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Medical Humanities PhD at University of Leeds

The School of English and the Faculty of Medicine and Health at University of Leeds have come together to offer…

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Children and Young People

Dear parent: why your dyslexic child struggles with reading

On the Guardian's education blog today, Professor Maryanne Wolf explains, in a letter to parents of children with reading problems,…

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Calderstones

Empowerment Through Literacy: Literacy Shaping Futures conference

The 47th UKLA International Conference: Empowerment Through Literacy: Literacy Shaping Futures. The University of Chester Friday 15th to Sunday 17th…

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Children and Young People

Maryanne Wolf: Reading is not Natural

It seems like the most natural thing in the world for many of us now but a long while ago,…

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Research

Your Brain on Shakespeare

Ever wondered what rapper Snoop Dog, HBO's TV series The Wire, and Shakespeare have in common? Shakespeare, like rappers, and…

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Children and Young People

Reading in Practice MA 2011 enrolement

The Reader Organisation is involved in the development of the part-time MA degree in Reading in Practice, working with Professor…

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Calderstones

‘Care and Compassion?’

Today sees the publication of a report which concludes that the NHS is failing to provide even the most basic…

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Literature

BBC to finish Charles Dickens’s “Edwin Drood”

Writer Gwyneth Hughes has completed The Mystery of Edwin Drood for a BBC Four drama, to be screened later this…

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Calderstones

Reading in the Bath

Well, not quite reading in the bath but reading in Bath. On 1st March Angela Macmillan, Jane Davis and TRO…

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Calderstones

Call for support for people with dementia and their carers

A report published today by the Alzheimer’s Society calls for better support for people with dementia who are living at…

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Literature

Featured Poem: No Worst, There Is None by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Like everything in life, poetry comes in all shapes and sizes, forms and styles, dealing with almost every subject imaginable.…

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Calderstones

Romeo and Juliet at the Fire Station on film

Did you miss Romeo and Juliet at the Fire Station? Want to relive some of the memories? No idea what…

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