Dr Tony Shaw

I first learned of the existence of the poet John Cullen from the Bottesford Living History Project here . He was born in Newport, Cou...

Ann Taylor (1782–1866) and her sister Jane (1783–24) were writers of children's poetry, and the representation above is by their fa...

I've only just come across the children's poetry of Rose Fyleman (1877–1957), but this relatively recent publication (Nottingham...

When Delia and Joel are talking about the absence of words to express subtleties, Joel regrets that there's only one word to describe...

The Arkwright Building of the the former Nottingham University College (later to become the University of Nottingham) on the corner of Sout...

Elements of the Southern Gothic are plentiful in Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions . Charlotte says of her grotesquely obese mother: ...

'HERE ON THIS SITE STOOD THE BIRTH -PLACE OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE POET – – BORN MARCH 31ST 1785 DIED AT CAMBRIDGE OCT 19TH 1806...

The plaque on the Express Offices, Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham, tells most of the story: 'Commemorating the Centenary of C...

Not far from J. M. Barrie's old lodgings on Birkland Avenue is the pub the Gooseberry Bush on Peel Street: an acknowledgement that ...

Shortly after earning an MA from the University of Edinburgh, J. M. Barrie (1860–37) found a brief post as a journalist with the Nottingh...

The grave of the mathematical physicist George Green (1793–1841), whose influential work An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Anal...

My biography of the eccentric artist and unsuccessful writer Karl Salsbury Wood (1888–1958)* is here , and it gives a brief mention of th...

This is the story of Macon Leary, whose wife Sarah leaves him not very long after their son Ethan has been shot through the head for no ...

Nicholas Philibert believes in making cinema out of everyday things, the apparently banal, and he sees the classroom as an ideal way to...

Although she admits that she's simplifying, Debra Granik sees the traditional movie story as often having the shape of the letter V – th...

The D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. ' BIRTHPLACE OF D. H. LAWRENCE BORN SEPT. 11TH. 1885 DIE...