This is not a time for celebration. The death of Margaret Thatcher is nothing more than a salient reminder of how Britain got into the mess that we are in today… The only real antidote to cynicism is activism. Don’t celebrate - organise!
The Modernist Party began as a teaching idea as Dr Kate McLoughlin was looking for a way to introduce students to Modernist literature – a notoriously difficult, though richly rewarding, set of works by writers such as Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce.
The latest on the progress of an AHRC-funded project bringing works and documentation from the past three Text Festivals into a comprehensive archive. This post considers what can be learnt from the Whitechapel Gallery Archive
Ungoogleability increasingly means privacy, according to this feature from BBC News.
Vomit, body odour, mental health issues, complaints about little kids audibly enjoying themselves for half an hour a week, the challenge of explaining to someone why they owe a three-figure fine. And dealing with violence. It’s all here, folks. This is how it is.
“Information is a tool used and abused by the state and the intellectual class to reinforce agendas and to encourage a certain world view amongst its citizenry. The media itself plays a critical role in reinforcing these agendas.”
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Every discussion of libraries in the age of austerity always includes at least one blowhard who opines, “What do we need libraries for? We’ve got the Internet now!” Facepalm.
You probably know that Google’s site: operator lets you restrict results to a site or domain. But Google’s site: operator is a lot more flexiblel than you may realise. This post explains how to use asterisks to refine your results in some unexpected ways.
