„British Movietone is arguably the world’s greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986.“ heißt es im Willkommensvideo auf dem YouTube-Kanal „British Movietone“: Discover British Movietone’s newsreel archive, which contains many of the world’s enduring images and is rich … Weiterlesen
„In 1920, a Dutch writer named Gerard Nolst Trenité published a poem in English titled The Chaos, designed to draw attention to English spelling and pronunciation — and all the confusion its absurdities have let loose upon the world. It … Weiterlesen
Deutschlandfunk Nova „Eine Stunde History“: „Wikinger – Der Überfall auf Lindisfarne 793“ Knapp 160 Jahre blüht das Kloster Lindisfarne friedlich und produktiv vor sich hin. Dann kommen Wikinger zum Plündern auf die Insel – mit diesem Überfall beginnt ihre Zeit. … Weiterlesen
New Englishes, New Methods There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the … Weiterlesen
Das frei zugängliche Portal der „Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century“ bietet zahlreiche Recherchemöglichkeiten: https://www.digitens.org/en/about-digitens.html Zu den zusätzlichen Materialien gehört auch eine Reihe von Podcasts. Das DIGIT.EN.S‑Team ist unter @digitensp bei Twitter zu finden.
Das Buch von Michelle McSweeney wurde am 11.4.2023 im New Books Network Podcast vorgestellt: „OK“ as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees). OK as an object, … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Are Books Still ‚Different‘? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age Caroline Koegler & Corinna Norrick-Rühlhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108982450 The famous 1962 precedent at the Restrictive Practices Court of the … Weiterlesen
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the New York Public Library, a list was published of the ten books that had been checked out the most in the history of the library — and most of these were children’s books, … Weiterlesen
„Singer and song collector Sam Lee traces a map in stories, folklore and song along England’s longest and most famous river, the Thames. Beginning at its underground source in the idyllic Gloucestershire countryside, Sam follows the Thames from a trickling … Weiterlesen
Visible English: graphic culture, scribal practice, and identity, c. 700 – c. 1550 Visible English recovers for the first time the experience of reading and writing the English language in the medieval period through the perspectives of littera pedagogy, the … Weiterlesen
„Jessica Mitford ist schon als Kind rebellisch – und bleibt es bis zu ihrem Tod am 23. Juli 1996. Statt in der starren Welt der britischen Aristokratie zu verharren, macht sie als gesellschaftskritische Autorin Karriere. „Von meinen Töchtern ist eine … Weiterlesen
The Modern American Poetry Site is devoted to the teaching and study of modern and contemporary American poetry with particular emphasis on original and excerpted scholarship about key poems, poets, and contexts. This criticism is accompanied by images, media, and … Weiterlesen
„Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are housed in genteel institutions across the UK and the world. They usually come with polite plaques. This week, 99pi is featuring an episode from the … Weiterlesen
Der Podcast – eine Kooperation von arte und Deutschlandfunk Kultur – ist im Mai 2023 gestartet:
The Hidden History of Coined Words How are words coined? That provides the focus of The Hidden History of Coined Words. Based on extensive research, its author, Ralph Keyes, has determined that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance … Weiterlesen