All Day
BREXIT: A RURAL PERSPECTIVE
Over the last three years, MERL staff have been travelling the length and breadth of the England talking to people about their lives in the countryside. During our conversations, Brexit and the impact of European Union membership on rural life has been one issue raised by some of our interviewees both before and after Britain’s […]
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SEMINAR SERIES: RURAL RIDERS AND RADICALS
A series of lunchtime talks organised by the Department of English Literature and the Museum of English Rural Life, in celebration of their ongoing collaborations. Events in the series feature (alternately) writers with a national profile, and academic authors showcasing new and exciting research. 18 January - Alexandra Harris - The marsh and the visitor […]
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THE WILD OTHER: ON LANDSCAPE AND GRIEF – Clover Stroud
18 January: Clover Stroud, ‘The Wild Other: On Landscape and Grief’ At this reading Clover will read extracts from The Wild Other, her confessional memoir about the role horses and the landscape of Oxfordshire have played in managing trauma in her life. She will talk about the riding accident, and subsequent profound brain damage, that her […]
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