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Shakespeare Quartos Archive - December 20, 2009
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive has launched with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet. For the first time, all 32 existing quarto copies of the play held by UK and US institutions are freely available online in one place. The Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays.

First World War re-enactment in a Virtual World- November 16, 2009
Oxford's First World War Poetry Digital Archive project has launched an exhibition in SecondLife which is open to the public to visit. It contains stylised depictions of a training camp, trenches, a casualty clearing station, and an educational area. Most importantly throughout you can hear interviews with veterans, see images taken from the Poetry archive, hear poetry readings, and see the literature in its context.

Moving Manchester - October 19, 2009
The aim of the Moving Manchester: Mediating Marginalities project at Lancaster University is to investigate how the experience of migration has influenced creative writing in Manchester since 1960. The site contains an electronic catalogue of local creative writing since 1960 and a writer's gallery.

National Poetry Day - October 5, 2009
National Poetry Day is on the 8th October and the official website contains information about a variety of celebratory events and resources.  This year the theme is 'Heroes and Heroines'.  Amongst other things, there's a 'what's on' page, blogs from poets of all kinds, and a photo gallery of poems in public places.

Scottish Poetry Library - September 21, 2009
The website of the “Scottish Poetry Library” (SPL) allows serious students, regular readers, and casual browsers access to contemporary poetry written in Scotland - in Scots, Gaelic, or English – historic Scottish verse and poetry from most parts of the world.

Literature Network - August 24, 2009
This is the website of The Literature Network which connects the literature community the East Midlands. The Literature Network "maintains information resources for the literature community, organises networking and consultation events, supports the work and projects of leading literature practitioners and champions the valuable role of literature as a participatory art form".

A Vision of Britain through Time- August 8, 2009
A Vision of Britain through Time is a new website, giving access, often for the first time, to over two centuries’ worth of official documents, maps and travel stories showing how 15,000 UK places have changed. The changing story of Britain’s towns and villages can be explored in new depth online, and the website offers the largest collection of historical British travel writing on the web.

Visible Knowledge Project - June 22, 2009
The Visible Knowledge Project was a five-year collaborative effort to study the impact of technology on learning. The project involved staff in 22 institutions in the USA who not only experimented with incorporating new media technologies into their classrooms, but also drew on the scholarship of teaching and learning in order to document and reflect on their findings.

BBC Poetry Website - June 8, 2009
The BBC's poetry website complements its current season of poetry on TV and radio with a generous electronic anthology of popular poems, the opportunity to vote for 'Britain's favourite poet' and videos of poets and celebrities discussing and reading poetry. There is also a list of the new poems by major contemporary poets currently being broadcast every day on Radio 3.

Beyond the Phd - May 18, 2009
Beyond the Phd is a career resource for Arts and Humanities PhD researchers.
There are no prescribed solutions to career problems but you will find some thought provoking personal and professional perspectives to inspire  thinking  about the future beyond the PhD.

Poetry Library - April 20, 2009
The Poetry Library, at London's Southbank Centre, is the  most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain. Free to join for all members of the public, the library  is an excellent resource for all aspects of information on modern and contemporary poetry.

Culture 24 - April 6, 2009
Culture24 is a recently re-launched website providing information about museums, exhibitions and cultural venues across the UK. If you’re looking for a place to visit or resources to support your teaching, or just planning a day out, this is a good place to start.

Teaching the American Twenties - March 30, 2009
.. is a new website based on topics related to America in the 1920s. The site has been designed to complement the resources available at the Henry Ransom Humanities research centre at the University of Texas and includes digital facsimiles of manuscripts, texts, photographs, images and audio files. A valuable resource for teachers. Teaching the American Twenties is a new website based on topics related to America in the 1920s. The site has been designed to complement the resources available at the Henry Ransom Humanities research centre at the University of Texas and includes digital facsimiles of manuscripts, texts, photographs, images and audio files. A valuable resource for teachers.

The Rosetti Archive - March 16, 2009
The Rossetti Archive is a hypermedia (and searchable) archive that supports scholarship (and potentially teaching) about the work and contexts of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain.

Education in the Balance - February 23, 2009
A Report on the Academic Workforce in English is a new US report by the MLA and the Association of Departments of English. It documents the dramatic increase in the use of part-time and full-time non-tenure-track staff and the consequences of such employment practices for undergraduate education and for the future of tenured and tenure-track positions in English.

Robert Burns at the National Gallery of Scotland - January 19, 2009
Robert Burns at the National Library of Scotland. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in Alloway, Ayrshire, we are highlighting the National Library of Scotland’s pages.

Ode on a Grecian Urn - January 5, 2009
Ode on a Grecian Urn - The eleven contributors to this volume in the Romantic Circles Praxis series on seminal texts in Romantic literature each provide an account of how they teach this hypercanonic text.

John Milton - 400 year celebrations - December 15,, 2008
Celebrate the birth of John Milton on 9 December 1608 by visiting this beautifully-designed set of pages hosted by Christ's College, Cambridge, Milton's alma mater. Among the riches available are an impressive set of pages written by students, podcasts of lectures   by famous names and a complete podcast of Paradise Lost performed by members of the Cambridge English faculty.

Internet for Image Searching - November 24, 2008
Internet for Image Searching is a new, free online tutorial to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching. Frequent visitors may also remember the ever popular 'Internet for English' tutorial also produced by Intute: Arts and Humanities.

TED - November 10, 2008
TED – Technology, Entertainment, Design – is an annual conference bringing together ‘the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers’ who are challenged to give the talk of their lives for 18 minutes.  The best are made available on the TED website, include a section on the them ‘Words about words’.  An ideal lunchtime diversion….

Newsfilm Online - October 27, 2008
A century of news now available free to educators and learners! Newsfilm Online contains over 3,000 hours of historic news footage from ITN's archive division, ITN Source, has been made available to further and higher education institutions in the UK, giving educators and students cost-free access to a century of video material.

American Authors site - October 13, 2008
Donna Campbell’s American Authors site is a valuable resource and a useful jumping off point for other websites. While there are many gaps, this is clearly a site in progress, and Donna Campbell continues to work on it (see web update blog)

Alphabet of Illustrators - September 15, 2008
The Alphabet of Illustrators has been provided by the Culture Archive based in Brighton. The site offers a vast number of digital images of historical illustrations. Clicking on any name provides high quality images of scans from books and publications of the illustrator's work..

Excellence Gateway - September 1, 2008
Working towards excellence in Further Education, the Excellence Gateway aims to help transform delivery across the learning and skills sector by becoming the recognised web channel where practitioners at all levels can access high quality resources and information, inspire innovation and share best practice.

Shakespeare's words - August 18, 2008
Shakespeare's Words is the website version of David Crystal's book. The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 - July 28, 2008
.. is a fully searchable edition of one of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people. The Proceedings contain 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court between 1674 and 1913.  A collaboration between the Open University and the Universities of Hertfordshire and Sheffield, this project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Big Lottery Fund.

Publisher Lookup UK - July 14, 2008
Publisher Lookup UK enables you to source electronic formats of textbooks for students with disabilities more quickly and efficiently than existing processes allow.

Voicethread - June 23, 2008
A VoiceThread is an online media album which allows your students to make comments using voice, text, audio file or video onto anything you care to upload e.g. images, documents or video. Once you start browsing the examples on the site your imagination will be ignited!

VADS - June 9, 2008
VADS is the online resource for the visual arts. The website, which contains over 100,000 images free for educational use, has just been relaunched. You can browse the individual collections or search on specific terms, periods etc. A series of reusable learning modules contain educational pathways through selections of material as well. Definitely worth a look!

Language and Ecology Research Forum - May 5, 2008
The Language and Ecology Research Forum is dedicated to the analysis of language in an ecological context.  This website contains a journal, details of projects and people as well as a language and ecology module taught by  Arran Stibbe at Gloucestershire.

Kelly Writers House - April 28,, 2008
Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff and alumni at the University of Pennsylvania, the Kelly Writers House serves as a centre for writers of all kinds. We think you may be interested in their webcast archive featuring world famous writers from Susan Sontag to Grace Paley.

Kay E. Vandergrift's special interest page - March 17, 2008
..examines issues relating to literature for children and young adults. Part of the site acts as a guide for undergraduates new to the study of children's literature, suggesting areas of research and prompting questions students should seek to address. Other sections deal with pedagogic issues, such as how children's books are used in education.

Poetry Workshop - February 25, 2008
The Guardian's Poetry Workshop hosts a different poet every month. The poet sets an exercise then chooses the most interesting responses and offers an appraisal of them.

Life in Six Words - February 18, 2008
R4 Today’s ‘Life in Six Words’ Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s bet that he could write a complete story in just six words, Radio 4’s ‘Today’ Programme invited its listeners to write their life story in six words...

PALA - February 4, 2008
PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) is an international academic association for those who work in stylistics, poetics, and associated fields of language and linguistics. While some areas are password-protected, a lot of valuable material (including online proceedings) on stylistics and the language / literature borderland in general is publicly accessible.

A2A - January 21, 2008
The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.

Transition Tradition - January 7, 2008
Transition Tradition is an Online community, magazine and resource directory for creative students and graduates experiencing the transition between university and work.

The George Padmore Institute - December 3, 2007
The George Padmore Institute is an important resource for classroom activities relating to to the black community of Caribbean, African and Asian descent in Britain and continental Europe. The archives' holdings include papers and documents about the Caribbean Artists Movement, cultural activism & political action campaigns dating from the 1960s.

BFI Screenonline - October 8, 2007
The British Film Institute’s Screenonline website delivers a wealth of film and TV clips covering a wide variety of periods, people and places and  might support classroom teaching in  a number of ways.

OpenLearn - September 24, 2007
The OpenLearn website is an exciting new 'open courseware' initiative from the Open University. The website gives free access to a selection of course materials from the Open University. Currently, the Arts and History section has several relevant courses which,along with many others, provide ideas for all practitioners who are designing online courses.

OpenLearn - September 24, 2007
The OpenLearn website is an exciting new 'open courseware' initiative from the Open University. The website gives free access to a selection of course materials from the Open University. Currently, the Arts and History section has several relevant courses which,along with many others, provide ideas for all practitioners who are designing online courses.

Internet for English - New! - August 20, 2007
Intute has just released the long-awaited update of its popular Virtual Training suite series including Internet for English. This tutorial is designed to help students develop Internet research skills for their university or college work, and can be used by lecturers and librarians to support their courses.

Internet Text Archive - July 30, 2007
Founded in 1996, the Internet Text Archive is a non-profit organisation set up to provide open-access to a variety of electronic text resources (currently over 100,000 texts). You can browse the collection or alternatively read what's new from the collections team blog.

Eng-Zine - July 16, 2007
Eng-Zine is a collection of articles written for English students by English students at Brunel University about that thorny subject of what to do after an English degree.  It’s a great way of discovering how students and graduates have coped with work experience and finding their first job.

Renewals conference blog - July 9, 2007
The Renewals conference blog is the place to catch up on the discussions following our conference last week. Please feel free to leave comments and give us feedback!

Renewals conference website - July 2, 2007
The Renewals conference will undoubtedly be the best place to be this week for all the latest ideas, debate and discussion on teaching and learning in English studies in Higher Education.

Romantic Circles Pedagogies- June 18, 2007
Romantic Circles Pedagogies section offers resources for teachers and professors of Romantic Studies to help them design and use online materials for teaching. The site contains texts that may be downloaded, printed, and reworked for use in your classes.

Centre for Transcultural Writing & Research- June 4, 2007
The newly established Centre for Transcultural Writing & Research at Lancaster uses web technologies in innovative ways to develop cross-border collaboration and new modes of learning.

Voice of the Shuttle - May 28, 2007
Alan Liu's 'Voice of the Shuttle' (which has featured here before) is a an enormously rich resource for the teaching of literature and culture. Its resources extend from searchable archives to exemplary teaching materials and include suggestions and examples for e-learning.

PESL (Promoting Enhanced Student Learning)- May 14, 2007
PESL (Promoting Enhanced Student Learning) is Nottingham University's highly engaging teaching and learning website. There are practical case studies on a range of different learning & teaching methods and lots of short video clips on subjects such as 'Managing noise in the lecture room' & 'Using visual aids.'

Publishers Bindings Online- April 23, 2007
Publishers Bindings Online is a collection of digital images of book bindings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fully searchable, with an additional browse-by-subject facility, this resource contains a wealth of images charting the development of binding and illustration over the period 1815-1930. This North American resource also contains a number of adaptable teaching tools.

The Modern Word - April 2, 2007
The Modern Word is a web resource devoted to experimental and avant-garde twentieth century writers. It includes writers associated with modernism, surrealism, magical realism and postmodernism.

Planning & Designing Technology Rich Learning Spaces - March 19, 2007
If you are interested in technology and learning space design, a new infoKit from JISC infoNet provides a variety of new ideas backed up by an image gallery of new builds at institutions in the UK and elsewhere.

The Victorian Web - March 5, 2007
The Victorian web was originally designed as a resource to aid in the teaching of courses in Victorian literature. Nowadays it provides a comprehensive general overview of 19th century British literature and history.

W.H. Auden@Swarthmore - February 26, 2007
W.H. Auden@Swarthmore is a fascinating online exhibition devoted to the three year stint Auden (born 100 years ago on 24 February) spent teaching at Swarthmore in the 1940s. The website features vivid accounts of Auden's life on campus as well as downloadable files of Auden ephemera, college publications and memorabilia and the transcript of a Q&A session held on the occasion of the great man's return visit to Swarthmore in 1971.

ICT Methods Network - February 19, 2007
The AHRC funded ICT Methods Network is a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for humanties research. Their website contains information on a number of new technologies of interest including the Access Grid, Podcasting and RSS. They also provide funding for ICT related seminars, workshops etc.

A Million Penguins - February 05, 2007
.. is a first-of-a-kind experiment in creative writing and collaboration based on the wiki principle. For the next six weeks, anyone logging onto the site will be able to contribute to the novel in progress or edit the work already there. This experiment is definitely worth a look!

The Poetry Archive - January 15, 2007
The Poetry Archive is an informative and invaluable collection of poets reading their own work. It is now searchable by poet, poem, theme, and form.

Brain.HE - January 1, 2007
Brain.HE is a rich exploration of neurodiversity in HE, including video clips recorded by students with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, Asperger's, Tourette's and dyscalculia as well as teaching tips and learning strategies.

Book of the Month- December 18, 2006
Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department has a festive Book of the Month: a small Book of Hours produced in the Netherlands about 1460 portraying scenes from the Christmas story.

Alan Liu's Romantic Chronology- December 4, 2006
Alan Liu's Romantic Chronology provides a fascinating example of ways in which contextual material and information can be organised through a themed website.

Scholarship of Teaching: What's the problem? - November 20, 2006
Scholarship of Teaching: What's the problem? - In this online journal article Randy Bass, a professor of American Studies at Georgetown university - USA, presents his view of what 'scholarship of teaching' actually means.

Scots Language Centre - November 6, 2006
The Scots Language Centre site contains lots of
interesting information about Scots. You can read about the history of Scots and find out about the people that speak it today. Almost everything on the site is available in English too!

JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service - October 30, 2006
JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service provides generic advice and guidance on all aspects of plagiarism prevention and detection to institutions, academics and students.

ICT Guides - October 23 , 2006
ICT Guides - Information and Communications Technology for Arts and Humanities Researchers - This website helps arts and humanities researchers gain the skills they need by describing research methods that use ICT, and by providing links to training and tools.

NAtional Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) - October 16 , 2006
The NAtional Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) website provides a wealth of information. Although you will need to be a member to access all the resources on this site, a number of areas are usefully available to non-members. These include a growing directory of Creative Writing programmes in HE.

Lexicons of Early Modern English - September 30, 2006
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a new database from Ian Lancashire at the University of Toronto. Users can look up words in 156 dictionaries and other lexical works from early modern England.

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Electronic Canterbury Tales - September 18 , 2006
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Electronic Canterbury Tales - This website is a comprehensive guide to online texts, commentary, and resources for both teachers and students of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Modern American Poetry - September 11, 2006
Modern American Poetry - is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry. A number of course descriptions/reading lists etc are available in the Syllabi area. Worth a look.

The e-book library - August 21, 2006
The e-Book library at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, contains over 2100 publicly-accessible digital texts and images including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more. Many can be downloaded or linked to for educational use.

The Reader - August 14, 2006
The Reader is a literary magazine bringing books to life with recommendations and reviews of great literature from real readers.

BBC Accessibility Website - August 7, 2006
My Web My Way - “Do you need help in making the web easier to use? This BBC website explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you”

Intute: Arts and Humanities - July 24, 2006
Welcome to 'intute : arts and humanities' a refurbished JISC service from the Resource Discovery Network that combines the former Humbul and Artifact internet resource databases into one powerful new one.The service is free and provides access to the most useful web resources for research and education, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. It also offers a browseable database of resource reviews, email alerting, and online tutorials.

Writing in the Disciplines Project - July 17, 2006
The Writing in the Disciplines Project (which is based at Queen Mary, University of London) develops materials and discussion relating to writing as a medium of learning - rather than simply as a medium of assessment. The project spans a range of disciplines, but includes thought-provoking material in the English and Humanities domain (Select 'Subject Resource bank').

Old English Literature - A Hypertext coursepack - July 10 , 2006
Developed as part of an English Subject Centre project this simple-to-use online coursepack for Old English brings together some of the main 'set texts' in Old English used by UK universities. Each text has a running gloss with links to further notes, translations, images, explanatory articles, reading lists and discussion forums.

Survey of Reading Habits - July 03, 2006
- This National Literacy Strategy Trust report presents the findings of a survey of children and young people's reading habits. It considers the differences related to gender and whether or not pupils were receiving free school meals. It found that boys who receive free school meals seem to be at a double disadvantage in terms of their engagement in reading.

Crime culture - June 26, 2006
Crimeculture is an impressive web site dedicated to the academic study of crime in literature, film and popular culture. The site contains 8 sections including articles, an extensive bibliography, reading lists and an interesting section looking at different course designs within the genre. Well worth a look!

Internet Detective - June 19 , 2006
Back on the case the Internet Detective is a free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research. The tutorial is split into 5 sections and takes about an hour to complete. Colleagues who were using the previous version with their students will be pleased to see this timely update

Mark Phillipson - May 29, 2006
Mark Phillipson teaching online - is a collection of course websites from an assistant English professor at Bowdoin college in Maine. Many of the courses involve class weblogs and wiki-based student authoring. "Students keep pushing for more interactivity, often in ways I hadn't thought of yet", he comments. Take a moment to explore this site and be inspired!

wwwtools for education - May 22, 2006
wwwtools for education is a website which is designed to keep you informed and to save valuable time in tracking down information and resources on the World Wide Web. Each article is on a particular topic or issue related to Web-based teaching and learning. The articles take a skilled researcher between 10 and 20 hours to research and prepare.

Cyberspace, Hypertext and Critical Theory Web - May 15, 2006
The Cyberspace, Hypertext and Critical Theory Web is an extensive collection of interlinked materials across many academic disciplines, which consider the implications of digital technology. Cyberspace deals primarily with the virtual interactions made possible by networked computer systems, while critical theory analyses how these interactions effect communication, discourse and the development of ideas.

Time Management Resource - May 8, 2006
JISC Infonet have recently launched a useful Time Management Resource. The resource is designed to help users, whatever their roles, manage their time more effectively. It covers a wide range of subjects including using planning software, managing meetings, organising emails, and backing up information. The guide contains a lot of common sense tips, as well as downloadable templates etc. Well worth a look!

Teaching English - May 1, 2006
Teaching English is the British Council's teaching site. Don't run away with the idea that this is simply about TEFL. (And in any case teaching English as a second language has always been a great source of teaching ideas.) There are many areas of this site worth exploring.

Transliteracies Project - April 24, 2006
The Transliteracies Project - Established in 2005, the Transliteracies group includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering in the University of California system. The project has established working groups to study online reading from different perspectives; bring those groups into conjunction behind a shared technology development initiative; publish research and demonstration software; and train graduate students working at the intersections of the humanistic, social, and technological disciplines.

JORUM - April 10, 2006
JORUM is a free national collection of learning materials that is now live and available to all UK further and higher education institutions. The service is brand new and a key focus is to build a 'community for sharing' - As a Jorum user you are able to search, browse, preview, download, review, reuse and repurpose the learning materials within it. Your institution or project must register to use the service!

Scribbling Women - March 27, 2006
The Scribbling Women website provides access to a collection of audio dramatisations of plays and stories by leading American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with associated teaching materials. Resources include: biographies of the authors, summaries of their historical and literary contexts, suggestions for further reading, and lesson plans.

Internet Grammar - March 20, 2006
The freely available Internet Grammar is primarily aimed at university undergraduates with a good command of English but little knowledge of grammar. It contains a comprehensive online grammar with searchable index and glossary as well as a range of exercises.

Introduction to Modern Literary theory - March 13, 2006
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory aims to introduce undergraduates to key terms and ideas of major literary theories. The theories are described briefly and further references are given to secondary readings and links to relevant sites.

ELGG Learning landscape - February 27, 2006
ELGG learning landscape is a hybrid of weblogging, ePortfolios and social networking software. The idea is that this combination of features will provide an engaging environment for learners to create their own learning space and then connect to others, forming online communities of learning. Follow the link to ELGG resource to read more!

The European Library Webservice - February 20, 2006
The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.

The Moving Image Gateway - February 13, 2006
The Moving Image Gateway is produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council. It is a guide to moving image and sound resources on the web. The websites listed either provide guides to recommended moving image and sound resources, or deliver moving image and sound content suitable for educational use.

Humanities Ejournals - February 6, 2006
Humanities Ejournals - There are a growing number of online, freely available, peer-reviewed electronic journals for a wide range of humanities subjects. This page from Humbul brings together over 100 freely available, peer-reviewed ejournals in the Humanities.

Shakespeare Retold - January 30, 2006
The BBC's Shakespeare Interactive service enables you to view a scene and examine it from four different angles. There are opportunities to play with Shakespeare's language and deconstruct his texts. The site represents a fantastic example of the use of cutting edge multimedia for teaching.

Charles Dickens page - January 23, 2006
David Purdue's Charles Dickens page is a well-presented website, giving useful and up-to-dates links to all kinds of Dickens related resources, including excerpts from the works and Dickens in the news.

Walter Scott Digital Archive - January 16, 2006
The Walter Scott Digital Archive is an Edinburgh University Library online resource designed around the extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material held in Special Collections. The producers hope that in time this website will become the main source of information on the life and work of Sir Walter Scott on the web.

Britain in Print - December 19, 2005
The Britain in Print project will, for the first time, provide free access for all to information about the rich collections of early British books that are held in twenty-one of the nation's most important libraries.

The William Blake Archive - December 5, 2005
The William Blake archive is a comprehensive collection of books, drawings, paintings, and texts.

The Poetry Archive - November 28 , 2005
Launched on the 30th November 2005, the Poetry Archive is an online collection of poets reading their own work. It includes both contemporary English-language poets, and poets from the past. The website includes resources for teachers, students and an archive of children's poetry.

Edublogs - November 21, 2005
Have you been thinking about starting your own Blog? - edublogs.org is a non-profit adventure into providing free blogs and hosting for teachers, students, researchers, librarians, writers and other education professionals. You and your students can set up your new web presence in less than 5 minutes and start publishing!

Gaslight - November 14 , 2005
As well as being a discussion forum, Gaslight holds etexts of a wide range of detective, crime and ghost stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Authors include works by Walter Scott,  Rudyard Kipling and Kate Chopin as well as less readily available writers including Baroness Orczy, Arthur Morrison and Ernest Dowson. A useful resource for cash-strapped students.

English Accents & Dialects Collection & BBC Voices - November 7 , 2005
This week we present two websites focussing on the spoken word. The English Accents & Dialogues collection at the British Library contains nearly 700 recordings showing how we spoke and lived in the 20th century. The BBC voices website contains a wealth of materials on the spoken word and downloadable learning materials.

The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English - October 31, 2005
The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE) is a corpus of dialect speech from Tyneside in North-East England. The website gives an overview of the project along with a description of how it may be accessed.

World Wide Words - October 17 , 2005
World Wide Words is a website run by Michael Quinion (Oxford Dictionary of New Words). Ever wondered what 'spatterdashes' are used for? This extraordinary site offers a fascinating insight into the etymology of thousands of words as well as in-depth articles and a weekly email newsletter.

Project Gutenberg - October 10 , 2005
Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). The archive now contains 6267 texts.

The Duologue Project October 3, 2005
The Duologue Project website contains a wealth of tips and techniques for building English course websites within a Virtual Learning Environment. The site contains case studies, screenshots of teaching materials and research data on the effectiveness of the pedagogical strategies employed.

The Teaching Quality Information (TQI) website - September 26, 2005
The Teaching Quality Information (TQI) website brings together official information about the quality of higher education in the UK. The National Student Survey data is now available for each subject at each institution.

Skills4study - September 19, 2005
Skills4study is web resource from Palgrave that highlights many aspects of learning and study skills in a lively and interactive way. There is a lecturer area where teaching materials are available (signin reqrd) and a lit & lang specific area too!

Dictionary of the Scots Language - September 12, 2005
Dictionary of the Scots Language comprises electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND)

Literature at MIT - September 5, 2005
Literature at MIT forms part of the 'open courseware project' - making teaching materials available publicly. The courses and materials in the Literature area demonstrate a range of ideas including assessment methods beyond the traditional essay.

The Transatlantic 1790's - August 22, 2005
The Transatlantic 1790s is a site devoted to the literature and culture of the 1790s, primarily in Britain and the United States. The site includes a bibliography, Chronology and 6 projects.

Language & Style - August 8, 2005
Language & Style is a course website for first-year students at the university of Lancaster developed by Mick Short and Dawn Adams. The site includes an introductory video and numerous other features.

Access to Archives - July 25, 2005
Access to Archives (A2A) - The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.

The Voice of the Shuttle - July 11, 2005
Alan Liu's Santa Barbara based 'Voice of the Shuttle' has since 1995 presented a stupendous range of Humanities resources, including a diverse collection of teaching sites and materials. Truely a useful site to add to your reading lists.

The Poetry Kit - July 4, 2005
The Poetry Kit is a poetry writers resource site with listings including publishers, competitions, courses, funding, events, festivals and magazines. It also holds a Who's Who in Poetry and a listing of blogs and poets on the internet.

The European Library Web Service - June 27 , 2005
The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe.

Humbul Humanities Hub - June 20 , 2005
The English Studies collection of the Humbul Humanities hub provides a vast collection of searchable, hand-picked internet resources that provide a great starting point for creative teaching.

Skills for Access - June 7 , 2005
Skills for Access is a newly developed guide to creating multimedia for e-learning with articles, case studies and 'How to' guides.

Online Writing Lab - Purdue - May 30, 2005
Purdue's Online Writing Lab provides a family of websites offering materials and resources for students wishing to improve their writing and research skills.

Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech - May 23, 2005
The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) aims to include documents in all genres in all of the languages used in Scotland today.

Converse - the literature website - May 16, 2005
The Converse website is a collection of free multimedia resources, games and essays, to help teachers and students of English literature.

Proof - Creative writing journal - May 9, 2005
PROOF is a creative writing web journal from Sheffield Hallam, which includes multimedia art, poetry, short stories, music and video.

The Alliance of Literary Societies - April 25 , 2005
The Alliance of Literary Societies. A great place to start looking for information on anyone from H.E. Bates to Charles Lamb, from Harriet Martineau to H.G. Wells.

The Coleridge Way - April 18 , 2005
The Coleridge Way is a 36 mile walk in rural Somerset through the area that inspired much of this romantic poet's work.

The Dickens Project - April 11 , 2005
The Dickens Project website is devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and works of Charles Dickens.

Norton Anthology of English Literature - Companion website - April 4 , 2005
Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors, this extensive, freely accessible Web resource for The Norton Anthology of English Literature offers twenty-eight topics — four per period — for study and discussion.

The Companion to Chaucer website - March 21, 2005
The Oxford online companion to Chaucer (edited by Steve Ellis) provides a wealth of additional materials to supplement the book. The 'Additional materials' section in particular contains articles about teaching Chaucer in secondary and the HE sector both here and in the United States.

The Thomas Gray archive - March 14, 2005
The Thomas Gray Archive is an interactive hypermedia repository for the study of the life and works of British poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The site is divided into two sections: Primary texts and Materials. The materials section includes articles and resources on teaching.

BBC Arts - Books - March 7, 2005
The BBC Arts-Books site is packed with information offering profiles of authors, literary news, book reviews and genre sections as well as radio and TV programme information, a message board and an events calendar.

Stagework - February 28, 2005
Stagework is an award winning resource designed to make innovative theatre practice at the National Theatre and selected regional partners in England more widely available to new and existing audiences. It goes behind the scenes to unpack the complex process of making theatre performance for the general theatre-goer, the life-long learner, and curricular audiences.

The Poetry House - February 21, 2005
As well as featuring an online magazine of poetry features and reviews, The Poetry House is designed to be the most authoritative guide to information about poetry across the English-speaking world. Its coverage is both historical (from Old English to the present) and geographical, taking in all the world's major English-speaking areas.