by nwcdtp-admin | Oct 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m a writer but sometimes I get sick of writers. Then I hang out with visual artists. I like to listen to agonising about light, shade, colour, shape, framing etc. I feel they are indirectly talking to me about my own work. Recently, I found myself looking at the...
by nwcdtp-admin | Sep 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
This summer, thanks to funding from the NWCDTP and the British Association of Irish Studies, I spent a week in the archives at Trinity College Dublin, looking at the papers of J.M. Synge. I’ve been to the archives before on shorter visits, but there’s nothing like a...
by nwcdtp-admin | Jul 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
When we sign up for this journey we know we’ll be going off-track: veering into the unknown to try bring back something new, something that adds a little (even if that little is infinitesimal small in the astronomical scale of things) to what is already there....
by nwcdtp-admin | Jul 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
We had a chat with Pauline Hadaway and Sarah Feinstein, organisers of a new research community, ‘Common Ground’. Back in May 2016, Pauline and Sarah convened a one-day conference, partly funded by the NWCDTP, at the University of Manchester. In their own...
by nwcdtp-admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Q:What’s your PhD focused on? JH: The Kurt Schwitters Studentship, University of Cumbria, is focussed on an art practice-based exploration of selected aspects of Kurt Schwitters’ one-man art movement – Merz. It has an underlying theme of movement in...
by nwcdtp-admin | May 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
I recently started a placement at National Football Museum, UK. There’s no doubt about the centrality of football in any analysis of UK nationalism and constructions of national identity. The terrace chants of “two world wars and one world...
