Events

Prof. Chis Loynes and Dr. Jamie Mcphie, lecturers at the University of Cumbria, discuss Swallows and Amazons and the Changing Place of Adventure in Society.

Dr. Martyn Hudson from Northumbria University and Jackie Haynes explore Kurt Schwitters and his Cultural Landscapes.

Prof. Andrew Gibson from Royal Holloway at the University of London explores 'And the Rock is Alive in Our Bone’: History and Geology in Norman Nicholson’s Prose and Poetry of the Cumbrian Coast.

University of Cumbria's Prof. Mark Wilson and Aaron Tan discuss Li Yuan-Chia in Cumbria.

University of Cumbria's Dr. Paul Ferguson explores Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visions of the Lake District in Text and Film.

University of Cumbria's very own Dr. Penny Bradshaw explores ‘Taken at the Flood’: Deluge, Destruction and ‘Dunkirk grit’ in Twenty-First-Century Cumbrian Literature.

Published poets Polly Atkin and Kate Davis deliver Writing Cumbria Now: A Reading & Conversation with Two Cumbrian Poets.