Erik Wade tells us about the global origins of the ideas of sex and race in early English literature and language. We hear about Alfred the Great and his search for 'books most needful to know', and the need to work across text and images to understand th

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Klara and the Sun, the eighth novel by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, was published in March 2021. Ishiguro is well-known for the combination of a subtle, understated style of narration, often delivered by unreliable and compromised narrators, with d

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In this film we celebrate Catherine Fletcher's new book, The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance. Catherine also talks to us about the opportunities and challenges of writing for the public as an academic, and we discu

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Rachel Mesch has recently published her new book, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France, and Dustin Friedman has recently published Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self. In this film, we bring the two of the

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Bodie Ashton tells us about the nineteenth-century formation of Germany as country and concept, exploring issues such as work, communal ritual, religious belief, language and dialect, and the Brothers Grimm and their role in forming a German brand of folk

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Reading Greek Tragedy Online started in response to the UK lockdown and is a long-lost twin of A Bit Lit! In this film, Paul O’Mahony speaks to the actor Evelyn Miller and the classics professor Joel Christensen about bringing actors and academics togethe

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Jeffrey Wilson gets to turn the tables on Andy Kesson and asks him about his public-facing work, in particular Before Shakespeare and A Bit Lit. Jeff and Andy discuss the art of collaboration, what public audiences and creative practitioners can bring to

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Derek Dunne, Tom Harrison and Paul Salzman discuss Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.

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Mathew Lyons puts the current lockdown into historical perspectives, and suggests that ‘though we are separated by space, we aren’t necessarily separated by time’.

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Becky Yearling and Tom Harrison discuss early modern satire, a popular genre for the stage and page which achieved its greatest notoriety in the 1590s, when the Bishops’ Ban resulted in the censoring and burning of satirical texts. Becky and Tom look in p

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