University of Durham

In LondonFA worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a...

LBL 's work has been reprinted in The World Split Open, 1984, edited by Louise Bernikow ; it has been discussed by Margaret Willy (in Essays and Studies, 1952), and Anne Treneer (in...

After becoming known as a poet Fanthorpe held several writer-in-residence posts. The offer of a year as Arts Council writer in residence at St Martin's College , Lancaster in 1983 moved the hospital to give...

In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen , and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham for her scholarship.

She received another such degree, an Honorary DLitt from the University of Durham , in 1897.

She has spent two periods working at the Centre for Medical Humanities as a Fellow of Durham University 's Institute for Advanced Studies, the second of them in early 2012.

VL received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University : she added the degree to her signature on a letter to The Times on 14 November this year.

In 1974 she was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Leicester . Two more such degrees followed from Durham in 1979 and the University of Caen in France, 1987.

She has also held writer-in-residence positions at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham (as Northern Arts Literary Fellow, 1988-90), Queen's University, Belfast (1991-3 and again 1995-8), University College, Cork (1994), and the Stockholm University (Spring...

She received an Honorary DLitt from Durham University in 1950.

She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).

Five hundred people were detained under this law in its first six months. On release they could be re-arrested (as First was as she stood in a phone booth outside the prison, about to tell...

GS served for three years as president of English PEN . One month before her term was due to expire she resigned her presidency in order to draw attention to what she said was an...

ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...

This book is based on the three Newcastle /Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures for 2016, plus a lecture on Sylvia Plath given at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2013, and others in rhythm and sounds given at Durham University .