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The Horses of Edward Muir: An Ecological Perspective

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 1 Apr 2019

By Eleanor Dye. Edward Muir wrote poetry at the beginning of the 20th Century, but his works contain powerful visions of ecological disaster that are almost prophetic of our situation today.

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Sanditon: the Austen Novel You Don’t Know About

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 25 Mar 2019

By Eleanor Dye. Sanditon is Austen’s unfinished novel from 1817. Now that the overlooked novel is making its way to our screens we take a look at why it deserves more credit.

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Can you ever forgive me? (2019)

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 18 Mar 201911 Mar 2019

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr. Melissa McCarthy’s name, since her standout appearance in the slap-stick comedy Bridesmaids in 2011, has grown synonymous with screwball performances and incredulous plots. But her new serious biopic may be one of the best performances of her career.

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Jean Rhys: Giving a voice to the women denied one

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 11 Mar 20199 Apr 2019

By Freya Thomas. Rhys’ position as a feminist writer may be debated but it cannot be denied that her novels craft strong and authentic voices for their female protagonists and give a narrative to those denied one on the basis of race and / or gender.

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Austen visits Durham

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 25 Feb 20194 Mar 2019

By Eleanor Dye. February saw two performances of ‘​Northanger Abbey​’ by Castle Theatre Company in Durham Castle that immersed the audience in the world of Austen.

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Crushed Chilli Gallery: A World of Colour

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 18 Feb 201915 Mar 2019

By Freya Thomas. Janet Rogers first began her glass-work as a hobby, when she bought a soldering iron to make a stained-glass window for her front door. Ten years on and she now runs the Crushed Chilli Gallery, a beautiful space in which she creates, displays and sells her daring and colourful art work.

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Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 11 Feb 2019

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr. Happiness is an elusive concept, a term used rather flippantly in daily conversations. It is seen as an “adult” goal and perhaps the most inescapable objective. However, as Hector shows, this idea is one to be challenged.

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  • Arts and Culture

Arthur Miller: A Timeless Playwright

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 4 Feb 2019

By Eleanor Dye. Miller was a controversial figure, yet in 2019, with a sensational series of four Arthur Miller plays due on the London stage, there seems to have been an overwhelming resurge of Miller’s popularity: more so, his status as the writer of American classics. What changed?

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Anglo Saxon Kingdoms: From Europe to Durham to London

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 28 Jan 201928 Jan 2019

By Freya Thomas. Heralded as a ‘once in a generation opportunity’, the British Library’s latest exhibition brings together an incredible collection of manuscripts and artefacts covering a span of six-hundred years.

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The Favourite (2019)

  • by johnschronicle
  • Posted on 21 Jan 201921 Jan 2019

By Lucy Mainwaring-Parr.
This is not your regular historical drama. It’s contorted in every element and cuttingly modern despite its backdrop of the early 18th century.

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