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KM Today - December 20, 2009
A new blog developed by the Katherine Mansfield Society called KM Today will select daily extracts from Mansfield's letters and private writings and allow responses to be posted.  Each extract is annotated with instant ‘cloud tags’, enabling the reader to view at a glance who/what is being described.

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.

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