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Writers’ Retreat with Chad McDonald

Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester

In-person only in GE 2.06. Writers’ Retreats give PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet, structured, and supportive atmosphere. The retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. You will need to arrive ‘ready to […]

Amelia Edwards’s Ghost Stories and Dark Tourism with Emma Liggins

An exploration of the lesser-known but fascinating nineteenth-century author Amelia Edwards. Amelia Edwards was a popular and unconventional British writer of ghost stories, murder mysteries and novels in the mid-Victorian period. She was also iconic for her celebrated work in Ancient Egypt, becoming one of the first female Egyptologists and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund […]

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Ann Radcliffe, St Albans Abbey and the Gothic

Follow in the footsteps of Romantic-era poet and Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), whose St Alban’s Abbey; A Metrical Romance (1826) brings to life the opening battle of the Wars of the Roses at  St Albans in 1455. Join Dr Elizabeth Bobbitt, Professor Dale Townshend and award-winning writer Rosie Garland (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature) for […]