'You ask a hundred sonnets of me – you That put pain not poetry upon my soul.' Iris Murdoch was a restless writer, never standing still, mining her past for inspiration. In a unique lecture by Miles Leeson we will explore her undiscovered poetry. 31 May. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-poems

There is nothing quite like summer in Cambridge. Join us in person for our summer course on Virginia Woolf and the Natural World, 2 to 7 August 2026. A rich programme of lectures, discussion, and excursions in Cambridge to places well known to Woolf. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

Some 17 years after her death, ten poetry notebooks were discovered in the attic of Iris Mudoch's home in Oxford. In a new lecture by Miles Leeson on 31 May we will look at this treasure trove of poems and learn to see another side of Murdoch. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-poems

A brilliant new course on families in Jane Austen. In an age when the role of the family was changing under the influence of British imperialism, the enlightenment, and industrialisation, how did Austen respond? Begins 11 April, fortnightly. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/austen-2026

Unable to travel to our summer course in Cambridge? Join us live online for an intensive five-day course from 9 to 13 July with leading Woolf scholars. We will spend a week immersed in the great writings and ideas of Virginia Woolf. buff.ly/KnCKzWh

Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Love starts this week, Thursday 19 March. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-26

My review of 'Virginia Woolf and Capitalism' has been published in the latest edition of The Space Between Journal! scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...

Virginia Woolf Summer Course in Cambridge, 2-7 August 2026. Discount for students, members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and for CAMcard holders. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

Powerful, intelligent and formally inventive, Terrance Hayes’ poems ask radical questions about culture, race, masculinity and global culture. Join our live online course and improve your skills of close reading across two sessions in April with Dr Mariah Whelan. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/hayes

Dorset Archives Trust leads a fundraising appeal to bring Archive of writer & LGBTQ+ pioneer Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) into public domain through creation of full catalogue- to open up new lines of enquiry & research into a literary treasure. www.dorsetarchivestrust.org/project/sylv...

🔦 We're shining a spotlight on the fantastic courses running during this summer's London Rare Books School at @senatehouselib.bsky.social 📖 Today, it's 'The Book Historian's Digital Toolkit', led by Dr Christopher Ohge. 🎟️ Book your place here: buff.ly/suZMw8t

American sonnets with Terrance Hayes #TeachLivingPoets

Next in our Woolf Season: Orlando’s Bedrooms (1928) with Claire Davison. Orlando's house contains 365 bedrooms, where unexpected changes occur and miracles happen. Live online lecture and seminar. Saturday 21 March 2026 18.00-20.00 British Time www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6/...

#WOMENSART blog: Elizabeth Catlett: Homage To My Black Sisters womensartblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/e... #WomensHistoryMonth

We hope you can get to a brilliant independent bookshop this weekend, if not our digital gift cards make a thoughtful last minute gift for Mother's Day, and every sale supports indie bookshops ❤️ uk.bookshop.org/gift_cards

Campaign launched to save Oxford’s oldest cinema

#OTD in 1879, Albert Einstein was born 🎉 Here he is enjoying St John’s College gardens, most likely during his Oxford lectureship in 1931. 📷 | St John’s College

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

🏆 🥇 * WIST wist.info/arendt-hanna... * Article 2024 Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness. by Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-...

Granta was saddened to hear of Jürgen Habermas’s death. He joined Granta for an interview in 2023 and, in honour of his life and work, this interview is now free to read. granta.com/europes-mist...

You can also find us on Substack. litcamb.substack.com

Iris Murdoch and the Natural World with Miles Leeson: live online course starts Sunday 15 March. Nearly sold out. #irismurdoch www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026

A semi-regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal is open to receiving proposals for special issues. If you have an idea for a topic connected to 19thC studies in the broadest sense, do get in touch. Please share! Details 👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci...

Fantastic fully funded PhD opportunity from @camglamresearch.bsky.social on the entomology of East Anglia and the associated archival records. Bugs'n'books. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Next in our Woolf Season: Orlando’s Bedrooms (1928) with Claire Davison. Orlando's house contains 365 bedrooms, where unexpected changes occur and miracles happen. Live online lecture and seminar. Saturday 21 March 2026 18.00-20.00 British Time www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6/...

Our courses celebrate many women writers: Jane Austen, the Brontes, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, Winifred Holtby, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf &c. #IWD www.literaturecambridge.co.uk

Lectures for Peace Thanks to Alison Hennegan for a moving lecture yesterday on the early writings of Siegfried Sassoon. We raised more than £500 for peace + refugee charities. Next in our Lectures for Peace: Trudi Tate on HD, Bid Me to Live, 7 June 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/peace

Celebrating International Women’s Day with our Head of Horticulture, Sally Pettit, featured in the ‘Woman Up’ March issue of Velvet Magazine 🌿 https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=fc786885-9d34-4e72-aed9-a3596d03b123 #InternationalWomensDay

Today on #IWD we honour Amy Levy, Jewish poet, novelist, essayist, and Cambridge Alumna. 🔎Levy's Archive at the UL: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc#IWD With thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.

This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting stories of women who helped shape movements for rights and equality, from early feminist writings to oral histories of activism. Read the blog post here: link.bl.uk/15n #TheBritishLibrary #InternationalWomensDay

Powerful, intelligent and formally inventive, Terrance Hayes’ poems ask radical questions about culture, race, masculinity and global culture. Join our live online course and improve your skills of close reading across two sessions in April with Dr Mariah Whelan. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/hayes

Some 17 years after her death, ten poetry notebooks were discovered in the attic of Iris Mudoch's home in Oxford. In a new lecture by Miles Leeson on 31 May we will look at this treasure trove of poems and learn to see another side of Murdoch. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-poems

The Betty Behrens Seminar series returns next Thursday, 26 Feb., at Clare Hall, Cambridge. Y.M. Choueiri, A. Wallace-Hadrill and E. Griffin will treat, in turn, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Suetonius and E.P. Thompson. @davidecadeddu.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

Next in our Lectures for Peace: Alison Hennegan on Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet? All income from our Lectures for Peace goes to peace and refugee charities. 7 March live online. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/peace

A brilliant new course on families in Jane Austen. In an age when the role of the family was changing under the influence of British imperialism, the enlightenment, and industrialisation, how did Austen respond? Begins 11 April, fortnightly. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/austen-2026

‘Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.’ Last few days to sign up for our Iris Murdoch and the Natural World course, which begins Sunday 15th March. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

As far as I’m concerned, it is Spring! 🌷🌷🌷 (Although I wouldn’t rule out snow in these parts within the next week 😊)

Call for Editors! The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor. Apply before 18:00, 13th March. @edinburghup.bsky.social @emilysharp.bsky.social

Virginia Woolf podcast with Karina Jakubowicz. Excellent new podcast with Ann Kennedy Smith on women in 19th and 20thC Cambridge. Free on our website. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/podcasts

'I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people’s expectations. I think music is the primary model – how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling …?' - Poet Terrance Hayes Join our live online course in April: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/hayes

Ever want to learn about Virginia Woolf and nature? You can -- either live online or in person. Sign up for "Virginia Woolf and the Natural World" online in July or in person in August with @litcamb.bsky.social wp.me/p5Yfi-60T #VirginiaWoolf

Starting in a fortnight with @litcamb.bsky.social - just two spaces left! www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026

Our first lecture in the series Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Love promises not to disappoint. Listen to Alison Hennegan speak about Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde, begins evening of Thursday 19th March. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-26

Lectures for Peace. Alison Hennegan, retired Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Alison will explore the early life and writings of Siegfried Sassoon. Sat 7 March, 6-8 pm UK time, live online. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/peace All income from this lecture goes to charities.

Odysseus the Storyteller: Live online course Don’t miss this brilliant live online course with Dr Jan Parker, University of Cambridge. Wednesdays, 6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time, 6 May to 20 May 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/odysseus #Odyssey

New course: An Introduction to Paradise Lost with Dr Fred Parker, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. A rare chance to discover Milton’s great poem. Fred Parker is an excellent lecturer. Do join us. Saturdays 10 Oct. and 17 Oct. 2026, 6.00-8.00 pm www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/milton

Virginia Woolf podcast with Karina Jakubowicz. The most recent episode is a most interesting discussion with the great art historian and biographer, Frances Spalding. Free on our website. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/podcasts

We're looking forward to 'Iris Murdoch and the Natural World', starting next month. Almost sold out, so be quick! We'll see you there. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026

Thanks to Karina Jakubowicz for a wonderful lecture yesterday in our Virginia Woolf Season. Next in our Season is Claire Davison on Orlando’s Bedrooms. Sat. 21 March, live online. Brilliant. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6/...