An occasional blog concerned with the world of English Language and Literature. Featuring insights from examiners and past students as well as encouraging and inspiring everyone to pick up a book and get lost in a new world.
If you, like me, have felt a little bombarded by the hype around the Bayeux Tapestry - I mean, it has been sitting in a museum in Normandy for rather a long time - you may have wondered why I was going to see an entire show about it last night. It was a tantalising pitch: a retelling of the story inside the actual ruins of Hastings Castle. Live music, projections, actors you recognise from the screen and (rather wonderfully) you were invited to bring your own chair. I have
I have just returned from the 5 Star Summer School at Bullclough Art School: five days of painting on the moors, being taught by extraordinarily good artists and discovering that ‘loose and expressive’ does not mean ‘do whatever you like and give it an interesting title afterwards’.
Sophie Welsh
Jul 232 min read
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