they may…
Listening to the natural world and hearing how it used to sound.
Listening to the natural world and hearing how it used to sound. By Francesca Mackenney and Jamie Castell The negative effects of noise on mental as well as physical…
Literature and the Industrial Revolution
Eco-anxiety is connected to feelings of isolation: not only a sense of disconnect from the vanishing natural world but also in terms of time. The future seems less and…
IMAGINING THE NATURAL WORLD
By Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP and, since 2025, the first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Sussex, says why English…
Rewilding and / or Farming
By Hannah Green Environmentalism focussed to start with on wilderness – on protecting areas still untouched by human activity. That was always questionable: describing somewhere as ‘untouched’ is a…
Kite-flying in the Anthropocene
By Michael Malay Michael Malay’s Late Light won the Wainwright Prize in 2024. Here, Michael introduces this book ‘about falling in love with vanishing things’: Instagram And…
Teaching It – 1: English Is A Gift
Teaching It – 1: English Is A Gift Sarah Dukes, English teacher at The Chase School, Malvern, Worcestershire Sarah Dukes is an English teacher at The Chase School,…
The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach
The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach Dr Rachel Murray, Literature and the Environment (University of Bristol) Something that makes English studies distinctive is…
‘Voices of the Future’ – teaching on treescapes
‘Voices of the Future’ – teaching on treescapes Dr David Cooper & Professor Kate Pahl, Place Writing (Manchester Metropolitan University) It’s widely recognised how important trees are, not only globally…