Archive for April, 2009

Oxford Reference Online

April 24, 2009

Did you know that the Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection is regularly updated. Recent updates of interest to English students would be the addition of:
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain 3rd ed., and
Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage 2nd ed.
In all, this database has 19 authoritative reference books on Literature alone, including:
The Oxford Companion to English [...]

Archive Feature

April 14, 2009

Do take a look at this week’s Chichester Observer (published 9th April) to see an article on the University Archives. The feature titled ‘Take a journey back in time and you’ll be captivated for hours’ highlights the Education collections, but the archive is also rich in material concerning Local History, Theology and English.

God’s Storytellers: from Milton to C.S.Lewis and Philip Pullman

April 9, 2009

Canon Dr Anthony Cane is giving a series of lectures at the Cathedral at 6.30pm on four Tuesday evenings: 28 April, 5, 12 and 19 May, followed by questions and discussion in the Vicar’s Hall at 6.30pm Tuesday 2 June.  The lectures will explore the impact of the Christian imagination on Western culture, using Milton’s Paradise Lost as [...]