On Friday 29 March, second year History students went on a research trip to the Lancashire Record Office and then on to the Harris Museum and Gallery in Preston.
Wednesday 6 March 2019, 2 pm, W10 (Wilson Building) Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) Shakespeare’s language: New perspectives from corpus linguistics The study of Shakespeare’s language has not made full use of corpora and their related methods, despite the fact that corpus linguistics infuses the making of today’s dictionaries and grammars, and indeed much of historical […]
Wednesday 13 February, 2pm, M46 (Main Building) Dr Helen Faye West (University of Chester) How ‘Scouse’ are Ormskirk and Southport? Abstract Sociolinguistic studies that have focussed on identity have argued that speaker identity is accentuated in border regions due to speakers’ desire to project a strong sense of distinctiveness (Watt, Llamas, Docherty, Hall, & Nycz 2014, […]
MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism is a multimedia magazine dedicated to bringing expertise on racism to public debate. Issue 3 is out now, with podcasts, videos, and art. ErRS convenor Professor James Renton is the Academic Advisor at MONITOR, which is based at the European University Institute in Italy. The latest issue includes: ErRS convenor […]
In 2017, ErRS convenor Professor James Renton and Dr Ben Gidley (Birkbeck) published the paperback, Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story? (Palgrave Macmillan). In The Sociological Review, Professor Ivan Kalmar (Toronto) wrote of the book, “Meticulously scholarly yet accessible in language, it should be required reading for both specialists and the general public […]
5th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference Department of English, History and Creative Writing Tuesday 2 April 2019 This event is designed to celebrate the significant contribution that our postgraduates, from MA/MRes to PhD, make not only to the Department of English, History and Creative Writing but to Edge Hill University. This is an opportunity for our […]
‘HMP Lancaster and the Evolution of England’s Prisons, 1780-1850′ Allan Brodie, Senior Investigator, Historic England Tuesday 12th February 2019, 1pm. Edge Hill University, Main Building, Stanley 9. HMP Lancaster remained in use as a prison until 2011, in a bewildering range of buildings dating from the 11th and 12th centuries to the 19th century. Allan […]
As we say goodbye to 2018 – the 200th anniversary year of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – first-year student reporter Mathew Hunter reflects on his experiences studying the novel, and its legacy, at Edge Hill. 2018 marked the bicentenary of possibly the best-known Gothic novel of all time: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As an English Literature […]
Through the use of short fiction, a group of students from Edge Hill University showcased how influential West Lancashire women have helped shape the lives of women today.
Talented Doctor Who fan, Harry Draper, who is studying an MA in Creative Writing at Edge Hill has been announced as the winner of a prestigious competition for new writers. Inspired by his passion for The Doctor, Daleks and Time Lords, Harry has written a brand-new adventure about the sci-fi hero which has been turned […]