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  1. Creative writing in the archive

    Creative writing in the archive

    Reclaiming the marginalised voices and imagined lives of eighteenth-century sex workers - Pay what you can £6 or £4

    Working in the spaces between history and fiction with the premise that 'if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you...

  2. QueerTales: women's lives reenacted

    QueerTales: women's lives reenacted

    Inspired by feminist and queer efforts, Queer Tales will showcase stories that interrogate dominant narratives on women and their diversity. In these complex...

  3. Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide
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    Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

    What makes life feel worth living, especially when it feels impossible to go on? Recent research into suicide prevention suggests that media reports about...

  4. The olive and the oak: a meeting of east and west through stories, dance and music

    The olive and the oak: a meeting of east and west through stories, dance and music

    Join Byre World on a moving and joyful journey across the Middle East through stories, poetry, music and dance. Featuring contributions from students and...

  5. East German Cinema and the Holocaust: Konrad Wolf 100

    East German Cinema and the Holocaust: Konrad Wolf 100

    Sterne (Stars), Konrad Wolf, 1959. In German with English subtitles. In Bulgaria in 1943 Wehrmacht sergeant Walter is stationed in a small city and supervises...

  6. Summoning The Spirits: Séances and Creative Practice in Britain, France and Beyond

    Summoning The Spirits: Séances and Creative Practice in Britain, France and Beyond

    In 1848, Maggie and Kate Fox, two teenage sisters from Hydesville, NY, played a prank on their parents which quickly sparked an international phenomenon. The...

  7. Translating Mothersland: Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language

    Translating Mothersland: Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language

    Shahzoda Samarqandi's novel Mothersland is rooted in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan. Written in Tajik, translated into Russian, and from there into...

  8. Byre World: Writing for Ukrainian children in wartime

    Byre World: Writing for Ukrainian children in wartime

    Hosted by Dr Emily Finer, Senior Lecturer from the School of Modern Languages. Ukrainian writers, illustrators and publishers have responded to the war waged by...

  9. Byre World 24/25: The Mothers of the Belgian Empire's Stolen Children

    Byre World 24/25: The Mothers of the Belgian Empire's Stolen Children

    During Belgium's colonisation of what are now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, mixed-'race' children born from relations...

  10. Byre World: The Holobiont Herbarium

    Byre World: The Holobiont Herbarium

    Hosted by Dr Damiano Benvegnu, from the School of Modern Languages Herbaria are collections of preserved biological specimens documenting the plants, algae, and...