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Humanities news
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Alumni Summer Reunion Event a real hit!
Saturday 22 June saw the first ever Summer Alumni Reunion take place at the College Lane campus in Hatfield.
24 June 2019
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Winner of National Poetry Award launches free Single Poem Prize to encourage voices from lower income backgrounds
The University of Hertfordshire’s Poetry Hub has today launched its 2019 Single Poem Prize following the success of the inaugural award last year.
11 June 2019
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University of Hertfordshire collaborates on new production of suffragette play
A forgotten 1913 play, Jane Clegg, which explores themes of female empowerment, gender politics and fraud will receive a new production from Tuesday 23 April at London’s Finborough Theatre in collaboration with Dr Andrew Maunder.
18 April 2019
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Researchers hunt for 17th century ‘witch bottles’
A team of archaeologists and historians from MOLA and the University of Hertfordshire are calling on people who may have discovered 17th century ‘witch bottles’ during restoration work or know of examples curated at their places of work, to come forward.
18 April 2019
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King Arthur rises in Britain’s hour of need as new folklore course launches
British myths, legends and magic are the subject of a new MA in Folklore Studies to be launched by the University of Hertfordshire this autumn, reawakening interest in the nation’s rich cultural heritage and customs.
16 April 2019
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Wayne Holloway-Smith wins the National Poetry Competition for ‘The posh mums are boxing in the square’
The winner of the 2018 National Poetry Competition has been announced as Wayne Holloway-Smith, lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire, with his poem ‘The posh mums are boxing in the square’.
1 April 2019
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Alumnus helps victims of tsunamis, earthquakes, flash floods and landslides across Indonesia
Khaled Hassan, BA (Hons) English Language & Communication with Journalism - 2007, has spent the past few months risking his life volunteering in natural disaster zones across Indonesia - delivering tents, food, bedding and medicine to desperate survivors of tsunamis, earthquakes, flash floods and landslides.
28 March 2019
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Polidori’s Bloodsucking Progeny: Scholars gather to celebrate 200 years of vampire fiction
To mark the bi-centenary of the publication of John Polidori’s gothic tale The Vampyre, academics from across the world are gathering at the Open Minds, Open Graves Symposium for the bicentenary of The Vampyre to celebrate how the novella founded the modern tradition of vampire fiction that continues to hold readers in thrall today.
26 March 2019